How To Behave At A Climate Change Conference

Thank God for Australia....

For this year’s UN climatefest in Warsaw, Poland, Tony Abbott’s government didn’t even bother to send the environment minister, much less the Prime Minister and his pre-teen fan mail. (Hit the link above.)
Instead we sent some delegates who quite properly treated the whole exercise as a lark, much to the consternation of Gaia’s little Gracies. “They wore T-shirts and gorged on snacks throughout the negotiation,” fumed Ria Voorhaar, a spokeswoman for the Climate Action Network. “That gives some indication of the manner they are behaving in.”

Back in 2009, Rudd negotiated pointlessly for 40 hours, grabbing just one hour of sleep. This year’s Australian delegates don’t go for that sort of nonsense. “They made an intervention that late-night negotiations were bad for health and should be stopped,” complained Voorhaar.

And the meetings were indeed halted, with many blaming the snack-chomping Aussies and their t-shirts. “Their behaviour caused over 130 developing nations to abandon discussions on the controversial issue of climate compensation at 4am,” seethed Sophie Yeo of the activist group Responding to Climate Change. “It is one thing to be tired in a negotiation meeting, another to turn up in pyjamas,” huffed EU negotiator Paul Watkinson on Twitter. “Respect matters.”

With all due respect, the EU and the UN can shove it

Well played, Australia.  Well played. 

 

Debating a change

I'm still having problems with this G***D*mn Blogger/Blogspot program. It won't let me write anything on the "Compose" page. Everything has to be done in HTML. That's good practice, but Lord have mercy, I'm slow at it. Time for a change, I think.

A ruling on the tariffs of Canadian sundials and birdbaths

I hope we can agree on the following statements.

1) The most fair trade of all is free trade.  All fair trade is free, and vice-versa.  If a certain industry or product line gets an exemption, the trade is no longer "fair".
2) Protecting industries from foreign competition merely rewards industry owners.  The net harm to purchasers is greater than the net gain by fat cats and their employees.
3) Congress gets itself elected by selling exemptions to the tax code.  Some of these are to reward contributors, while others are put in place to punish competitors.  Many of these exemptions can still be found, long after the original bribes contributions were paid, lingering around in the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule.  Nobody remembers why hamster wheels have a different import tariff rate than coffin handles.  You could turn a team of librarians loose in the Congressional Record for years, and they would fail to discover why javelins and jump ropes enter the country at different tax rates.

Go here and behold some of the tiny subdivisions that these Civil Service Lifers have invented to keep themselves busy and their contributors happy.  Can you imagine any rational excuse for Canadian sundials and Canadian birdbaths to be taxed at a different rate?

This is just one of the hundreds of thousands of queries and rulings that government trolls, hobbits, pygmies and elves churn out every day.  Enjoy.  And then lobby for a flat tariff.  1.5% should work nicely.  Think of the labor savings.  First person to lobby for an exemption gets crucified on the 50 yard line during the next Super Bowl halftime.

******

December 3, 1993

CLA-2-83:S:N:N3:113 892510

CATEGORY: CLASSIFICATION

TARIFF NO.: 8306.29.0000; 9403.20.0010

Ms. Patricia A. Bielaski
Tower Group International, Inc.
128 Dearborn Street
Buffalo, NY 14207-3198

RE: The tariff classification of sundials, plant stands and birdbaths from Canada

Dear Ms. Bielaski:

In your letter dated November 16, 1993, on behalf of Metalcraft Spinning and Stamping, Ltd., you requested a tariff classification ruling.

The merchandise consists of painted aluminum articles on pedestal bases that will be displayed primarily on lawns and in gardens. Three samples were submitted with your request. One is a green sundial measuring approximately 21 inches high with an 11-inch diameter top and a 9-inch diameter base. The sundial is clearly ornamental in nature. The other two samples are plant stands which can be used inside or outside the home. They are designed to rest upon a floor or lawn, and meet the definition of furniture for classification purposes. One stand is green and the other is white. Both measure approximately 27 inches high with a 15 1/2-inch diameter top and a 12-inch diameter base. The plant stand can also function outdoors as a birdbath.

The applicable subheading for the sundial will be 8306.29.0000, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for statuettes and other ornaments, of base metal. The rate of duty will be 5 percent ad valorem.

