A Complete List Of Bad Things Attributed To Global Warming
Posted 04/05/2010 05:05 PM ET
This is more humor than any creditable science. About two
years ago, the global warming propaganda machine created such pressure that any
scientist that wished to attract funding somehow found a way to mention global
warming in his grant applications and obviously into the paper
production. Two years of effort has produced this mountain of perfectly
good science hiding under the same umbrella.
It is still not quite as bad as the cure for cancer umbrella which
rolled on for decades. This one at least ended pretty badly a few weeks
back.
This is a typical case of jumping on a strong horse to advance
ones own work. Let us hope that few suffer any real damage. After
all, it was all about PR.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=529363
Hardly a day goes by that the media don't blame something on global
warming. Or so it seems. The British-based science watchdog, Number Watch,
wondered just how many and went to the trouble of documenting them.
It has kept on its Web site a near-comprehensive set of links to
a long list of things attributed by either scientific research or the media to
global warming. As you read it, some items will strike you as contradictory. Others, perhaps, as merely absurd. And still others as
factually impossible.
However they strike you, in perusing the list one thing will become
clear: just how much the fear of global warming has come to taint both science
and news reporting on the issue.
Following is the list of phenomena (756 entries in all) linked
at one time or another to warming. They range from acne, bubonic plague and a
drop in circumcisions to Yellow fever, whale beachings,
walrus stampedes, witchcraft executions and the threat of zebra mussels.
Actual links to stories that make the claims listed below can be
found at
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm.
(Below the list are some claims that no longer have working Internet links.)
The list:
Acne, agricultural land increase, Afghan poppies destroyed, aged
deaths,
poppies more potent, Africa devastated, Africa in conflict, African aid
threatened,
African summer frost, aggressive weeds, Air France crash, air
pressure changes,
airport farewells virtual, airport malaria, Agulhas current,
Alaskan towns slowly destroyed,
al-Qaida and Taliban being helped, allergy
increase, allergy season longer,
alligators in the Thames, 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, animals shrink,
Antarctic grass flourishes,
Antarctic ice grows, Antarctic ice shrinks,
Antarctic sea life at risk, anxiety
treatment, algal blooms, archaeological sites threatened,
Arctic bogs melt,
Arctic in bloom, Arctic ice free, Arctic ice melt faster,
Arctic lakes
disappear, Arctic tundra lost, Arctic warming (not),
a rose by any other name
smells of nothing, asteroid strike risk, asthma,
Atlantic less salty, Atlantic
more salty, atmospheric circulation modified,
attack of the killer jellyfish,
avalanches reduced, avalanches increased,
Baghdad snow, Bahrain under water,
bananas grow, barbarization,
bats decline, beer and bread prices to soar, beer
better, beer worse,
beetle infestation, bet for $10,000, big melt faster,
billion-dollar research projects,
billion homeless, billions face risk,
billions of deaths, bird distributions change,
bird loss accelerating, bird
strikes, bird visitors drop, birds confused,
birds decline (Wales), birds
driven north, birds face longer migrations,
birds return early, birds shrink
(Australia), birds shrink (U.S.), bittern boom ends,
blackbirds stop singing,
blackbirds threatened, Black Hawk down, blizzards,
blood contaminated, blue
mussels return, borders redrawn, bluetongue,
brain-eating amoebae, brains
shrink, bridge collapse (Minneapolis),
Britain one big city, Britain Siberian,
Britain's bananas, British monsoon,
brothels struggle, brown Ireland, bubonic
plague, Buddhist temple threatened,
building collapse, building season
extension, bushfires,
butterflies move north,
butterflies
reeling, carbon crimes, camel deaths, cancer deaths in England,
cannibalism,
caterpillar biomass shift, cave paintings threatened, childhood insomnia,
Cholera, circumcision in decline, cirrus disappearance, civil unrest, cloud
increase,
coast beauty spots lost, cockroach migration, cod go south, coffee
threatened,
coffee berry borer, coffee berry disease, cold climate creatures
survive,
cold spells (Australia), cold wave (India), cold weather (world),
computer models,
conferences, conflict, conflict with Russia, consumers foot
the bill, coral bleaching,
coral fish suffer,
coral reefs dying, coral reefs grow,coral
reefs shrink, coral reefs twilight,
cost of trillions, cougar attacks,
crabgrass menace, cradle of civilization threatened,
creatures move uphill,
crime increase, crocodile sex, crops devastated, crumbling roads,
buildings and
sewage systems, curriculum change, cyclones (Australia),
danger to kid's
health, Dartford Warbler plague, deadly virus
outbreaks,
