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Willis Eschenbach
R. Leistenschneider
de Aus der Panik-Küche en From the panic laboratory fr De la marmite des alarmistes
Das umfassende EU FP7 Integrationsprojekt EPOCA (European Project on OCean Acidification) startete im Mai 2008.
Sein Ziel ist es, Wissenslücken zur Ozeanversauerung und deren Konsequenzen zu schließen.
Die Kooperation verbindet mehr als 100 Wissenschaftler von 27 Instituten aus neun Ländern.
Die Forschung des auf vier Jahre angelegten Projektes wird von der Europäischen Kommission gefördert.
Folgende Partner-Institute von EPOCA nehmen am Experiment auf Spitzbergen teil:
Weitere Teilnehmer:
Das Experiment wird logistisch neben Greenpeace von der französisch-deutschen Forschungsstation AWIPEV und der Forschungseinrichtung Kings Bay sowie finanzieller Unterstützung durch das EU Projekt MESOAQUA (Network of European marine mesocosm facilities) unterstützt.
en Panic
The world's marine ecosystems risk being severely damaged by ocean acidification unless there are dramatic cuts in CO2 emissions, warn scientists.
BBC
2009-01-30 en
Acid oceans 'need urgent action'
en All-clear
en This sounds very alarming, so being diligent researchers we should of course check the facts.
The ocean currently has a pH of 8.1, which is alkaline not acid.
In order to become acid, it would have to drop below 7.0.
According to Wikipedia "Between 1751 and 1994 surface ocean pH is estimated to have decreased from approximately 8.179 to 8.104."
At that rate, it will take another 3,500 years for the ocean to become even slightly acid.
There seems to be no shortage of theories about how rising CO2 levels will destroy the planet, yet the geological record shows that life flourished for hundreds of millions of years with much higher CO2 levels and temperatures.
Watts up with that? (Antony Watts)fr Vous allez comprendre:
En se dissolvant dans l'eau de mer, le CO2 se transforme en acide, ce qui représente un risque pour la faune et la flore des océans. Les planctons devraient être particulièrement touchés par cette acidification. Or, comme vous le savez, les planctons qui sont des microorganismes qui vivent en majorité près de la surface des océans, constituent la base de la chaîne alimentaire de la gent aquatique. Les petits poissons mangent du planctons (les baleines aussi). Le moyens mangent les petits. Les gros poissons mangent les moyens et ainsi de suite. Il est donc essentiel de comprendre comment survivent (ou ne survivent pas) les différentes espèces de plancton présentes dans les océans pour pouvoir imaginer ce qui pourrait arriver à l'ensemble des espèces qui vivent dans l'eau de mer qui occupe 75% de la planète.
En bref, cher lecteur(trice) rassuré(e), les mécanismes auto-adaptatifs de la vie sur terre ont joué à plein pendant cette période chaude et riche en CO2 de l'histoire de la terre, sans générer de nouvelles monstruosités, sans produire d'extinction radicale des espèces de plancton comme nous le serinent quotidiennement les prédicateurs de l'apocalypse comme Al Gore ou Sir Stern !
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Entwarnung - Die NASA stellt 1998 fest:
Réalité:
On y voit que le nombre des sécheresses intenses a diminué au fur et à mesure que le réchauffement dit "anthropogénique" s'est accentué.
Mehr CO2 macht die Erde grüner!
EIKE Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie
2009-09-24 de
Mehr CO2 macht die Erde grüner!
Noch nie in den letzten Jahrzehnten oder Jahrhunderten war die Erde grüner als heute - dank des gestiegenen CO2-Gehaltes der Atmosphäre.
Wie Lawrence Solomon berichtet, ist in den letzten 20 Jahren die globale biologische Produktion um mehr als 6% gestiegen.
Rund 25 % der Landmasse zeigten einen erheblichen Zuwachs, während nur 7 % einen Rückgang verzeichneten.
de Mehr CO2 bedeutet Ertragsteigerung in der Landwirtschaft
EIKE Europäisches Institut für Klima und Energie
2009-09-24 de
Mehr CO2 bedeutet Ertragsteigerung in der Landwirtschaft
Der seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts gestiegene CO2-Gehalt der Luft wird als wesentliche Ursache der globalen Erwärmung angesehen.
Weiter Zunahmen sollen zu ökologischen Schäden führen, die sich negativ auf die Menschheit auswirken.
CO2 wird damit zum gefährlichsten Umweltgift abgestempelt.