Goods classifiable under subheading 8306.29.0000, which have originated in the territory of Canada, will be entitled to a 2.5 rate of duty under the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) upon compliance with all applicable regulations.

The applicable subheading for the plant stand and birdbath will be 9403.20.0010, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for other metal furniture, household. The rate of duty will be 4 percent ad valorem. Goods classifiable under subheading 9403.20.0010, HTS, which have originated in the territory of Canada, will be entitled to a free rate of duty under the United States-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) upon compliance with all applicable regulations.

This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section 177 of the Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).

A copy of this ruling letter should be attached to the entry documents filed at the time this merchandise is imported. If the documents have been filed without a copy, this ruling should be brought to the attention of the Customs officer handling the transaction.

Sincerely,

Jean F. Maguire
Area Director

*******

We are paying people to interpret this shit.
Have a good weekend!!

Let's Save Fuel With Barack!!!

Here's Obama's weekly speech on whatever, properly illustrated with pics of him on his private 747, the one that he flew to Chicago to deliver a speech on his fuel-saving plan.... 

Hi, everybody. As a nation, our top priority is growing our economy and creating good middle class jobs. That’s why this week I’m speaking to you from the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, because few areas hold as much promise as what they’re focused on right here — harnessing American energy.

You see, after years of talking about it, we’re finally poised to take control of our energy future. We produce more oil than we have in 15 years. We import less oil than we have in 20 years. We’ve doubled the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar — with tens of thousands of good jobs to show for it. We’re producing more natural gas than ever before — with hundreds of thousands of good jobs to show for it. We’ve supported the first new nuclear power plant since the 1970s. And we’re sending less carbon pollution into the environment than we have in nearly 20 years. So we’re making real progress.

But over the past few weeks, we got a reminder that we need to do more. We went through another spike in gas prices, just like last year, and the year before that. It happens every year. It’s a serious blow to your budget — like getting hit with a new tax coming right out of your pocket. Over the past four years, as part of our all-of-the-above energy strategy, we’ve taken steps to soften that blow by making sure our cars use less gas.

We’ve put in place the toughest fuel economy standards in our history so that by the middle of the next decade, our cars will go twice as far on a gallon of gas. Over the life of a new car, the average family will save more than $8,000 at the pump. But the only way we’re going to break this cycle of spiking gas prices for good is to shift our cars and trucks off of oil for good.

That’s why, in my State of the Union Address, I called on Congress to set up an Energy Security Trust to fund research into new technologies that will help us reach that goal. Here’s how it would work. Much of our energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So I’m proposing that we take some of our oil and gas revenues from public lands and put it towards research that will benefit the public, so that we can support American ingenuity without adding a dime to our deficit. We can support scientists who are designing new engines that are more energy efficient; developing cheaper batteries that go farther on a single charge; and devising new ways to fuel our cars and trucks with new sources of clean energy — like advanced biofuels and natural gas — so drivers can one day go coast-to-coast without using a drop of oil.

Now, this idea isn’t mine. It’s actually built off a proposal put forward by a non-partisan coalition of CEOs and retired generals and admirals. So let’s take their advice and free our families and our businesses from painful spikes in gas prices once and for all. And in the meantime, let’s keep moving forward on an all-of-the-above energy strategy. A strategy where we produce more oil and gas here at home, but also more biofuels and fuel-efficient vehicles; more solar power and wind power.

A strategy where we put more people to work building cars, homes and businesses that waste less energy. We can do this. We’re Americans. And when we commit ourselves to something, there’s no telling how far we’ll go. Thanks and have a great weekend.

And don't do anything to encourage global warming - TWS

New Senator From Hawaii Wants To Change The Weather

The recently deceased senator Daniel Inouye was, by most accounts, a good guy.  But he also brought enough pork from Washington to Hawaii to sink the islands.  Daniel Inouye was serious about bringing home the bacon.  He wasn't ashamed of being knows as "The King Of Pork". 

I predict that Daniel Inouye (and my sympathies go out to all his contractors, bureaucrats, looters, and contributors, BTW) will soon be seen as an amatuer. 

His replacement, Brian Schatz, wants to change the weather.  Go here. 

