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How You Can Fight Global Warming
Worried about rising temperatures drastically effecting hunting and fishing in your area? Mark T. Sullivan talks about what you personally can do to beat the heat.
Photo by Erik Sandberg
Despite the grim situation the computer models foretell, there is hope.
The first thing you can do is start talking about these issues openly and candidly. Write letters to your congressmen and the editor of your local newspaper. Let them know that you care about climate change and the effect it is having and is likely to have on fish and game. If you don’t speak up, hunting and fishing will fall to the wayside as the rest of society struggles to adapt to the warming.
At the least, contribute to or volunteer for the nonprofit organizations that support the species you hunt or fish for. Many are at the forefront of the movement to save hunting and angling from climate change. They include: Ducks Unlimited, Trout Unlimited, BASS, the Izaak Walton League of America, the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Coastal Conservation Association, the American Sportfishing Association, Pheasants Forever, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, the Mule Deer Foundation, and the Foundation for North American Wild Sheep.
These groups are seeking to protect habitat, especially high-altitude terrain. The peaks and crags will become the last refuges of many cold-weather animals; they also cradle the headwaters of our rivers. Support these organizations, which are working to establish corridors of undeveloped land that will allow cold-sensitive animals to migrate.
On a more practical level, all hunters and anglers can start looking at the way they hunt and fish and decide if they can make changes. Fewer but longer hunting or fishing trips could save more fuel than taking several weekend excursions with multiple round-trip commutes. Buddy up. Drive to your favorite fishing or hunting areas with a friend or family member whenever you can. You’re saving money and putting less carbon in the sky, and it’s more social.
Get off the gasoline-powered ATV and walk whenever you can. You’ll be quieter, you’ll see more game, you’ll cut down on fossil-fuel consumption, and you’ll lose a few pounds in the process.
Climate is not weather. Some years will be marked by localized cold weather. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security. Despite the cold, which will probably be interspersed with much warmer temperatures and more rain than snow, global warming is still happening. —Mark T. Sullivan
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Bull ! You are the same fear mongers who sold magazines back in the seventies by proclaiming on your covers "The next global ice age is at hand!"
I'm sitting here in beautiful northern Michigan with three feet of snow on the ground, the same type of hard winter we had last year, and I knows that this coming year could be worse. Or it could be milder with no snow to speak of. These things come and go in cycles. Just like magazines.
Don Anderson
Irons, MI
So, what you are saying is that the science on this absolute and there is no doubt that this is occurring. That is absolutely nonsense. It's a theory. Theory isn't fact the last time I checked. In fact more and more scientists are rejecting this ridiculous claim. Global warming is a scare tactic used by the liberal left to get control of the economy and to be able to control people's behavior to their liking. I cannot believe that we believe predictions 100 years out from the same people that can't predict tomorrow's weather. It's an absolute travesty that Field and Stream would run an article like this. The same people that are perpetrating this lie are the same people that would love to put an end to the second amendment and our hunting and fishing privileges.
Global-warming may be real but the scare tactics are ridiculous. Shame on F&S!
I total agree with CJK "It's an absolute travesty that Field and Stream would run an article like this. The same people that are perpetrating this lie are the same people that would love to put an end to the second amendment and our hunting and fishing privileges."
and to add to my/his disgust:
1) F&S did not put the author on this load of bull
2) The 11 items in the conclusion of "what we can expect" contain 16 statements that include the word "SHOULD", 6 with "MAY", 3 with "WILL LIKELY" and at least 2 with "SCIENTIST BELIEVE" statements...
3) BASICALLY NONE OF THIS IS FACTS, JUST GUESSES AND SCARE TACTICS!
If there are real problems with our wildlife and game, it is a shame that it is getting lost in the global warming BS and we are missing the necessary research into what is the real cause.
If I wanted to read a some slanted bs about global warming that pimps an immediate cap on carbon emissions I'd cancel F&S and subscribe to Newsweek or Time.
Living in northeastern Minnesota I did notice an inaccuracy regarding the decline of the state's moose herd. The author mentioned the "northwestern Boundary Waters" herd. Actually there is no such thing; the so-called "Boundary Waters Herd" is actually the northeastern herd, currently numbering over 6000 animals. What the author failed to mention was the likelihood that brainworm, transmitted by the currently large deer population in this historically deer-scarse region, is resulting in high moose mortality.