Völlig ignoriert wird, dass CO2 ein Grundstoff für jegliches Leben auf unserem Planeten darstellt.
This animation shows an average of 10 years worth of SeaWiFS data. Dark blue represents warmer areas where there tends to be a lack of nutrients, and greens and reds represent cooler nutrient-rich areas which support life.
The nutrient-rich areas include coastal regions where cold water rises from the sea floor bringing nutrients along and areas at the mouths of rivers where the rivers have brought nutrients into the ocean from the land.
Watts UP With That? (Antony Watts)
2008-06-08 en
Surprise: Earths' Biosphere is Booming, Satellite Data Suggests
CO2 the Cause
The planet is the greenest it's been in decades, perhaps in centuries.
Until the 1980s, ecologists had no way to systematically track growth in plant matter in every corner of the Earth - the best they could do was analyze small plots of one-tenth of a hectare or less.
The notion of continuously tracking global production to discover the true state of the globe's biota was not even considered.
Then, in the 1980s, ecologists realized that satellites could track production, and enlisted NASA to collect the data.
For the first time, ecologists did not need to rely on rough
estimates or anecdotal evidence of the health of the ecology:
They could objectively measure the land's output and soon did -
on a daily basis and down to the last kilometer.
The results surprised Steven Running of the University of Montana and Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA, scientists involved in analyzing the NASA satellite data.
They found that over a period of almost two decades, the Earth as a whole became more bountiful by a whopping 6.2%.
About 25% of the Earth's vegetated landmass - almost 110 million square kilometres - enjoyed significant increases and only 7% showed significant declines.
When the satellite data zooms in, it finds that each square metre of land, on average, now produces almost 500 grams of greenery per year.
Why the increase? Their 2004 study, and other more recent ones, point to the warming of the planet and the presence of CO2, a gas indispensable to plant life.
CO2 is nature's fertilizer, bathing the biota with its life-giving nutrients. Plants take the carbon from CO2 to bulk themselves up - carbon is the building block of life - and release the oxygen, which along with the plants, then sustain animal life.
As summarized in a report last month, released along with a
petition signed by 32,000 U. S. scientists who vouched for the
benefits of CO2:
"Higher CO2 enables plants to grow faster
and larger and to live in drier climates.
Plants provide food for animals, which are thereby also enhanced.
The extent and diversity of plant and animal life have both increased substantially during the past half-century."
From the 2004 abstract: Our results indicate that global changes in climate have eased several critical climatic constraints to plant growth, such that net primary production increased 6% (3.4 petagrams of carbon over 18 years) globally.
The largest increase was in tropical ecosystems.
Amazon rain forests accounted for 42% of the global increase in net primary production, owing mainly to decreased cloud cover and the resulting increase in solar radiation.
Lush as the planet may now be, it is as nothing compared to earlier times, when levels of CO2 and Earth temperatures were far higher.
In the age of the dinosaur, for example, CO2 levels may have been five to 10 times higher than today, spurring a luxuriantly fertile planet whose plant life sated the immense animals of that era. Planet Earth is also much cooler today than during the hothouse era of the dinosaur, and cooler than it was 1,000 years ago during the Medieval Warming Period, when the Vikings colonized a verdant Greenland.
Greenland lost its colonies and its farmland during the Little Ice Age that followed, and only recently started to become green again.
This blossoming Earth could now be in jeopardy, for reasons both natural and man-made.
According to a growing number of scientists, the period of global warming that we have experienced over the past few centuries as Earth climbed out of the Little Ice Age is about to end.
The oceans, which have been releasing their vast store of carbon dioxide as the planet has warmed - CO2 is released from oceans as they warm and dissolves in them when they cool - will start to take the carbon dioxide back.
With less heat and less carbon dioxide, the planet could become less hospitable and less green, especially in areas such as Canada's Boreal forests, which have been major beneficiaries of the increase in GPP and NPP.
Doubling the jeopardy for Earth is man.
Unlike the many scientists who welcome CO2 for its benefits, many other scientists and most governments believe carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant that must be removed from the atmosphere at all costs.
Governments around the world are now enacting massive programs in an effort to remove as much as 80% of the carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere.
If these governments are right, they will have done us all a service. If they are wrong, the service could be all ill, with food production dropping world wide, and the countless ecological niches on which living creatures depend stressed.
The second order effects could be dire, too.
To bolster food production, humans will likely turn to energy intensive manufactured fertilizers, depleting our store of non-renewable resources.
Techniques to remove carbon from the atmosphere also sound alarms.
