Global Warming: Winter Sun Get-Aways To The Arctic
GLOBAL warming has many guises. And now the Express reports that it has done for David Bowman’s pumpkins.
“I’ve never known a year like this one in 35 years of growing pumpkins,” says farmer Bowman. “It rained and rained and they hated it.”
Bowman’s pumpkins need heat. He’s got them indoors in a bid to make them turn orange, the vegetables sat on sunbeds getting fake bake in time for Halloween.
But there is another remedy. As the Independent reports on its front page: “RECORD TEMPERATURES IN ARCTIC HEATWAVE 22 DEGREES C.”
Steady on Stelios. The runway has yet to be rolled out on the melting tundra. But the hope is that the Arctic can be the breadbasket of the world, and rival Tenerife for winter sun.
True enough it will be the only part of planet Earth above the waterline, but think of the pumpkins.
“’Exceptional’ heat demonstrates scale of global warming in Arctic,” says the Indy’s headline.
That’s the good news. And it gets better as the Indy notes that the North-West passage is finally clearing.
On August 21 this year, the North-West Passage around the top of Canada was “opened to ships not armed with icebreakers for the first time since records began”.
An easy journey means less power needed and less oil burned. And the chance to get goods Made in China direct from source delivered on a slow boat to Leeds-on-sea.
Anchors away!
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
The consequences of the thawing of the Arctic could bring dangerous situations in the future. Many scientists are predicting an increasing of the sea-level surface that could wipe out islands completely.
Another negative factor could be the destruction of thousands of miles of coastlines as the sea level increases. More destructive hurricanes are most likely to form as more greenhouse gases are emitted. I’m afraid this is a scary situation.
Just my two cents on this touchy subject.
Regards,
Omar.-
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:47 pm
No topping? not even a Flake?
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Noah way
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Oh I’ll have a Magnum then
October 4th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
“It rained and rained and they hated it.”
How does he know? Did he ask them?
“Be back in a jiff dear I”m just going out to the pumpkin patch for a chat”
Arctic seas open? 75 degrees Farenheit in Wisconsin on October 3rd?
We’re all doomed, doomed I tell ‘ee!
All this and QPR? It’s too much!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:15 am
We could solve the beaver problem by bringing back the fashion for those tall hats….