The northwestern herd crashed beginning in the 1980s for reasons not fully known, but again extremely high deer populations and extreme numbers of winter tick infestations probably played a major role.
As for climate change, there is no doubt that it is occurring. Sure, this winter (and last) were a bit colder than average, with several mornings colder than -40 F in many locations here in northern Minnesota, cold winters have become increasingly infrequent in recent decades. In addition, most of the northern hemisphere has been warmer than normal AGAIN this winter, continuing the trend.
Sure, you can argue the shortfalls of putting your faith in the projections of computer models, but the physics of heat-trapping gases like CO2 are not debatable, nor are the measured increases
of these gases in the atmosphere. The planet is warming, and our grandkids will know a different environment than we have now.
I am a long time off-and-on F&S reader and just recently became a subscriber. The dissapointment in F&S that I experienced when my first issue arrived and THIS article was in there is hard to describe. Yes, there is climate change. There has ALWAYS been climate change. How else do you explain the Ice Ages that the earth experienced???? Many of these are well documented in the geological record and pre-date large scale habitation by man. Our politicians and other special interests groups are scaring the public onto the bandwagon. The science is faulty. We are basing the theory of climate change off of just more than 100 years of accurate, observed weather patterns. Want to know something the greenies don't want you to? Man-made sources are not the largest sources of CO2 emissions on Earth. They don't even make the top 10. The primary sources of CO2 are 1. Natural Decomposition (think your compost pile) and 2. Volcanic activity. And that assumes NORMAL volcanic activity. All it takes is one major eruption spewing volcanic ash high into the atmosphere to affect the global climate in the short term. If they are so concerned about CO2, regulate volcanoes! Let's put a cap and trade on them! Please, F&S, don't join this political bandwagon and remain impartial. Weather patterns, water levels, advance and retreat of wetlands and habitat gain/loss have been happening for millions of years. Species evolve and adapt or else.....Only now with the digital age is man able to track this in real time. Thanks for my rant!
I have yet to find a scientific explanation how the small amount of CO2 emmitted by mankind can cause a four-billion year old system to go out of whack. The F & S story had NO scientific information, only opinion and conjecture.
Please try the following link
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
There is plenty of science based information to show that mankind
CANNOT affect climate change.
I stopped my F & S subscription over this. I will not support those other organizations that have bought into this matter. I have been studying this man-made GW for some time and, again, have not found any scientific basis for the claims.
Dear Editors:
Ok, I've said my bit about the original article and it's on here for all to read. Now, what I'm really pissed about is the rebuttal in the Comments to the Editor section of this month's F&S. Yes, I am a member of Ducks Unlimited and the NWTF. As the editors have noted, DU has recognized climate change as a threat to game birds and other animals. But, it's always been a threat! What do you think was a leading cause to the mass extinctions in the past? Climate changed due to natural causes and therefore habitat changed. Man has NO control over this! But what really irked me was the last part of the Editors' rebuttal encouraging those of us not on the bandwagon to jump on the bandwagon. What do they take us for? Lemmings in the "Gore"-ite alliance? It's final. When my renewal for F&S comes in December, it's going directly in the trash. F&S will never get another dime from me. It's just sad that even a traditionally centerline magazine such as F&S has now bought into the scare tactics of the Liberal Left. At least I know that I've got 9 more issues of good tinder due to arrive in my mailbox.
Lets please recognize that over the earth's existence, there have been periods of high temperatures. It is well documented that what is now northern Alaska was once a lush, tropical forest that supported a HUGE population of dinosaurs. On average the temperatures were 40 degrees higher than they are today. Given that we are reading this, that temperature change did not destroy the planet. The period of warm and cooling occurred without any influence of mankind. As has been pointed out, there have been changes in species with the change in climate. It is intellectually vacant to think we can change any part of this great universe.
This article shows why some folks should never be allowed near a computer or typewriter.
Not only was this a nonsense article, with no journalistic value, it made mindless leaps of illogic with utterly no foundation.