The replacement for the late Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye (D) said Wednesday that climate change is at the top of his legislative agenda.

"For me, personally, I believe global climate change is real and it is the most urgent challenge of our generation,” Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz (D), whom Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D) tapped for the seat, said in brief comments Wednesday.

Let me go waaaaaay out on a limb here, and say that Brian Schatz is full of shit. 
He's going to try to implement some carbon taxes, get some more money for green energy boondoggles, and hire a plague of regulators to pester the productive members of society.  He might try requiring people to purchase "carbon offsets" (LOL) from one of the Al Gore/Kleiner Perkins companies. 
Let's assume that the amount of carbon we put into the air changes the weather. 
Let's assume that the remedies listed above are helpful in some small way. 

You cannot individually undertake any green energy rituals that will offset one trip to Hawaii, unless you're willing to travel by kayak. 

I'll start believing in man-made climate change when Brian Schatz encourages people from the U.S. mainland to stay home instead of travelling to Hawaii.   Until that day, he should be viewed as a con artist.  End of story. 

Update from Friday afternoon:  Cold weather in Europe and Asia is killing hundreds of people. 

More Art to be seen in Fort Worth !!

I'm probably going to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth for the first time this weekend.  (I've made dozens of trips to the Kimball and Amon Carter already.)

I'm looking forward to seeing this piece:

Here's the description, from The Modern's website:

Diagonal of May 25


1963

Dan Flavin

American, 1933-1996

Warm white fluorescent light, edition 2/3

96 inches

Although Dan Flavin is invariably described as one of the patriarchs of Minimalist sculpture—along with his colleagues Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Carl Andre, and Robert Morris—he has generally rejected the appellation "Minimalist" and even the term "sculpture" as too confining a designation, often pointing out that his works are ephemeral, temporary, and installed in relation to given architectural conditions. Flavin began making his signature works of industrially prefabricated fluorescent tubes and fixtures in 1963. Emanating different colors of light, Flavin's installations have an indeterminate volume and appear virtually without mass, and it is true that their ethereal presence remains distinct from the emphatic physicality of most Minimalist sculpture. A more rigorous connection can be seen with Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades, which offer an important precedent for Flavin's off-the-shelf materials and his reliance on the common, found object. Like Duchamp, Flavin considered his works to be "proposals" rather than sculptures, part of a system of investigations rather than static objects.

Diagonal of May 25, 1963, 1963 is one of Flavin's first and most important investigations into the formal possibilities of using standard fluorescent light fixtures in commercially available colors. The image of the diagonal was a critical early theme executed by the artist, in series and according to simple mathematical configurations. Flavin made a number of diagonal "proposals" in different colors, alternating their angles from right to left. Flavin executed the first diagonal in gold light, subsequently making diagonals in green, yellow, and red. The Museum's Diagonal of May 25, 1963 may be the most conceptually and formally pure work in the series: pure white, ultraviolet light.

In his 1965 essay "'...in daylight or cool white.' an autobiographical sketch," Flavin refers to the Diagonal of May 25, 1963 as a "diagonal of personal ecstasy" describing its "forty-five degrees above horizontal" position as one of "dynamic equilibrium." The artist envisioned the diagonal as a contemporary symbol that "in the possible extent of its dissemination as a common strip of light or a shimmering slice across anybody's wall, had the potential for becoming a modern technological fetish."(1)

– Michael Auping

(1) Dan Flavin, "'...in daylight or cool white.' an autobiographical sketch," Artforum 4 (December 1965): 20–24.

********

Which do you think took longer?  Going to a hardware store and buying an 8-foot flourescent light fixture, or writing the excess verbiage posted above? 

For an explanation of this, check out Tom Wolfe's mini-masterpiece "The Painted Word". 

I can't wait. 

Things Caused By Global Warming

This is fascinating.
Have you noticed something strange, but don't know why it's happening?
Blame The Earth Goddess !!! We have offended her, and must atone !!
Here's the almost complete, reasonably canonical list of Things Caused By Global Warming. 
I defy you to read the links without laughing.  No need to hit 'em all, but try a few anyway. 

