[wavelandscott (Scott)]

I have enjoyed reading these posts from my well lit, electrically heated house as I wear my baby sealskin slippers, drink my GMO sweetened soft drink and smoke my thirld world grown/harvested and wrapped by exploited labour cigar...while my wife drives one of our luxary 4 wheel drives .5 km to get a McD take away meal for my obese children...remind me to have one of my exploited household domestic staff water my yard before I have them deported before I have to pay them (below award level wage of course)...

What fun...

Seriously though, in grad school I did a fair amount of work on climate change and the impact on agricultural production...there is a lot of conflicting data on the topic in particular as to whether or not things are getting warmer and if so is it a bad thing...I won't be drawn into an arguement on that subject...most of the models I've seen showed a warming and a shifting in arable areas...some people who used to be wet get dry and some people who are dry/cold get wet and warm...total food production didn't seem to change much but fruit trees become very popular in Canada!...

My 2 cents...climate change is pretty constant through the history of the planet...again there is lots of arguement on if the speed of change is growing...is it man made or natural???

I will say that I don't think the "Malthusian's" are correct we are not doomed...and no, I will not eat soylent green (it is made from people)...so in my opinion the sky is not falling yet...

I don't know how or why but, I think that human kind will find a way to survive...our monkey brains have shown that we are a resilient and inventive (destructive to) lot and I think whether through serendipity or hard work that things will work out okay in the end...call me pollyanna but, that is what I beleive...

Sounds like my wife is back with my Supersize meal...better go, I've got to eat some beef and throw away some paper packaging