The most recent (March 2009) actual sicnece from actual scientists can be found at:
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html
If Mr. Sullivan can, and will, read the report, it will become abundnatly clear that he was either a willing and useful "idiot" or has his own far left political agenda.
Please do not let this man into this magazine ever again.
For anyone reading this post, I urge you to take a rational look at the above site, A symposium of real scientists, reporting real findings on real climate data.
What a concept.
I was born in 1944,prior to me being born in In. my home state was covered by a glacier as the years went by it got warm enough to melt the glacier. I think we have been having climate since this thaw. I don't think humans had any thing to do with this warming. NO.1 we could do nothing to cause it nor can we do anything to stop it. The reason magazines and newspapers are going broke is because liberals run them. they print things that are unprovable. I know it has been a long time since I got out of school, but science is facts not conjecture or by a vote of 51 percent or more of those voting. Global warming is not a proven science, thus it can not be factual. If you believe we as hummans are causing climate change, you are way to far to the left. Now listen to me. Think about it, we are not the cause of climate change. Period. Ask yourself how your subscriptions are compared to 10, 15, 20, years ago, per hunter and fisherman. that's why I will not be renewing my subsription expires.
ChasW,
Thank you for posting the link to the Heartland Institute. Although I have yet to fully explore all the presentations, it is abundantly clear that the entire global warming scam is just that, a scam. The data is here, but yet the media does not report on it. To many Americans (and I'm generalizing here, so don't take offense) are either to stupid or ignorant, or have such unethical agendas, to recognize the brainwashing that is occurring on a GLOBAL level. Portions, if not all, of Europe have already bought into this. Although I am not a fan of China, I have to give them credit for not signing on to the Kyoto treaty. Whether for environmental or socioeconomic reasons, they and the US have done the right thing. Now the question is whether or not the current administration will run this country into the ground with environmental regulation.
There is some interesting irony in this whole matter. There is a big push to save wetlands which is just fine. HOWEVER, in my study of this global warming thing I keep finding that natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gases than ALL man-made sources combined. Another post mentioned this.
The greenhouse effect is a necessary event. Without it our nighttime temperatures would drop significantly making growing crops (our food!) almost impossible.
The other interesting fact I keep finding is that while CO2 levels have risen (and fallen) over time, these changes lag temperature. If CO2 lags temperature, then it cannot be causing the temperature change (increase or decrease).
I have subscribed to F&S for over 40 years. This BS that you are promoting as fact has me deeply disturbed. Why are the ice caps on other planets receding as well as ours? Has NASA sent shuttle loads of gas guzzling SUV's up there without our knowledge? I am agonizing about whether to continue with F&S or to drop it after all these years. I have kept nearly every copy so I guess I can go back and read back issues when radical liberals weren't running the show! I'll hang on a little longer to see if F&S will reverse directions and print a fact based article in a few months.
I can't remember the word "fact" coming from that article. Nor can I remember a time when I have heard so much crap from other readers. Cancel your subscriptions, there are 20 other people lined up to get this magazine. Sounds like to me, we have a handful of scientists here that "know" fact. If it is a FACT that global warming is not happening, then show some facts. You can't use, "Well where I live it was really super cold this winter, so thats not warm, so global warming is a lie!" That's just uneducated and ignorant. When one of you can show me some facts that global warming is NOT going on, then I call you all liars and perceive you all as left wingers trying to change all of our minds. Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it? Show some facts people before you go off ranting about something I am sure not many of you really know that much about.
There is NOTHING we can do about global warming or climate change. Global warming is 300 year old news. The current warming trend began about 300 years old at the low point of the Little Ice Age. This rising trend and fluctuations within it are related to solar & celestial activity, not increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). Actual earth temperatures have been decreasing since 1999. Solar activity during the early 20th Century caused a substantial rise in temperatures. This was followed by a cooling cycle. During this latter period (including 1970's), the press and environmentalists spread "doomsday" scenarios about "global cooling." Now that temperatures appear to be rising again, the change has allowed "Al Gore & Friends" to spread fears of "global warming"--demonizing hydrocarbon fuels & capitalism.