AIDS, Afghan
poppies destroyed, African
holocaust, aged
deaths, poppies
more potent, Africa
devastated,  Africa
in conflict, African
aid threatened,  aggressive weeds, Air
France crash, air
pockets, air
pressure changes,  airport
farewells virtual, airport
malaria, Agulhas
current, Alaskan
towns slowly destroyed, Al
Qaeda and Taliban Being Helped, allergy
increase, allergy
season longer, alligators
in the Thames, Alps
melting, Amazon
a desert, American
dream end,  amphibians
breeding earlier (or not),  anaphylactic
reactions to bee stings,  ancient
forests dramatically changed, animals
head for the hills, animals
shrink,  Antarctic
grass flourishes, Antarctic
ice grows, Antarctic
ice shrinks, Antarctic
sea life at risk,   anxiety
treatment, algal
blooms, archaeological
sites threatened, Arctic
bogs melt, Arctic
in bloom, Arctic
ice free, Arctic
ice melt faster, Arctic
lakes disappear,  Arctic
tundra lost, Arctic
warming (not), a
rose by any other name smells of nothing, asteroid
strike risk, asthma,
Atlantic
less salty, Atlantic
more salty,   atmospheric
circulation modified, attack
of the killer jellyfish, avalanches
reduced, avalanches
increased,  Baghdad
snow, Bahrain
under water,  bananas
grow, barbarisation,
bats decline, 
beer and bread prices to soar, beer
better,  beer
worse, beetle
infestation,
beef shortage,  bet for
$10,000, big
melt faster, billion
dollar research projects, billion
homeless, billions
face risk, billions of
deaths,  bird
loss accelerating, bird
populations dying, bird
strikes, bird
visitors drop, birds
confused, birds
decline (Wales), birds
driven north, birds
face longer migrations, birds
on long migrations threatened,  birds
return early, birds
shrink(Aus), birds
shrink (USA), bittern
boom ends, blackbirds
stop singing, blackbirds
threatened, Black
Hawk down,  blizzards,
blood
contaminated, blue
mussels return, borders
redrawn,  bluetongue, brains
shrink,
brewers droop, bridge
collapse (Minneapolis), Britain
one big city, Britain
Siberian, Britain's
bananas, British
monsoon,  brothels
struggle, brown
Ireland, bubonic
plague,  Buddhist
temple threatened,  building
collapse, building season extension, bushfires, 
butterflies move north, butterflies
reeling, butterfly
saved, carbon
crimes, caribou
decline,
Cambodian sex trade fuelled,
camel
deaths,  cancer,
cancer
deaths in England,
cannibalism,  cataracts,
cats more amorous,
caterpillar
biomass shift,
cave paintings threatened, 
chagas disease, childhood
insomnia, children's
mental health, chocolate
shortage, Cholera,
circumcision
in decline, cirrus
disappearance, civil
unrest, cloud
increase,  clownfish
get lost, coast
beauty spots lost, cockroach
migration, cod
go south,  coffee
threatened, coffee
berry borer, coffee berry disease,
cold
climate creatures survive,  cold
spells, cold
spells (Australia), colder
waters  (Long Island), cold
wave (India), cold
weather (world), cold
winters, computer
models, conferences, conflict,
conflict
with Russia,  consumers
foot the bill, coral
bleaching,
coral fish suffer, coral
reefs dying, coral
reefs grow, coral
reefs shrink, coral
reefs twilight, 
cost
of trillions, cougar
attacks, crabgrass
menace, 
cradle of civilisation threatened, creatures
move uphill, crime
increase, crocodile
sex, crocodiles
driven from water, crops
devastated, crop
failures increase, cross-breeding,
crumbling
roads, buildings and sewage systems, cryptococcal
disease, curriculum
change,  cyclones
(Australia),   damselflies
forced back to UK, danger
to kid's health, Darfur,
Dartford
Warbler plague,  daylight
increase, deadly
virus outbreaks, death
rate increase (US), death
rate drop, deaths
to reach 6 million, decades
of progress at risk, Dengue hemorrhagic
fever, depression,
desert
advance,  desert
retreat,  destruction of the
environment,  dig
sites threatened,  disasters, diseases
move north, diving
reefs closed, dog
disease,  dozen
deadly diseases - or not,
drought,
   ducks
and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn
belt, dust
doubles,  earlier pollen
season,  Earth
axis tilt, Earth
biodiversity crisis, Earth
crumbling, Earth
dying, Earth
even hotter, Earth light
dimming, Earth
lopsided, Earth
melting, Earth
morbid fever, Earth
on fast track, Earth
past point of no return, Earth slowing down,
Earth
spins faster, Earth to explode,
earth upside down,  earthquakes,
earthquakes
redux, El Niño
intensification,
end of the world as we know it, erosion,
emerging infections,
encephalitis,
English
villages lost, equality
threatened, Europe simultaneously
baking and freezing,  eutrophication,
everyplace hit hardest,
expansion of university climate groups,