death rate increase (U.S.), deaths to reach 6 million, Dengue
hemorrhagic fever,
depression, desert advance, desert retreat, destruction of
the
environment,
dig sites threatened, disasters, diseases move
north, dog disease,
dozen deadly diseases or not, drought, ducks and geese
decline,
dust bowl in the corn belt, earlier pollen season, Earth axis tilt,
Earth biodiversity crisis,
Earth dying, Earth even hotter, Earth light dimming,
Earth lopsided, Earth melting,
Earth morbid fever, Earth on fast track, Earth
past point of no return,
Earth slowing down, Earth spins faster, Earth to
explode, Earth upside down,
earthquakes, earthquakes redux,
El Nino intensification, end of the world as we know it,
erosion, emerging
infections, encephalitis, English villages lost,
equality threatened, Europe
simultaneously baking and freezing, eutrophication,
evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups,
extinctions
(human, civilization, koalas, logic, Inuit, smallest butterfly, cod,
penguins, pikas,
polar bears, possums, walrus, tigers, toads,turtles,
plants,
ladybirds, rhinoceros, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, a million
species,
half of all animal and plant species, mountain species, not polar
bears,
barrier reef, leaches, salamanders, tropical insects) experts muzzled,
extreme changes to California, fading fall foliage, fainting, famine, farmers
benefit,
farmers go under, farm output boost, farming soil decline, fashion
disaster, fever,
figurehead sacked, fir cone bonanza, fires fanned in Nepal,
fish bigger,
fish catches drop, fish downsize, fish deaf, fish get lost, fish
head north,
fish shrinking, fish stocks at risk, fish stocks decline, five
million illnesses,
flesh eating disease, flies on Everest, flood patterns
change, floods,
floods of beaches and cities, flood of migrants, flood
preparation for crisis,
flora dispersed, Florida economic decline, flowers in
peril, fog increase in San Francisco,
fog decrease in San Francisco, food
poisoning, food prices rise, food prices soar,
food security threat, football team
migration, forest decline, forest expansion,
foundations threatened, frog with
extra heads, frosts, frostbite,
frost damage increased, fungi fruitful, fungi
invasion, games change,
Garden of Eden wilts, geese decline in Hampshire,
genetic changes,
genetic diversity decline, gene pools slashed, geysers
imperiled,
giant icebergs (Australia), giant oysters invade, giant pythons
invade,
giant squid migrate, gingerbread houses collapse, glacial earthquakes,
glacial retreat, glacier grows (California), glaciers on Snowden,
glacier
wrapped, global cooling, glowing clouds, golf course to drown,
golf Masters
wrecked, grain output drop (China), grandstanding,
grasslands wetter, gravity
shift, Great Barrier Reef 95% dead,
Great Lakes drop, great tits cope, greening
of the North,
Grey whales lose weight, Gulf Stream failure, habitat loss,
haggis threatened,
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest
shrinkage,
hay fever epidemic, health affected, health of children harmed,
health risks (even more) heart disease, heart attacks and strokes (Australia),
heat waves, hedgehogs bald, hibernation affected, hibernation ends too soon,
hibernation ends too late, homeless 50 million, hornets,
human development
faces unprecedented reversal, human fertility reduced,
human health risk, human
race oblivion, hurricanes, hurricane reduction,
hurricanes fewer, hurricanes
more intense, hurricanes not, hydropower problems,
hyperthermia deaths, ice
age, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, icebergs,
illness and death, inclement
weather, India drowning, infrastructure failure (Canada),
indigestion, industry
threatened, infectious diseases, inflation in China,
insect explosion, insect
invasion, insurance premium rises, Inuit displacement,
Inuit poisoned, Inuit
suing, invasion of alien worms, invasion of Antarctic aliens,
invasion of Asian
carp, invasion of cats, invasion of crabgrass, invasion of herons,
invasion of
jellyfish, invasion of king crabs, invasion of midges,invasion
of slugs,
island disappears, islands sinking, Italy robbed of pasta, itchier
poison ivy,
jellyfish explosion, jet stream drifts north, jets fall from sky,
Kew Gardens taxed,
kidney stones, killer cornflakes, killing us, kitten boom,
koalas under threat,
krill decline, lake and stream productivity decline, lake
empties,
lake shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph,
large trees decline, lawsuits increase,lawsuit
successful, lawyers' income increased,
lawyers want more, legionnaires' surge,
lives lost, lives saved,
Loch Ness monster dead, locust plagues suppressed,
lush growth in rain forests,
Lyme disease, Malaria, malnutrition, mammoth dung
melt, mango harvest fails,
Maple production advanced, Maple syrup shortage,
marine diseases,
marine food chain decimated, Meaching
(end of the world), Meat eating to stop,
Mediterranean rises, megacryometeors, Melanoma, Melanoma decline,
mental
illness, methane emissions from plants, methane burps, methane runaway,
melting