Global warming, "cap-and-trade," central planning and redistribution of wealth are the religion of socialists running Washington, DC today. CO2 is NOT a pollutant and is NOT a poison. CO2 is absolutely essential for life on earth. Our current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 380 ppm or 0.038%. One hundred years ago, the CO2 level was 280 ppm. Without greenhouse warming, the earth would be too cold to sustain its current abundance of life. At least 90% of greenhouse warming is due to…water vapor and clouds. CO2 is a small player. Doubling the CO2 concentration will increase the earth’s temperature only one degree according to scientists at Princeton University. This increase in CO2 is NOT a cause for alarm or reason to penalize & destroy our US economy and standard of living. Speak up! Tell your family, friends and enemies.
I urge all hunters & fishermen to speak out and urge Congress NOT to pass the “American Clean Energy and Security Act.” Most of the policies in this bill are being tried in the European Union and are failing. Cap-and-trade is part of this bill before Congress and will be another transfer of wealth from the US consumer to government and big-business special interests. This bill will cut greenhouse emissions by further undermining economic growth, provoking trade wars and global economic collapse.
Great post by B. Capkovic.
For further thought why the Cap-and Trade is bad business, consider the following:
Congress does not have the authority, let alone the ability, to alter the climate. Mother Nature has an agenda and path we cannot alter.
The Field and Stream article that sparked this discussion called on sportsmen to contact their representatives and leverage this global warming hoax to advance hunting and fishing. That alone was a bad idea since it would imply the government had authority where they do not. It is unfortunate that other hunting and fishing organizations have followed suit. Pheasants Forever featured a story in their summer journal that was even more irresponsible than the Field and Stream story.
I just read the editorial rebuttal to the letters in the April 2009 issue in my dentist's office. I agree with vtminer that the editor just doesn't get it. He certainly doesn't listen to his subscribers. Global warming is a scam; and as these posts show, most thinking people understand that. It seems like it is mainly city-bound liberals that buy into the man-made global warming nonsense. They need to get some fresh air and clear their heads. I don't know what the editor's excuse is.
If global warming is real i want to know why i was outside in the frezzing cold in the harsh michigan weather. This year was incredibally cold and there was a very decent snowfall. If these global warming poeple would go back and look at some records and read a almanac these woud understand what is really going on in our enviroment. If people would stop causing social chaos and read some stats they would relize what they are saying is wrong and ridiculous. So next time any one wants to talk global warming they need to check their facts and take a step into the freezing cold michigan or any northern satte's winter and tell me the world is warming up.
To DuckZilla:
Recent research has stated Global Warming does not exist. It's been proven [in court] that the scientists in charge of the Global Warming research altered the numbers to make the concept fit. The head scientist then said he "lost" the documentation that showed it does exist....BS. It is fact that Climate Change is occurring. As several post indicated natural cause introduce more CO2 than man can [Wetlands/Volcano]. Climate Change is part of the Earth's natural cycle. It is documented fact that is was a hotter climate in the Mid-Ages than it is now. Reasons for the change in climate is the due to the magnetic poles shifting [has happened several times in the Earth's history], as well as the change of the continental plates' motion [most moving back toward each other....Pangaea like].
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Bull ! You are the same fear mongers who sold magazines back in the seventies by proclaiming on your covers "The next global ice age is at hand!"
I'm sitting here in beautiful northern Michigan with three feet of snow on the ground, the same type of hard winter we had last year, and I knows that this coming year could be worse. Or it could be milder with no snow to speak of. These things come and go in cycles. Just like magazines.
Don Anderson
Irons, MI
So, what you are saying is that the science on this absolute and there is no doubt that this is occurring. That is absolutely nonsense. It's a theory. Theory isn't fact the last time I checked. In fact more and more scientists are rejecting this ridiculous claim. Global warming is a scare tactic used by the liberal left to get control of the economy and to be able to control people's behavior to their liking. I cannot believe that we believe predictions 100 years out from the same people that can't predict tomorrow's weather. It's an absolute travesty that Field and Stream would run an article like this. The same people that are perpetrating this lie are the same people that would love to put an end to the second amendment and our hunting and fishing privileges.