Carbon sequestration, a darling of many who would mitigate climate change, could become a top inducer of earthquakes, according to Christian Klose, a geohazards researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
Because the carbon sequestration schemes tend to be located near cities, he notes, carbon-sequestration-caused earthquakes could exact an unusually high toll.
Amazingly, although the risks of action are arguably at least as real as the risks of inaction, Canada and other countries are rushing into Earth-altering carbon schemes with nary a doubt.
Environmentalists, who ordinarily would demand a full-fledged environmental assessment before a highway or a power plant can be built, are silent on the need to question proponents or examine alternatives.
Earth is on a roll. Governments are too.
We will know soon enough if we're rolled off a cliff.
| 2009-04-20 | en | Richard Lindzen: Global Warming & Greentech |
| 2009-04-18 | en | Reforesting Reduces Droughts |
Panikmache / Panic makers / Faiseurs de la panique
Realität / Reality / Réalité
Professor Paul Reiter contibuted to the IPCC's 3rd assessment report & explains why Al Gore is wrong on many issues involving mosquitos & climate change.
Part 2: He continues his entertaining explanation on mosquitos,
diseases & climate.
Part 3: Professor Paul Reiter was a part of the IPCC's 3rd assessment report & concludes his presentation on mosquitos, diseases and climate changes refuting what Al Gore says on the subject.
Voici ce qu'il déclare dans un interview réalisé pour un documentaire qui est sorti le 8 mars 07 sur C4 BBC, "The great Global Warming Swindle".
fr "L'affaire du réchauffement climatique est déguisée comme de la science mais ce n'est pas de la science : c'est de la propagande!
"J'ai été horrifié par ce que j'ai lu dans la partie II du rapport (NDLR : rapport du GIEC, la partie qui concerne les possibles épidémies liées au réchauffement climatique). Il y avait tellement d'informations erronées sans aucun recours à la littérature scientifique, la vraie littérature scientifique des spécialistes de ces problèmes!".
Paul Reiter profite de cet interview pour démolir une des idées préférées et généreusement propagées par le GIEC (et Al Gore dans "an unconvenient truth") qui déclare que "les moustiques ne peuvent survivre à des températures inférieures à 16 ou 18°C" , faisant ainsi craindre une extension de la malaria dans l'hémisphère Nord si celui-ci se réchauffe. Paul Reiter déclare que c'est absolument faux et que la densité de moustiques est très élevée en Arctique et, aussi, que la plus grande épidémie de malaria qui a fait plusieurs centaines de milliers de morts s'est produite dans le nord de la Russie, jusqu'en sibérie!
Et aussi de Paul Reiter, dans le même documentaire à propos des "meilleurs spécialistes du GIEC"
"Cette affirmation que le GIEC est composé des 1500 ou 2500 meilleurs savants du monde ? Vous jetez un coup d'oeil à la bibliographie, et vous voyez que c'est faux. Il y a dedans un grand nombre qui ne sont pas des scientifiques."
Et Richard Lindzen, lui aussi ancien membre du GIEC, donne des précisions:
"Et pour parvenir à faire monter le nombre jusqu'à 2500, ils sont dû recruter des journalistes, des gouvernementaux etc. n'importe qui proche d'eux à un moment quelconque, et on ne demande l'avis d'aucun d'entre eux ! Beaucoup d'entre eux ne sont pas d'accord!"
Paul Reiter en rajoute une couche !
"Ceux qui sont des spécialistes mais qui ne sont pas d'accord et qui démissionnent - j'en connais un grand nombre - On rajoute simplement leurs noms sur la liste des auteurs et ils font toujours partie de cette liste des fameux "2500 meilleurs scientifiques"! (NDLR : C'est exactement ce qui est arrivé à Paul Reiter qui a dû menacer le GIEC d'un procès pour que son nom soit enfin retiré de la liste)
en "The global warming is dressed up as science but it is not science: it is propaganda!"
"I was horrified to read the second assessment report. There was so much misinformation, without any kind of recourse to the scientific literature, the truly scientific literature by specialists in those fields ! ".
Pensée unique fr Paul Reiter
Polarbären ertrinken wenn der Meeresspiegel steigt ...
en Polar bears drown as the seas get higher ...
fr Les ours polaires se noient quant le niveau des océans monte ...
de Aus der Panik-Küche en From the panic laboratory fr De la marmite des alarmistes
Polar bear hearing affected to due global warming?
