Crops - world-wide - under stress due to cooler weather

June 13, 2009 by Walter Schneider.

It is very odd that the mainstream media in North-America is not covering this critical issue, either in part or in detail.

Well, at least one major newspaper in the U.K. did; via a journalist who, as usual, writes objectively and realistically about the climate, its trends and consequences.

Telegraph.co.uk

June 13, 2009

Crops under stress as temperatures fall

Our politicians haven’t noticed that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, observes Christopher Booker.

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.

There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people….(Full Story)

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