extinctions

(apes,
human, civilisation, koalas, lizards, 
logic, Inuit,
smallest
butterfly, cod, 
penguins, pikas,
polar bears, 
possums,
walrus,  tigers,
toads, turtles,
pandas,
penguins,
plants,
ladybirds,
rhinoceros, salmon, trout,
wild flowers, woodlice,
a million
species, half of all
animal and plant species, mountain
species,  not
polar bears, barrier
reef, leaches,
salamanders,
tropical insects, flowers)

experts
muzzled, extreme changes to
California, fading
fall foliage,  famine, farmers
benefit, farmers
go under, farm
output boost, farming
soil decline,  fashion
disaster, fever,
figurehead
sacked, fir
cone bonanza, fires
fanned in Nepal, fish
bigger, fish
catches drop, fish
downsize,
fish
deaf,  fish
feminised, fish get
lost, fish
head north, fish
lopsided, fish
shrinking,  fish
stocks at risk, fish stocks
decline, five
million illnesses, flesh
eating disease, flies
on Everest,  flood
patterns change, floods,
 floods
of beaches and cities, flood
of migrants, flood
preparation for crisis, flora
dispersed, Florida
economic decline, flowers
in peril,
flowers wilt, flying
squirrels move up, fog
increase in San Francisco, fog
decrease in San Francisco, food
poisoning, food
prices rise, food
prices soar, food
production increased,  food
safety affected, food
security threat (SA), football
team migration,   forest
decline, forest
expansion, foundations
threatened, foundations
increase grants, frog
with extra heads, frosts, frostbite,
frost
damage increased,   fungi fruitful, fungi
invasion, fungi
rot the world, games
change, Garden
of Eden wilts, geese
decline in Hampshire, genetic
changes, genetic
diversity decline, gene
pools slashed, geysers
imperiled, giant
icebergs (Australia), giant
icebergs (Arctic), giant
oysters invade,  giant
pythons invade, giant
squid migrate, gingerbread
houses collapse, glacial
earthquakes, glacial retreat,  glacier
grows (California), glaciers
on Snowden, glacier
wrapped,
glass melts, global
cooling,  glowing
clouds,  golf
course to drown, golf
Masters wrecked, grain
output drop (China), grain
output stagnating (India), grandstanding,
grasslands
wetter, gravity
shift,  Great
Barrier Reef 95% dead,  great
tits cope, greening
of the North,  Grey
whales lose weight, Gulf
Stream failure, habitat
loss, haggis
threatened, Hantavirus pulmonary
syndrome,    harvest
increase, harvest
shrinkage, hay fever
epidemic, health
affected, health
of children harmed,
health
risks, health
risks (even more), heart
deaths, heart
disease,
heart
attacks and strokes (Australia),
heat waves, hedgehogs
bald, hibernation
affected,   hibernation
ends too soon, hibernation
ends too late,  homeless 50
million,

