Excerpt Washington Post article:
How Midwest drought damaged US economic growth as well as farmland crops
The worst drought in decades didn’t just shrivel corn and soybeans. It shrank economic growth too.And the Christian Science Monitor notes in
The government said Friday that the U.S. economy grew at a modest 2 percent annual rate from July through September. And the crop-killing drought reduced growth by 0.4 percentage points.
That means normal weather would have lifted economic growth to 2.4 percent for the quarter...
Blocking patterns: How global warming might have worsened US drought
The immediate culprit: patterns of atmospheric flow that steer storms along a given path for weeks, heating and depriving some areas of needed rain while drenching others. Such blocking patterns are a global phenomena, a normal component of Earth's weather systems.So when Romney/Ryan call for fewer alternative energy programs they are not just helping kill off new alternative energy economic stimulus, they are hurting farmers and the US economy. And they intend to use more coal which is even a worse Global Warming source than other old energy fuels.
But some researchers suggest that global warming's influence on the Arctic and on the tropics can change circulation patterns in ways that keep blocking patterns in place longer than they otherwise might.
Retrain coal miners or pension them off and educate their kids for the new economy and new energy or at least another energy field. Don't destroy farming in the US.
Farmers and people living in farm economy areas should really think about voting for Obama.
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