""You couldn't choreograph worse weather conditions for pollination," Fred Below, a crop biologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told Bloomberg News recently. "It's like farming in Hell." Last week, the U.S.D.A. officially cut its yield forecast by twelve per cent, citing a "rapid decline in crop conditions since early June and the latest weather data." Also last week, because of the dryness, the U.S.D.A. declared more than a thousand counties in twenty-six states to be natural disaster areas. This was by far the largest such designation the agency has ever made. In the past month, as the severity of the situation has become apparent, corn prices have risen by more than forty per cent. Since so much corn is used to feed livestock, it's likely that the increase will translate into higher prices for dairy products and beef - although, as many have pointed out, beef prices were already rising, owing to last year's devastating drought in Texas.
Up until fairly recently, it was possible - which, of course, is not the same as advisable - to see climate change as a phenomenon that was happening somewhere else. In the Arctic, Americans were told (again and again and again), the effects were particularly dramatic. The sea ice was melting. This was bad for native Alaskans, and even worse for polar bears, who rely on the ice for survival. But in the Lower Forty-eight there always seemed to be more pressing concerns, like Barack Obama's birth certificate. Similarly, the Antarctic Peninsula was reported to be warming fast, with unfortunate consequences for penguins and sea levels. But penguins live far away and sea-level rise is prospective, so again the issue seemed to lack "the fierce urgency of now."


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Talked to friend that was in Indiana last week...105 F...no real precip since May...ugly. I hope they make it thru..

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Ka'a'awa avocado

Droughts happen all the time.

Droughts happen all the time.

 

 

 

yeah But, this is our Drought and it could suck pretty bad...

prices of gas and food go up just in time for November elections and its all Bushs fault for causing the drought...

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who's the brainiac that thought using food as a fuel additive when rubbish weeds can be used.

Now that there's a drought, you think the frackers might ease off using millions of gallons of precious fluids?  Maybe they'll decide that they'll give the rancher and farmers the water rights they were able to out bid them for.

when monkeys fly out of our collective arses.

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Big price rise at the grocery store are already beginning.

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We never hade droughts before this global warming business started. A brand new phenomena, for sure.

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Brujo, gdudewe, martinA and WG - the white Al Sharptons of NSR.

There have been general shift in rainfall patterns independent of prevailing natural cycles in many areas.  One recent study shows a fairly steady increase in the frequency of occurrance of heavy rainfall events in the northeastern US over the last several decades.  Can't blame any one event or cluster of events on climate change but you can detect a signal among multiple variables analyzed together. 

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global warming!!!!!!!! Al Gore the scientist was right!

 

but all jokes aside...my gf's family lives in Kansas on a few hundred acres and there produce is 100% dead.

of course we have.
so we know what they can cost.
and what a bitch it would be if we caused a lot more

it's hell living in Kansas with temperate climate. 

the over all temperature is going up.  it can't be coming from above to heat up the ocean.  My thoughts used to be that oil is the problem. the removal of oil that is.  In my youth I did refrigeration for a supermarket chain.  part of my duties was keeping the lights functioning.  usually it was the bulbs.  but if the bulbs aren't removed in a timely manner, the Ballast would overheat and this black oily goo would leak out.  it was explained to me that it was used to insulate the "transformer".

WHAT IF, oil isn't the by product of dead dinosaurs, but an insulation to keep the mantle from setting the surface on fire.

 

Today, I think it's

 

 

NIBIRU !!!!!!!!!!!

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