-THE CITY OF HOUSTON HAS NOW GONE 234 CONSECUTIVE DAYS BETWEEN 1.00 INCH RAIN EVENTS (JAN 24 2011).

THIS IS NOW THE LONGEST STREAK IN CITY HISTORY.

THE PREVIOUS LONGEST DURATION BETWEEN 1.00 INCH RAIN EVENTS WAS 192 DAYS AND OCCURRED DURING THE FALL AND WINTER OF 1917-1918.

–AGRICULTURAL IMPACTS…

AGRICULTURAL LOSSES FROM THE EXTENDED DROUGHT ARE EXTREME.

ADDING TO THESE COSTS ARE FREQUENT WILDFIRES WHICH HAVE DESTROYED FENCING, HAY SUPPLIES AND BARNS AND SCORCHED WHAT SPARSE GRAZING REMAINED.

EVEN IF RAIN RETURNED NOW…IT WILL BE SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE GRASSES WILL RECOVER. STATEWIDE…ABOUT 5500 MILES OF FENCING AND 2.6 MILLION ACRES OF PASTURE HAVE BEEN LOST TO FIRES.

HAY WAS NO LONGER BE HARVESTED.

LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS CONTINUED TO CULL HERDS AND IN MANY SITUATIONS COMPLETELY LIQUIDATED HERDS.

LARGE TREES WERE DYING OR DORMANT ACROSS SOUTHEAST TEXAS.

THE COST TO IRRIGATE RICE HAS DOUBLED OVER LAST YEAR.

THE SEASONAL DROUGHT OUTLOOK ISSUED SEPTEMBER 15TH 2011 VALID THROUGH NOVEMBER DOES NOT OFFER MUCH HOPE.

DROUGHT CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST OR INTENSIFY THROUGH THE AUTUMN MONTHS.

THE OUTLOOK FOR THE REMAINDER OF SEPTEMBER FAVORS WARMER THAN NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND BELOW NORMAL RAINFALL.

Given that you acknowledge that 80s forecast of climate reality now, do you think it is possible that your great grandsons in Texas farming might also be facing the even more dire realities that climate scientists forecast for decades ahead?

You know very well that people can destroy land. You’ve almost certainly seen examples.

Just think a bit and see if you can’t think of things we’ve done like pollute rivers so much that they became fire hazards. Killed off a lot of our eastern forests with acid rain.

We may not be able to create a universe, but we sure can poop all over our part.

Maybe get off your ranch sometime and look how we’ve built up large parts of our world. Look at how many buildings we’ve built and how much land we’ve covered with pavement. Get up to the western coal pits and over to the blasted off mountaintops of the east. Stand outside a coal plant and count the car loads of coal that come in every day for burning.

Aren’t we suppose to be good stewards? Looks like we might have tripped up on this one….

Science Daily has a piece up today about where things stand…

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110906085145.htm

This would eliminate much of the waste and likely produce much more affordable protein.

Take a wider look around. You see any parts of the country where ranchers are having trouble providing their herds graze? That number starting to look a little higher than normal? (Here’s a hint, look at the western part of Texas and up into Oklahoma.)

How about grain production getting messed up by unusual amounts of rain and flooding?

Finally look south of you. That weather down there, if scientists are right that weather will be your weather in the future and your weather will be north of you.

If you look at things like planting season data it’s happening. Spring is coming earlier, winter showing up later.

And, when it does snow, plan on having to dig out deeper for your herd. We’ve got a lot more water up above us these days and when it comes down, it now comes down in big buckets of snowflakes.

You might be lucky. You might be sitting somewhere that would be helped by warming up.

Others aren’t.

If your figure is right, it would mean that the US population is consuming 4 times more steaks and milk than the Swiss who are already suffering from all sorts of diseases due to excessive feeding on meat and dairy products, although 40% of the meat returns to the waste container.

Could it be that proportionally the USA have a quadruple cow lifestock versus Switzerland’s which is already oversized by an order of magnitude?

Here’s some edifying info anyway, telling you all the ghastly evidence:

http://www.animalsaustralia.org/factsheets/dairy_cows.php

No one tampered with data — this has been the conclusion of about SEVEN independent reviews now: http://planetsave.com/2011/09/02/yes-climategate-was-science-denier-b-s/
That humans (who are part of nature, mind you) cannot destroy anything is pure idiocy. Sorry, can’t think of a better word for it.

If you notice, these responses relate to scientific studies written by climate scientists and communicated by scientists. Unlike all the nonsense in the comment by the troll.

*Living* is difficult in extreme drought, flooding, and other natural disasters — i.e. in the world climate science denier nuts are creating for us all. So, instead of wishing good luck (or praying for rain), maybe you could accept the scientific consensus and help in combating the problem, rather than delaying action indefinitely.

Miss Kraemer claims that climate change is causing a decline in cattle ranching.
The people who claim climate change is man’s fault, list cattle ranching as a primary source of greenhouse gases.

Therefore shouldn’t a reduction in cattle farming cause the earth to cool?

I, personally, believe the earth’s climate is going to do whatever it feels like no matter how much we disapprove.

A single california forest fire can produce a much greenhouse gas as every automobile in America does in a year’s time. It was estimated that one volcano, I don’t remember which, produced as much greenhouse gas over the course of a year as man has since he began walking upright.

The green religion is the height of conceit. It rests on the premise that the acts of man are somehow not natural, that man controls nature. This would mean that man is supernatural. I don’t think so. If I were, I would be a lot better looking and a lot thinner.

When a herd of elephants moves through an area the virtually wipe out the vegetation along their path. We don’t accuse them of destroying nature.

When a herd of widebeeste are grazing, we don’t expect them to leave some for the Impala.

Every creature in nature acts solely in its own self-interest. We expect man to act differently and claim it is in the interest of nature. Hold the Kool-aid. I’m trying to quit.

Because of the jet and highs, it’s been so cold and wet in the Northwest agriculture has been called a national disaster.