Watts Up With That? (Antony Watts)
BBC Video
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de Vertreter der These globaler Erwärmung haben die Teilnahme des Eisbärexpertern Dr. Mitchell Taylor, der sich seit 30 Jahren intensiv mit den Eisbären beschäftigt, an der Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen verhindert. Taylors Ansichten und Ergebnisse widersprechen den Hypothesen der Alarmisten, denn er schreibt die Erwärmung der Arktis statt dem CO2, wie es das IPCC und die Alarmisten vertretn, änderungen der Meeresströmungen und Winde zu.
Er sieht die Eisbären auch nicht in der Gefahr, wegen globaler Erwärmung auszusterben.
Seine Ansichten wurden daher von den Alarmisten als "extrem wenig hilfreich" bewertet.
en Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful'.
Over the coming days a curiously revealing event will be taking place in Copenhagen.
Top of the agenda at a meeting of the Polar Bear Specialist Group (set up under the International Union for the Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission) will be the need to produce a suitably scary report on how polar bears are being threatened with extinction by man-made global warming.
This is one of a steady drizzle of events planned to stoke up alarm in the run-up to the UN's major conference on climate change in Copenhagen next December.
But one of the world's leading experts on polar bears has been told to stay away from this week's meeting, specifically because his views on global warming do not accord with those of the rest of the group.
Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee.
More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.
Dr Taylor agrees that the Arctic has been warming over the last 30 years.
But he ascribes this not to rising levels of CO2 - as is dictated by the computer models of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and believed by his PBSG colleagues - but to currents bringing warm water into the Arctic from the Pacific and the effect of winds blowing in from the Bering Sea.
He has also observed, however, how the melting of Arctic ice, supposedly threatening the survival of the bears, has rocketed to the top of the warmists' agenda as their most iconic single cause.
The famous photograph of two bears standing forlornly on a melting iceberg was produced thousands of times by Al Gore, the WWF and others as an emblem of how the bears faced extinction - until last year the photographer, Amanda Byrd, revealed that the bears, just off the Alaska coast, were in no danger.
Her picture had nothing to do with global warming and was only taken because the wind-sculpted ice they were standing on made such a striking image.
Dr Taylor had obtained funding to attend this week's meeting of the PBSG, but this was voted down by its members because of his views on global warming.
The chairman, Dr Andy Derocher, a former university pupil of Dr Taylor's, frankly explained in an email (which I was not sent by Dr Taylor) that his rejection had nothing to do with his undoubted expertise on polar bears: "it was the position you've taken on global warming that brought opposition".
Dr Taylor was told that his views running "counter to human-induced climate change are extremely unhelpful".
His signing of the Manhattan Declaration - a statement by 500 scientists that the causes of climate change are not CO2 but natural, such as changes in the radiation of the sun and ocean currents - was "inconsistent with the position taken by the PBSG".
So, as the great Copenhagen bandwagon rolls on, stand by this week for reports along the lines of "scientists say polar bears are threatened with extinction by vanishing Arctic ice". But also check out Anthony Watt's Watts Up With That website for the latest news of what is actually happening in the Arctic.
The average temperature at midsummer is still below zero, the latest date that this has happened in 50 years of record-keeping.
After last year's recovery from its September 2007 low, this year's ice melt is likely to be substantially less than for some time.
The bears are doing fine.
Sex in Atlantic silversides - a silvery fish five or six inches long - is determined by temperature: larvae reared in warm water become males and larvae reared in cooler water become females.
Fish collected from colder waters grew much faster than fish collected from warmer waters.
Smaller fish must be thrown back. So large fish are selected out of populations while small fish survive to reproduce.
In this scenario, a fish with genes for smaller size would have a better chance of surviving and reproducing than a fish with genes for large size - because the large fish is more likely to wind up on someone's dinner plate.
David hypothesized that this form of artificial selection would cause fish populations to evolve smaller body sizes.
The change that David observed in fish populations happened over just four generations and four years. Furthermore, in those four years, the fish evolved a lot!
At the end of the experiment, the mass of the fish harvested from the populations where only the smallest fish were removed was almost twice as large as that of the fish from the population where the biggest fish were removed.
If the same sort of evolution is going on in wild populations (as it seems to be), it's bad news for both the fishermen and the fish.
From the fisherman's perspective, it means that his or her catch (the mass of fish harvested) is going to decrease.
The fisherman may be able to remove the largest fish from the sea, but over time, the population will evolve such that even the largest fish will be smaller and smaller.
And from the fish's perspective, evolving smaller body sizes has some pretty drastic side effects...