home runs, hornets,
human
development faces unprecedented reversal, human
fertility reduced, human
health risk, human
race oblivion, human
rights violations, hurricanes,
hurricane
reduction, hurricanes
fewer, hurricanes
more intense, hurricanes
not,  hydropower
problems, hyperthermia
deaths, hyphthermia
deaths, ice
age,
ice hockey extinct,
ice sheet
growth, ice sheet
shrinkage, icebergs, ice sheet
tipping point,  illegal
immigration, illness
and death, inclement weather,
India
drowning, infrastructure
failure (Canada),  indigestion,
industry
threatened, infectious
diseases,  inflation
in China,
insect
explosion, insect
invasion, insurance premium
rises, Inuit
displacement, Inuit
poisoned, Inuit
suing, invasion
of alien worms, invasion
of Antarctic aliens,  invasion
of Asian carp, invasion
of cane toads, invasion
of caterpillars,  invasion
of cats,  invasion
of crabgrass, invasion
of herons, invasion
of jellyfish, invasion
of king crabs, invasion
of lampreys, invasion of
midges, invasion
of pine beetles, invasion
of rats (China), invasion
of slugs, 
island disappears, islands
sinking, Italy
robbed of pasta, itchier poison ivy,
Japan's
cherry blossom threatened,  jellyfish
explosion, jets
fall from sky,  Kew
Gardens taxed, kidney
stones, killer
cornflakes, killing
us, kitten boom, koalas
leaves inedible, koalas
under threat, krill
decline, 
lake empties, lake
shrinking and growing, landslides, landslides
of ice at 140 mph, large
trees decline, lawsuits
increase, lawsuit successful,
lawyers'
income increased (surprise surprise!),  lawyers
want more, legionnaires'
surge, 
lives lost,

lizards super intelligent, lives
saved,

lobsters grow,  Loch
Ness monster dead, locust
plagues suppressed, low
oxygen zones threaten sea life, lush
growth in rain forests,  Lyme
disease, Major
vegetation shifts,  Malaria,
  Malaria
decline,  malnutrition,
mammoth
dung melt, mammoth
ivory bonanza, manatees battle, mango
harvest fails, Maple
production advanced, Maple syrup
shortage, marmots
fatter, marine
diseases, marine
food chain decimated, Meaching
(end of the world), Meat
eating to stop, Mediterranean
rises, megacryometeors,
Melanoma, Melanoma
decline, mental
health decline, mental
illness, methane
emissions from plants, methane
burps,
methane runaway, melting
permafrost, Mexican
climate migrant flood, Middle
Kingdom convulses, migration,
migratory
birds huge losses, microbes to
decompose soil carbon more rapidly, milk
production lost, minorities
hit, monkeys
at risk,  monkeys
on the move, Mont
Blanc grows,

monuments
imperiled, moose
dying, more
bad air days,   more
research needed, mortality
increased, mosquitoes
adapting, mountain
(Everest) shrinking,  mountaineers
fears,  mountains
break up, mountains
green and flowering,   mountains
taller, mortality
lower, Mubarak fall, murder
rate increase,  musk
ox decline, Myanmar
cyclone, narwhals
at risk, narwhals
suffocate, National Parks
damaged, National
security implications, native
wildlife overwhelmed, natural
disasters  quadruple, neurological
diseases,  new
islands, next
ice age, NFL
threatened, Nile
delta damaged, noctilucent
clouds, no
effect in India, Northwest
Passage opened, nuclear
plants bloom, oaks
dying,  oaks
move north, 
obesity, oblivion,ocean
acidification, ocean
acidification faster, ocean
dead spots, ocean
dead zones unleashed, ocean
deserts expand, ocean
salt extremes, ocean
oxygen crisis,  ocean
waves speed up,  Olympic
Games to end, opera
house to be destroyed, outdoor
hockey threatened,   owls
turn brown, oxygen
depletion zones, oyster
herpes, ozone
repair slowed, ozone rise, peat
bogs problem,

peat bogs no problem,
penguin
chicks frozen, penguin
chicks smaller, penguins
in the dark, penguin
populations devastated, penguins
replaced by jellyfish,

