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Aussie farmers must adapt or perish in warmer world (Is complete BS)
This stuff drives me nuts. Australian farmers face a future climate that is drier, with more extremes of droughts and floods and an ability to adapt swiftly will be the key to the industry's survival, scientists say. Australia is the world's most arid inhabited continent. But farmers, through trial and error and a lot of pain and suffering, have turned the country into one of the world's breadbaskets whose wheat and meat exports are worth about A$8 billion (3.25 billion pounds) a year. Global warming and predictions of rapid climate change, however, are likely to mean more pain and challenges for Australia's grain, grazing and irrigation industries, says Mark Howden of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Sustainable Ecosystems division. "There will be winners and losers but it depends on where you are," said Howden, a senior researcher at CSIRO. For example, there has been a sharp decline in rainfall since the 1970s in Western Australia, where about 40 percent of Australia's wheat crop is grown. This is just not true according to the CSIROs own figures and conclusions, the south west is not getting drier and Western Australia overall is getting wetter - Link to CSIRO data. The big news this year is how cold its been and late frosts have severly impacted the wheat crop, but thats not the MSM agenda and doesn't get mentioned. Posted by: phil_b 2004-11-11 |
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