Big fish tend to grow fast, produce many big eggs, and have more vertebra.

Of course, these results are not what fisheries managers had in mind by requiring fishermen to "throw the little ones back."
That rule was intended to allow the little fish to reach spawning age and to reduce the competition they faced, giving them more resources to grow and reproduce. The approach sounds reasonable and yet it doesn't seem to work.
Why not?
As David explains, such rules account only for ecology and ignore evolution: "We are getting the opposite effect from what we would have predicted based on ecology alone.
That happens because we have selected for fish that grow slow, that eat less food, that don't use that food very efficiently, that produce fewer eggs, the eggs they produce were smaller in size, which means that the larvae they produced were smaller when they hatched from the egg - and we changed the behavior so that those fish were more hesitant to feed in the presence of predator - they were more shy about feeding.
All of those characteristics reduce productivity - and we can actually drive a population into lower yields instead of higher."
So because they ignore an evolutionary perspective, such regulations may do more harm than good.
And those genes won't disappear when the selection does.
"When you stop fishing, nature doesn't automatically exert selection pressure back in the other direction very quickly."
New catch criteria
So instead of keeping the large fish, fishermen would be only be allowed to keep the medium-sized fish.
David points out that "we've removed almost all the big fish from the sea ...
en When I was a kid, I was told that dinosaurs became extinct when the climate went cold, probably as a result of a giant meteor and/or volcanic eruptions.
Like most life forms, dinosaurs liked it warm, which it was even in the polar regions during their heyday.
But prehistory has had to be revised, now that global cooling is passé, and any ill that can't be blamed on the war in Iraq must be a result of global warming - even, for those gullible enough to believe Time Magazine - the demise of the dinosaurs.
By spewing ash into the air that blocks out the sun, volcanoes used to cause cooling.
But in keeping with politically correct ideology, this now causes warming. Remarkably, Al Gore's reengineering of reality works retroactively, so that it applies even to dinosaurs, who did not know enough to save themselves by voting for higher taxes and more government control.
Time quotes a politically astute scientist who knows where grant money comes from as claiming that volcanic activity "leads to greenhouse warming that puts a major stress on the environment" - thus dooming the dinosaurs.
Moonbattery
WE'RE ALL DOOMED! WE'RE GOING TO GO THE WAY OF THE DINOSAURS! ONLY
THE GORACLE'S GOSPEL CAN SAVE US!
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Time Magazine: Global Warming Killed the Dinosaurs
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en the massive California wildfires can be attributed to a cooling Pacific, two years of La Nina and environmental mismanagement.
en The recent fires in Australia and the loss of life and property were apparently compounded by a draconian policy that prevented people who lived in the fire threat zones from cutting trees and brush near their properties.
We witnessed something equally tragic in Lake Tahoe fire in 2007, owing to similar eco driven government stupidity forcing heavy handed policies there.
Residents couldn't get permits to cut down brush and trees, the result was a firestorm of catastrophic proportions.
Canada Free Press / Dr. Tim Ball
2010-08-06 fr
Des forêts laissées à l'abandon
Alors que les incendies de forêts continuent de faire rage dans le pays, la presse commence à s'interroger sur les raisons de la catastrophe.
Pour les Izvestia, c'est le démantèlement du système de surveillance et de protection des espaces forestiers qui est en cause.
fr "Les arbres ne vivent et ne croissent pas toujours à la température de l'air ambiant."
Rude coup porté à la dendrochronologie !
de Sonnenaktivität und Weizenpreis - Schon William Herschel entdeckte den Zusammenhang
en It is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots.
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| Getreide unter Stress bei fallenden Temperaturen | Crops under stress as temperatures fall | Le blé sous stress lorsque les températures baissent |
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| Physikalische Aspekte | Physical aspects | Aspects physiques |
| Wie die Sonne und kosmische Strahlen die Entwicklung von tiefliegenden Wolken beeinflussen | How cosmic rays and the Sun may influence the formation of low-level clouds | Comment les rayons cosmiques et le soleil peuvent influencer la formation de nuages de basse altitude |
Klimanews
2008-12-28 de
Weinbau und Klimageschichte in Britannien
Über den Vorstoß und Rückzug der Weinbaugrenze in Großbritannien lassen sich recht genau die Klimaschwankungen der letzten 2.000 Jahre zurück verfolgen. Insgesamt an die 500 Weinberge, zurückreichend bis in die Besatzungszeit Britanniens durch die Römer, sind wissenschaftlich dokumentiert.
In Britannien wird Wein seit der römischen Zeit angebaut.