penguins sex lives affected,
personal
carbon rationing, pest
outbreaks, pests
increase, pets
in danger, phenology
shifts,  pines
decline, pirate
population decrease, pirates
run rampant, plankton
blooms,   plankton
plummeting, plankton
wiped out, plants
lose protein, plants
march north, plants
move uphill, 
polar
bears aggressive, polar
bears cannibalistic, polar
bears deaf, 
polar
bears drowning,  polar
bears fewer cubs,  polar
tours scrapped,  pollination
halved, porpoise
astray, profits
collapse, psychiatric
illness,  psychological
effects,  puffin
decline, pushes
poor women into prostitution, rabid
bats,  radars taken out,
rail network threatened,  railroad
tracks deformed, rainfall
increase, rainforest
destruction,  rape
wave, refugees,
reindeer
endangered, reindeer
larger, release of ancient frozen
viruses, resorts
disappear,
respiratory diseases worsen,  rice
less fragrant, rice
production fall, rice
threatened, rice
yields crash,  rift on Capitol
Hill, rioting
and nuclear war,   river
flow impacted, river
rerouted, rivers
raised, road
accidents, roads
wear out, robins
rampant,   rocky
peaks crack apart, roof
of the world a desert, rooftop
bars, Ross
river disease,    Russia
under pressure, salinity
reduction, salinity
increase,  Salmonella,
salmon
stronger, sardine run
unpredictable, satellites
accelerate,
Schmallenberg
virus,  school
closures, sea level rise,
sea level rise
faster, sea
snot, seals
mating more, seismic
activity, sewer
bills rise, severe
thunderstorms, sex
change, sexual
dysfunction, 
sexual promiscuity, shark
attacks, sharks
booming,

sharks hybridise, sharks moving
north, sheep
change colour, sheep
shrink, shop
closures, short-nosed
dogs endangered,  shrimp
sex problems, shrinking
ponds, shrinking
sheep, 
shrinking shrine, Sidney
Opera House wiped out, ski
resorts threatened, slavery,
skinks
impacted, slow
death, 
smaller brains,  smog, snowfall
decrease, snowfall
increase, snowfall
heavy, 
snow thicker,  soaring
food prices, societal
collapse, soil
change, soil
subsidence, songbirds
change eating habits, sour
grapes, soybean
crop to drop, space
junk increase, space
problem, spectacular
orchids, spider
danger in UK, spider
bites to increase, spiders
getting bigger, spiders
invade Scotland,  squid
aggressive giants, squid
larger, squid population
explosion, squid
tamed, squirrels
reproduce earlier, starfish
sperm eaten by parasites, stingray
invasion, storm
damage costs rise, storms wetter,
stratospheric
cooling, street
crime to increase, subsidence, suicide,
sunset
displaced,  swordfish
in the Baltic, Tabasco tragedy,
taxes, tea
flavour change, tectonic
plate movement, teenage
prostitution,   terrorists
(India), thatched
cottages at risk, threat
to peace, ticks
move northward (Sweden), tides
rise, tigers
eat people, tigers
drown, tomatoes
rot, tornado
outbreak, tourism
increase,
toxic bacteria, toxic
seaweed,  trade
barriers, trade winds weakened,
traffic
jams,  transport
snarl, transportation
threatened, tree foliage increase
(UK),   tree
growth slowed, tree
growth faster, trees
grow too fast, trees
in trouble, trees
less colourful,  trees
more colourful, trees
lush, trees
on Antarctica, treelines
change, tropics
expansion, tropopause
raised, truffle
shortage, truffles
down, 
truffles increase, turtles
crash, turtle
feminised, turtles
lay earlier, UFO
sightings, UK
coastal impact, UK
Katrina,  vampire bats,  Venice
flooded,  volcanic
eruptions, volcanoes
awakened in Iceland, 
walnuts
threatened, walrus
pups orphaned,  walrus
stampede,  walruses
come ashore, wars over
water, wars
sparked, wars
threaten billions, wasps,
water bills double,
water
shortage to increase vegetarianism, wave
of natural disasters, waves
bigger, weather
out of its mind, weather
patterns awry,
weather patterns last longer,
Western
aid cancelled out,  West
Nile fever, whale
beachings, whales
lose weight, whales
move north,  whales
wiped out, wheat
rust in Syria, wheat
yields crushed in Australia,  wild
boars thrive, wildfires, wind
shift, wind
reduced, winds
stronger, winds
weaker,  wine
- Australian baked, , wine
industry damage (California), 
wine industry disaster (US), 
wine - more
English,
wine
- no
more French ,
wine -  England
too hot, wine
-German boon,  wine
passé (Napa), wine
- Scotland best,  wine
stronger, winters
in Britain colder, winter
in Britain dead, witchcraft
executions, wolverine
decline, wolverines
vanish, wolves
eat more moose, wolves
eat less, women
cheat on vacation, workers laid
off, World
at war, World
War 4,  Yellow
fever, zebra
mussel threat, zoonotic
diseases.

and all on 0.006 deg C per year! 

Be careful out there !!!