permafrost, Middle Kingdom convulses, migration,
migratory birds huge losses,
microbes to decompose soil carbon more rapidly,
minorities hit, monkeys at
risk, monkeys on the move, Mont Blanc grows,
monuments imperiled, moose dying,
more bad air days,
more research needed, mortality
increased, mosquitoes adapting,
mountain (Everest) shrinking, mountaineers
fears, mountains break up,
mountains green and flowering, mountains taller,
mortality lower,
murder rate increase, musk ox decline, Myanmar cyclone,
narwhals at risk,
National Parks damaged, National security implications,
native wildlife overwhelmed, natural disasters quadruple, new islands,
next ice
age, NFL threatened, Nile delta damaged, noctilucent
clouds,
no effect in India, Northwest Passage opened, nuclear plants bloom,
oaks dying, oaks move north, oblivion, ocean acidification,
ocean acidification
faster, ocean dead spots, ocean dead zones unleashed,
ocean deserts expand,
ocean waves speed up, Olympic Games to end,
opera house to be destroyed,
outdoor hockey threatened,
oxygen depletion zones, ozone repair slowed, ozone
rise,
penguin chicks frozen, penguin chicks smaller, penguins replaced by
jellyfish,
personal carbon rationing,pest outbreaks,
pests increase,phenology shifts,
pines decline,
pirate population decrease, plankton blooms, plankton wiped out,
plants lose
protein, plants march north, plants move uphill,
polar bears aggressive, polar
bears cannibalistic, polar bears deaf,
polar bears drowning, polar tours
scrapped, popcorn rise, porpoise astray,
profits collapse, psychiatric illness,
puffin decline,
pushes poor women into prostitution, rabid bats, radars taken
out,
railroad tracks deformed, rainfall increase, rape wave, refugees,
reindeer
endangered, reindeer larger, release of ancient frozen viruses,
resorts
disappear, rice threatened, rice yields crash, rift on Capitol Hill,
rioting
and nuclear war, river flow impacted, rivers raised, road accidents,
roads wear
out, robins rampant, rocky peaks crack apart,
roof of the world a desert,
rooftop bars, Ross river disease, ruins ruined,
Russia under pressure, salinity
reduction, salinity increase, Salmonella,
salmon stronger, satellites
accelerate, school closures, sea level rise,
sea level rise faster, seals
mating more, seismic activity, sewer bills rise,
severe thunderstorms, sex
change, sexual promiscuity, shark attacks,
sharks booming, sharks moving north,
sheep change color, sheep shrink,
shop closures, short-nosed dogs endangered,
shrimp sex problems,
shrinking ponds, shrinking sheep, shrinking shrine, Sidney
Opera House wiped out,
ski resorts threatened, slow death, smaller brains,
smelt down, smog,
snowfall decrease, snowfall increase, snowfall heavy, snow
thicker,
soaring food prices, societal collapse, soil change,
songbirds change
eating habits, sour grapes, space problem,
spectacular orchids, spiders getting
bigger, spiders invade Scotland,
squid larger, squid population explosion,
squid tamed,
squirrels reproduce earlier, stingray invasion, storms wetter,
stratospheric cooling, street crime to increase,subsidence,
suicide,
swordfish in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy, taxes, tectonic plate
movement,
terrorists (India), thatched cottages at risk, threat to peace,
ticks
move northward (Sweden), tides rise,
tigers eat people,
tomatoes rot, tornado outbreak, tourism
increase, toxic seaweed,
trade barriers, trade winds weakened, traffic jams,
transportation threatened,
tree foliage increase (U.K.), tree growth slowed,
tree growth faster,
trees in trouble, trees less colorful, trees more colorful,
trees lush,
trees on Antarctica, treelines change,
tropics expansion, tropopause raised,
truffle
shortage, truffles down, turtles crash, turtle feminized,
turtles lay earlier,
UFO sightings, U.K. coastal impact, U.K. Katrina,
Vampire moths, Venice
flooded, violin decline,
volcanic eruptions,
walrus pups orphaned, walrus stampede,
wars over water, wars sparked,
wars threaten billions, wasps, water bills
double,
water scarcity (20% of increase), wave of natural disasters, waves
bigger,
weather out of its mind, weather patterns awry,
weather patterns last
longer, Western aid cancelled out, West Nile fever,
whale beachings,
whales lose weight, whales move north, whales wiped out,
wheat yields crushed
in Australia, wildfires,wind shift, wind reduced,
winds stronger, winds weaker, wine Australian baked,
wine harm to
Australian industry, wine industry damage (California),
wine industry disaster
(U.S.), wine more English, wine England too hot,
wine German boon, wine
no more French, wine pass้ (Napa),
wine Scotland best, wine stronger, winters
in Britain colder,
winter in Britain dead, witchcraft executions, wolverine
decline,
wolves eat more moose, wolves eat less, workers laid off, World at
war,
World War 4, World bankruptcy, World in crisis, World in flames,
Yellow
fever, zebra mussel threat, zoonotic diseases.
Source: http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/04/list-of-bad-things-attributed-to-global.html