Lets please recognize that over the earth's existence, there have been periods of high temperatures. It is well documented that what is now northern Alaska was once a lush, tropical forest that supported a HUGE population of dinosaurs. On average the temperatures were 40 degrees higher than they are today. Given that we are reading this, that temperature change did not destroy the planet. The period of warm and cooling occurred without any influence of mankind. As has been pointed out, there have been changes in species with the change in climate. It is intellectually vacant to think we can change any part of this great universe.
If I wanted to read a some slanted bs about global warming that pimps an immediate cap on carbon emissions I'd cancel F&S and subscribe to Newsweek or Time.
I am a long time off-and-on F&S reader and just recently became a subscriber. The dissapointment in F&S that I experienced when my first issue arrived and THIS article was in there is hard to describe. Yes, there is climate change. There has ALWAYS been climate change. How else do you explain the Ice Ages that the earth experienced???? Many of these are well documented in the geological record and pre-date large scale habitation by man. Our politicians and other special interests groups are scaring the public onto the bandwagon. The science is faulty. We are basing the theory of climate change off of just more than 100 years of accurate, observed weather patterns. Want to know something the greenies don't want you to? Man-made sources are not the largest sources of CO2 emissions on Earth. They don't even make the top 10. The primary sources of CO2 are 1. Natural Decomposition (think your compost pile) and 2. Volcanic activity. And that assumes NORMAL volcanic activity. All it takes is one major eruption spewing volcanic ash high into the atmosphere to affect the global climate in the short term. If they are so concerned about CO2, regulate volcanoes! Let's put a cap and trade on them! Please, F&S, don't join this political bandwagon and remain impartial. Weather patterns, water levels, advance and retreat of wetlands and habitat gain/loss have been happening for millions of years. Species evolve and adapt or else.....Only now with the digital age is man able to track this in real time. Thanks for my rant!
I have yet to find a scientific explanation how the small amount of CO2 emmitted by mankind can cause a four-billion year old system to go out of whack. The F & S story had NO scientific information, only opinion and conjecture.
Please try the following link
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/GlobWarmTest/start.html
There is plenty of science based information to show that mankind
CANNOT affect climate change.
I stopped my F & S subscription over this. I will not support those other organizations that have bought into this matter. I have been studying this man-made GW for some time and, again, have not found any scientific basis for the claims.
Dear Editors:
Ok, I've said my bit about the original article and it's on here for all to read. Now, what I'm really pissed about is the rebuttal in the Comments to the Editor section of this month's F&S. Yes, I am a member of Ducks Unlimited and the NWTF. As the editors have noted, DU has recognized climate change as a threat to game birds and other animals. But, it's always been a threat! What do you think was a leading cause to the mass extinctions in the past? Climate changed due to natural causes and therefore habitat changed. Man has NO control over this! But what really irked me was the last part of the Editors' rebuttal encouraging those of us not on the bandwagon to jump on the bandwagon. What do they take us for? Lemmings in the "Gore"-ite alliance? It's final. When my renewal for F&S comes in December, it's going directly in the trash. F&S will never get another dime from me. It's just sad that even a traditionally centerline magazine such as F&S has now bought into the scare tactics of the Liberal Left. At least I know that I've got 9 more issues of good tinder due to arrive in my mailbox.
This article shows why some folks should never be allowed near a computer or typewriter.
Not only was this a nonsense article, with no journalistic value, it made mindless leaps of illogic with utterly no foundation.
The most recent (March 2009) actual sicnece from actual scientists can be found at:
http://www.heartland.org/events/NewYork09/proceedings.html
If Mr. Sullivan can, and will, read the report, it will become abundnatly clear that he was either a willing and useful "idiot" or has his own far left political agenda.
Please do not let this man into this magazine ever again.
For anyone reading this post, I urge you to take a rational look at the above site, A symposium of real scientists, reporting real findings on real climate data.
What a concept.
I was born in 1944,prior to me being born in In. my home state was covered by a glacier as the years went by it got warm enough to melt the glacier. I think we have been having climate since this thaw. I don't think humans had any thing to do with this warming. NO.1 we could do nothing to cause it nor can we do anything to stop it. The reason magazines and newspapers are going broke is because liberals run them. they print things that are unprovable. I know it has been a long time since I got out of school, but science is facts not conjecture or by a vote of 51 percent or more of those voting. Global warming is not a proven science, thus it can not be factual. If you believe we as hummans are causing climate change, you are way to far to the left. Now listen to me. Think about it, we are not the cause of climate change. Period. Ask yourself how your subscriptions are compared to 10, 15, 20, years ago, per hunter and fisherman. that's why I will not be renewing my subsription expires.