Die Römer haben die ersten Weinberge angelegt.
In der römischen Provinz Britannien gehörte der Wein bereits zum Haushalt.
Das weiß man durch Funde von römischen Trinkgefäßen und Weinamphoren.
In Northamptonshire entdeckte man eine römische Villa mit ausgedehnten Weinbergen. Weitere Weinberge entdecke man in der Umgebung.
Historische Funde und Aufzeichnungen, sowie moderne Klimarekonstruktionen deuten darauf hin, dass es zur Römerzeit in Nordeuropa im Schnitt etwas wärmer war als heute.
Dem Klima-Optimum der Römerzeit folgte das sog. Klima-Pessimum der Völkerwanderungszeit und des Frühmittelalters.
Erst im Verlaufe des Mittelalters wurde es wieder wärmer.
Die Abkühlung während der Völkerwanderungszeit und des Frühmittelalters führte dazu, dass der Weinbau auf den Britischen Inseln für Jahrhunderte zum Erliegen kam.
Die Römer haben in dieser Zeit Britannien verlassen.
Erst die Normannen haben im Hochmittelalter wieder Weinbau betrieben und zwar in etwa so weit nördlich wie zur Römerzeit.
Im Mittelalter war der Weinbau in England wieder bedeutend geworden.
Man weiß, dass es im 11. Jahrhundert 38 Weinberge gab. Im Norden reichten sie bis Yorkshire.
Aber auch diese Hochzeit neigte sich dem Ende.
Mit Einzug des Spätmittelalters folgte die sog. kleine Eiszeit mit eisigen Wintern und es blieben nur noch ein paar Weinberge in Südengland übrig.
Am Vorstoß und Rückzug der Weinbaugrenze in Großbritannien lassen sich somit recht genau die Klimaschwankungen der letzten 2.000 Jahre zurück verfolgen.
Während des sog. Klima-Optimums der Römerzeit und rund tausend Jahre später, während der mittelalterlichen Warmphase, wurden in nördlichen Breiten Weinberge angelegt.
Während der Kältephasen der Völkerwanderungszeit und des frühen Mittelalters und besonders in der frühen Neuzeit - der sog. Kleinen Eiszeit - verschwanden viele dieser Weinberge.
Heute sind sie wieder auf dem Vormarsch.
Heute wird Weinbau vor allem im Süden Britanniens betrieben.
Mit viel Idealismus, in geschützter Lage, mit neunen Rebensorten und moderner Technik wird sogar ein kleiner Weinberg in Yorkshire betrieben (Leventhorpe Vineyard).
Damit reicht die Weinanbaugrenze ähnlich weit nach Norden wie im Mittelalter, bzw. wie zur Römerzeit. Der einzige Unterschied.
Damals war alles noch Handarbeit und man hatte keine große Auswahl an Rebsorten, keine Pflanzenschutzmittel und keinen Industriedünger.
The Independent Science
1999-11-16 en
Veni, vidi, viticulture - remains of Roman vineyards found in UK
To date the research has identified the remains of seven Romano-British vineyards - four in Northamptonshire, one in Cambridgeshire, one in Lincolnshire and one in Buckinghamshire.
Most of the wines produced at them were probably fruity, sweet and brownish in colour.
The grapes would have been harvested early, before they were fully ripe, in around late September.
After the treading, large amounts of honey would have been added for sweetness and to produce an alcohol content of about 10 to 12 per cent.
The wine would have continued to ferment inside storage amphorae or barrels and would have been drunk within six months.
Wine from fresh grapes - as opposed to raisins - was thus a drink for winter and spring.
One of the main wine-producing areas of Roman Britain seems to have been the Nene Valley, in what is now Northamptonshire.
In the valley, near the village of Wollaston, archaeologists have found ancient vineyards covering at least 30 acres, in which vines were grown in the Mediterranean Roman style, exactly as described by classical authors such as Pliny and Columella.
On one site, the remains of four miles of bedding trenches have been found.
Estimates suggest that the site contained 4,000 vines, producing 10,000 litres of wine a year.
In Roman times, Britain had a slightly warmer climate than now; and, with 500 to 600mm of rain a year, Northamptonshire is at the lower end of the British precipitation range, which would have meant fewer fungal problems.
The area would therefore have been suitable for grape production.
de Aus der Panik-Küche en From the panic laboratory fr De la marmite des alarmistes
The Telegraph CO UK
2009-08-17 en
Best wines will come from Scotland if climate change is not stopped,
French chefs say
Prominent French chefs have given warning that the country's wines will lose their complexity and the best produce will come from Scotland if the effects of climate change are not tackled.
