Crops under stress as the weather ... cools??? What? It's not getting warmer???

For the second time in little over a year, it looks as though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week, it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.

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t is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose. In the past two years, sunspot activity has dropped to its lowest point for a century. One of our biggest worries is that our politicians are so fixated on the idea that CO2 is causing global warming that most of them haven't noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, with all the implications that has for whether we get enough to eat. Full story...

See also:

1. Argentine glacier defies global warming!!!
2. NASA study shows solar cycle, NOT man, is responsible climate change...
3. Rise of sea levels is 'the greatest lie ever told...'
4. Global cooling continues...
5. Global warming? Oops! We overlooked 193,000 square miles of ice...