Global-warming may be real but the scare tactics are ridiculous. Shame on F&S!
I total agree with CJK "It's an absolute travesty that Field and Stream would run an article like this. The same people that are perpetrating this lie are the same people that would love to put an end to the second amendment and our hunting and fishing privileges."
and to add to my/his disgust:
1) F&S did not put the author on this load of bull
2) The 11 items in the conclusion of "what we can expect" contain 16 statements that include the word "SHOULD", 6 with "MAY", 3 with "WILL LIKELY" and at least 2 with "SCIENTIST BELIEVE" statements...
3) BASICALLY NONE OF THIS IS FACTS, JUST GUESSES AND SCARE TACTICS!
If there are real problems with our wildlife and game, it is a shame that it is getting lost in the global warming BS and we are missing the necessary research into what is the real cause.
ChasW,
Thank you for posting the link to the Heartland Institute. Although I have yet to fully explore all the presentations, it is abundantly clear that the entire global warming scam is just that, a scam. The data is here, but yet the media does not report on it. To many Americans (and I'm generalizing here, so don't take offense) are either to stupid or ignorant, or have such unethical agendas, to recognize the brainwashing that is occurring on a GLOBAL level. Portions, if not all, of Europe have already bought into this. Although I am not a fan of China, I have to give them credit for not signing on to the Kyoto treaty. Whether for environmental or socioeconomic reasons, they and the US have done the right thing. Now the question is whether or not the current administration will run this country into the ground with environmental regulation.
There is some interesting irony in this whole matter. There is a big push to save wetlands which is just fine. HOWEVER, in my study of this global warming thing I keep finding that natural wetlands produce more greenhouse gases than ALL man-made sources combined. Another post mentioned this.
The greenhouse effect is a necessary event. Without it our nighttime temperatures would drop significantly making growing crops (our food!) almost impossible.
The other interesting fact I keep finding is that while CO2 levels have risen (and fallen) over time, these changes lag temperature. If CO2 lags temperature, then it cannot be causing the temperature change (increase or decrease).
There is NOTHING we can do about global warming or climate change. Global warming is 300 year old news. The current warming trend began about 300 years old at the low point of the Little Ice Age. This rising trend and fluctuations within it are related to solar & celestial activity, not increasing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2). Actual earth temperatures have been decreasing since 1999. Solar activity during the early 20th Century caused a substantial rise in temperatures. This was followed by a cooling cycle. During this latter period (including 1970's), the press and environmentalists spread "doomsday" scenarios about "global cooling." Now that temperatures appear to be rising again, the change has allowed "Al Gore & Friends" to spread fears of "global warming"--demonizing hydrocarbon fuels & capitalism.
Global warming, "cap-and-trade," central planning and redistribution of wealth are the religion of socialists running Washington, DC today. CO2 is NOT a pollutant and is NOT a poison. CO2 is absolutely essential for life on earth. Our current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is 380 ppm or 0.038%. One hundred years ago, the CO2 level was 280 ppm. Without greenhouse warming, the earth would be too cold to sustain its current abundance of life. At least 90% of greenhouse warming is due to…water vapor and clouds. CO2 is a small player. Doubling the CO2 concentration will increase the earth’s temperature only one degree according to scientists at Princeton University. This increase in CO2 is NOT a cause for alarm or reason to penalize & destroy our US economy and standard of living. Speak up! Tell your family, friends and enemies.
I urge all hunters & fishermen to speak out and urge Congress NOT to pass the “American Clean Energy and Security Act.” Most of the policies in this bill are being tried in the European Union and are failing. Cap-and-trade is part of this bill before Congress and will be another transfer of wealth from the US consumer to government and big-business special interests. This bill will cut greenhouse emissions by further undermining economic growth, provoking trade wars and global economic collapse.