Watts UP With That? (Antony Watts)
2009-08-18 en
Global Wining: French wine "in danger", climate change "must be tackled"
Hmmm, maybe there's something to that "Wines grown in England during the Medieval Warm Period" after all.
I think maybe the French are upset that Scottish wine might be served with kippers rather than truffles. Oh the horror!
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| Neue Kälteperiode | New Cold Period | Nouvelle periode froide |
| Voraussage einer neuen Kälteperiode | Predicting of a new cold period | Prédiction d'une nouvelle période froide |
de Afrika fordert 67 Milliarden Dollar jährlich - als Entschädigung für den "Klimawandel"
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Zehn afrikanische Staaten bereiten einen Resolutionsentwurf für die anstehende Klimakonferenz in Kopenhagen vor, in dem sie jährliche "Entschädigungen" für die nach Einschätzung von Experten bevorstehenden Schäden durch den "Klimawandel" von den Industrienationen fordern.
Diese Forderung ist in mehrfacher Hinsicht bemerkenswert:
Es geht nicht um tatsächliche Schäden, sondern um Schäden, die nach Einschätzung von Experten zukünftig eintreten werden.
Eine Entschädigung für einen Schaden, der noch gar nicht existiert, ist absurd.
Tatsächlich gibt es keinen Trend zu mehr wetterbezogene Naturkatastrophen, weder in Afrika noch sonstwo.
Versuche der Alarmisten um Michael Mann, solche Zunahmen zu belegen, sind erst kürzlich als statistische Manipulation und Fehlinterpretation der Daten entlarvt worden.
Die Forderung der Afrikaner entbehrt daher jeder belegbaren wissenschaftlichen Grundlage.
Tatsächlich haben sich die Wüstenflächen gerade in Afrika verringert.
Die "Einschätzung von Experten" hat, soweit damit alarmistische Prognosen verbunden waren, in der Vergangenheit schon so oft versagt
(Beispiele: Keine Erwärmung bis 2020, Greenpeace behauptet fälschlich das baldige Verschwinden des arktischen Eises, das UK Met Office prognostiziert dreimal einen warmen Sommer - und lag dreimal daneben),
daß die Einschätzung irgendwelcher Experten wohl kaum eine hinreichende Grundlage für Finanzströme der angestrebten Größe sein dürften.
Diese Aspekte sind unabhängig davon, daß ein anthropogener Einfluß auf die globale Temperaturentwicklung mehr als zweifelhaft ist.
Selbst wenn CO2 einen Einfluß auf die Temperaturen haben sollte, hat es Afrika bisher nicht geschadet, und es gibt keinen Hinweis darauf (außer in den dauernd falschen Computermodellen der Alarmisten), daß eine Erwärmung Afrika schaden wird.
Die Forderung der Afrikaner ist ein relativ geschickter Versuch, das von den Alarmisten vorbereitete Feld zu bestellen und das den westlichen Nationen eingeredete schlechte Gewissen auszunutzen.
Einen Nutzen für Afrika, die Welt oder das Klima hätten die geforderten Zahlungen vermutlich nicht.
China und Indien, die sich am Emissionszertifikathandel nicht beteiligen, profitieren bereits jetzt vom Klima-Gewissen der westlichen Nationen:
Durch den Handel mit mit CO2-Zertifikaten kommt es zu einer Verteuerung der Produktion in den westlichen Ländern (besonders Europa), wodurch die Verlagerung von Produktion und Arbeitsplätzen nach Indien und China weiter begünstigt wird.
Und dort wird weniger effizient, sprich mit größeren CO2-Emissionen produziert - "Klimaschutz" absurd!
Afrika mischt kräftig mit beim Panikorchester, das Michael Miersch vorhergesagt hat.
Jetzt möchten also auch die Afrikaner von der Dummheit der Industrienationen profitieren. Das ist zwar verständlich, aber nicht akzeptabel.
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en African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world's poorest continent
Reuters
2009-08-24 de
Africa wants $67 bln a year in global warming funds
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 24 (Reuters) - African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world's poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday.
Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to agree a common stance ahead of a U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December.
Experts say Africa contributes little to the pollution blamed for warming, but is likely to be hit hardest by the droughts, floods, heatwaves and rising sea levels forecast if climate change is not checked.
The draft resolution, which must still be approved by the 10 leaders, called for rich countries to pay $67 billion annually to counter the impact of global warming in Africa.
