September 2, 2009: A widespread frost last night destroyed crops
across a ten state area, famine expected.

Does global warming scare you? Has Al Gore made you nervous every warm winter day? Does the possibility of an increase of one degree Centigrade over the next century keep you up at nights? If yes, you are worrying about the wrong things. One aspect of the AGW hoax is the argument that a little warming is a bad thing. In reality, warming has been a boon to human societies resulting in increases in health and populations throughout history. A little warming is unlikely to be much of a problem.

If you want to be terrified, imagine a hard frost five weeks earlier than normal across the growing regions of North America. Imagine a early September frost two years in a row. We aren’t talking about a new ice age here. Just imagine a few hours below freezing across the farm belt one night early in September. The destruction of crops would be devastating. Two years in a row would cause world wide famine. It is pretty easy to imagine a wide ranging frost a few weeks early. It has happened before. Could it happen again?

Three factors are vital to crops: the light and warmth of the sun, adequate rainfall and the carbon dioxide they need for photosynthesis. As we are constantly reminded, we still have plenty of that nasty, polluting CO2, which the politicians are so keen to get rid of. But there is not much they can do about the sunshine or the rainfall.

It 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.

This month has seen 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. The weather has been cooling for more than a decade and the gas that is the basis for life on this planet is now considered a poison.

Team Obama has declared C02 a pollutant. Plants need C02 to live. The current level of atmospheric CO2 is 385 parts per million (PPM). Plant growth stops at 200 PPM. Plant growth is optimized at 1,000 PPM. More C02 and warmer weather means more food. Less C02 and cooler weather means less food. One cold night in early September will make all the alarmism about drowning polar bears seem pretty damned trivial.

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