Living in northeastern Minnesota I did notice an inaccuracy regarding the decline of the state's moose herd. The author mentioned the "northwestern Boundary Waters" herd. Actually there is no such thing; the so-called "Boundary Waters Herd" is actually the northeastern herd, currently numbering over 6000 animals. What the author failed to mention was the likelihood that brainworm, transmitted by the currently large deer population in this historically deer-scarse region, is resulting in high moose mortality.
The northwestern herd crashed beginning in the 1980s for reasons not fully known, but again extremely high deer populations and extreme numbers of winter tick infestations probably played a major role.
As for climate change, there is no doubt that it is occurring. Sure, this winter (and last) were a bit colder than average, with several mornings colder than -40 F in many locations here in northern Minnesota, cold winters have become increasingly infrequent in recent decades. In addition, most of the northern hemisphere has been warmer than normal AGAIN this winter, continuing the trend.
Sure, you can argue the shortfalls of putting your faith in the projections of computer models, but the physics of heat-trapping gases like CO2 are not debatable, nor are the measured increases
of these gases in the atmosphere. The planet is warming, and our grandkids will know a different environment than we have now.
I have subscribed to F&S for over 40 years. This BS that you are promoting as fact has me deeply disturbed. Why are the ice caps on other planets receding as well as ours? Has NASA sent shuttle loads of gas guzzling SUV's up there without our knowledge? I am agonizing about whether to continue with F&S or to drop it after all these years. I have kept nearly every copy so I guess I can go back and read back issues when radical liberals weren't running the show! I'll hang on a little longer to see if F&S will reverse directions and print a fact based article in a few months.
Great post by B. Capkovic.
For further thought why the Cap-and Trade is bad business, consider the following:
Congress does not have the authority, let alone the ability, to alter the climate. Mother Nature has an agenda and path we cannot alter.
The Field and Stream article that sparked this discussion called on sportsmen to contact their representatives and leverage this global warming hoax to advance hunting and fishing. That alone was a bad idea since it would imply the government had authority where they do not. It is unfortunate that other hunting and fishing organizations have followed suit. Pheasants Forever featured a story in their summer journal that was even more irresponsible than the Field and Stream story.
I just read the editorial rebuttal to the letters in the April 2009 issue in my dentist's office. I agree with vtminer that the editor just doesn't get it. He certainly doesn't listen to his subscribers. Global warming is a scam; and as these posts show, most thinking people understand that. It seems like it is mainly city-bound liberals that buy into the man-made global warming nonsense. They need to get some fresh air and clear their heads. I don't know what the editor's excuse is.
If global warming is real i want to know why i was outside in the frezzing cold in the harsh michigan weather. This year was incredibally cold and there was a very decent snowfall. If these global warming poeple would go back and look at some records and read a almanac these woud understand what is really going on in our enviroment. If people would stop causing social chaos and read some stats they would relize what they are saying is wrong and ridiculous. So next time any one wants to talk global warming they need to check their facts and take a step into the freezing cold michigan or any northern satte's winter and tell me the world is warming up.
To DuckZilla:
Recent research has stated Global Warming does not exist. It's been proven [in court] that the scientists in charge of the Global Warming research altered the numbers to make the concept fit. The head scientist then said he "lost" the documentation that showed it does exist....BS. It is fact that Climate Change is occurring. As several post indicated natural cause introduce more CO2 than man can [Wetlands/Volcano]. Climate Change is part of the Earth's natural cycle. It is documented fact that is was a hotter climate in the Mid-Ages than it is now. Reasons for the change in climate is the due to the magnetic poles shifting [has happened several times in the Earth's history], as well as the change of the continental plates' motion [most moving back toward each other....Pangaea like].
I can't remember the word "fact" coming from that article. Nor can I remember a time when I have heard so much crap from other readers. Cancel your subscriptions, there are 20 other people lined up to get this magazine. Sounds like to me, we have a handful of scientists here that "know" fact. If it is a FACT that global warming is not happening, then show some facts. You can't use, "Well where I live it was really super cold this winter, so thats not warm, so global warming is a lie!" That's just uneducated and ignorant. When one of you can show me some facts that global warming is NOT going on, then I call you all liars and perceive you all as left wingers trying to change all of our minds. Sounds pretty stupid doesn't it? Show some facts people before you go off ranting about something I am sure not many of you really know that much about.
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