It said there had been serious limitations on Africa's ability to negotiate in the past because of a lack of a coherent stance on global warming by African governments.
"The negotiating team need to be backed with the political weight at the highest level in the continent to ensure that the African voice on climate change negotiations is taken with the seriousness it deserves", the document said.
fr L'Afrique veut 67 milliards de dollars d'aide pour le climat
Boursier Com
2009-08-24 fr
L'Afrique veut 67 milliards de dollars d'aide pour le climat
ADDIS-ABEBA (Reuters) - L'Afrique va demander 67 milliards de dollars d'aide annuelle aux pays industrialisés pour faire face aux conséquences du réchauffement climatique, selon un projet de résolution en discussion au siège de l'Union africaine (UA) dont Reuters a pris connaissance lundi.
Dix chefs d'Etat africains réunis à Addis-Abeba cherchent à forger une position commune en vue du sommet de décembre sur les changements climatiques, à Copenhague.
L'Afrique ne joue qu'un rôle mineur dans le réchauffement de la planète mais pourrait bien être le continent le plus touché par la sécheresse, les inondations et autres catastrophes engendrées par l'évolution du climat.
Le texte en discussion au siège de l'UA doit encore être
formellement approuvé par les dix chefs d'Etat.
S'il est adopté en l'état, l'Afrique réclamera donc une aide
annuelle de 67 milliards de dollars à compter de 2020, a-t-on
précisé de sources proches de l'organisation.
Les auteurs du projet de résolution regrettent en outre l'absence de cohésion qui a jusqu'ici limité la marge de manoeuvre de l'Afrique dans les tractations internationales.
"Les négociateurs doivent bénéficier d'un appui politique au plus haut niveau du Continent pour faire en sorte que la voix africaine dans les négociations sur le changement climatique soit considérée avec le sérieux qu'elle mérite", écrivent-ils.
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| en | At Wikipedia, one man engineers the debate on global warming. |
| fr | A Wikipedia, un homme dirige le débat sur le réchauffement climatique et à sa manière. |
A: Acne, Agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, Africa devastated Africa in conflict, African aid threatened, African summer frost, Aggressive weeds, Air pressure changes, Alaska reshaped, Agulhas current moves, Alps melting, Amazon a desert, American dream end, Amphibians breeding earlier (or not), Anaphylactic reactions to bee stings, Ancient forests dramatically changed, Animals head for the hills, Antarctic grass flourishes, Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks, Antarctic sea life at risk, Aanxiety treatment, Algal blooms, Aarchaeological sites threatened, Arctic bogs melt, Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster, Arctic lakes disappear, Arctic tundra to burn, Arctic warming (not), Atlantic less salty, Atlantic more salty, Atmospheric circulation modified (pdf), Attack of the killer jellyfish, Avalanches reduced, Avalanches increased
B: ...
death:
billions of deaths
camel deaths,
cancer deaths in England,
death rate increase (US),
hyperthermia deaths,
illness and death,
slow death,
cremation to end,
extinctions:
human,
civilisation,
logic,
Inuit,
smallest butterfly,
cod, ladybirds,
pikas, polar bears,
walrus,
toads,
plants,
salmon,
trout,
wild flowers,
woodlice,
a million species,
half of all animal and plant species,
mountain species,
not polar bears,
barrier reef,
leaches,
tropical insects
flood:
flood patterns change,
floods,
floods of beaches and cities,
flood of migrants,
flood preparation for crisis,
Florida economic decline,
Bahrain under water,
Venice flooded
health:
American dream end,
cancer deaths in England,
computer models,
danger to kid's health,
Dengue hemorrhagic fever,
depression,
desert advance,
health affected,
health of children harmed,
heart attacks and strokes (Australia),
human health risk,
lives saved,
Melanoma,
cataracts,
human health improvement,
Cholera,
five million illnesses
Malaria
millions, billions, trillions:
a million species,
five million illnesses,
homeless 50 million,
billion dollar research projects,
billion homeless,
billions face risk,
billions of deaths,
wars threaten billions,
damages equivalent to $200 billion,
cost of trillions
wine:
wine - harm to Australian industry,
wine industry damage (California),
wine industry disaster (US),
wine - more English,
wine - England too hot,
wine - German boon,
wine - no more French
wine passé (Napa),
wine stronger
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| Politische und wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen | Political and econimical impacts | Impacts politiques et économiques |
| Politische und wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen | Political and economical impacts | Impacts politiques et économiques |