tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post459904148853360910..comments2024-02-02T05:45:33.724-06:00Comments on Incoming: John Phippshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03245790061133614986noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post-84593347831359874392012-08-12T06:44:51.102-06:002012-08-12T06:44:51.102-06:00VA:
I thought that assertion unfounded as well, b...VA:<br /><br />I thought that assertion unfounded as well, but it may refer to the fact that even though 34 & 36 had remarkably hot periods, the more recent above-normal events are running longer and over a wider area. The top four hottest 12-month periods have been those ending in April, May, June and July 2012. With a warm fall, we could set all the top ten warmest 12-mo period records.<br /><br />Yippee.<br /><br />Regardless, I thought the statement odd, even inaccurate.<br /><br />My takeaway is an affirmation of what ISU climatologist Gene Takle said about 5 years ago: for the Corn Belt, AGW means longer and more frequent droughts; larger and more frequent rain events.John Phippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245790061133614986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post-16991460096998954102012-08-11T16:32:26.493-06:002012-08-11T16:32:26.493-06:00John,
We tend to look only at our lifetime. For ...John,<br /><br />We tend to look only at our lifetime. For someone to say: "Before 1980, excessively hot summers were practically non-existent." makes it obvious they did not live through the 1930s. But, I think our world and atmosphere are sufficiently complex that we need to take a very long view rather than basing conclusions on a brief half century.From Virginianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post-84192807719519121822012-08-06T11:12:52.179-06:002012-08-06T11:12:52.179-06:00Dave:
I'm trying to avoid being defensive her...Dave:<br /><br />I'm trying to avoid being defensive here, but I get this "your outside income" disclaimer all the time. <br /><br />I farmed for 35 years without crop insurance or considerable outside income. <br /><br />While nobody questions the man whose wife brings in the family living expenses and health coverage, somehow those of us who find a way to market unused time are using "unfair competitive advantage" or something. Jan and I decided the best solution was for me to work two jobs and her take on extra farm duties. It has not been easy for her either to manage with me gone so much, especially before Aaron returned.<br /><br />I do make considerable outside income, but it is damn hard work, and nobody pays me because I'm cute. In fact, most of my customers are repeats, which I am proud of.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Ahem...I seem to have unloaded excessively here, but for all those farmers running bulldozers or selling seed or adjusting insurance claims, being dismissed as special cases whose farms don't really have to make money really rankles.John Phippshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03245790061133614986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27951078.post-88258382133356962982012-08-06T10:28:52.814-06:002012-08-06T10:28:52.814-06:00State of Play
John the problem with the Gobl Warmi...State of Play<br />John the problem with the Gobl Warming advocates is that they refuse to even look at the climate (temperature) pattern of the past. I, for one, am not ready to accept gobal warming until that assessment is done. After that then it's time to logically discuss the long term solution to the issue and it is not to only curtail using energy. If we're going to have that discussion then it HAS to include population control.<br />On the subject of crop insurance I do agree the current national situation and the solutions have me rethinking purchase of insurance. Over the last several years, and i do not have as many as you do in farming, insurance has twice allowed me to continue on for another year to recover from a disastous weather event; one was a hurricane and another was drought. I do not have to farm to provide sufficent income to live, the farm only has to pay for itself. With your outside income I suspect you are in the same situation.Dave in VAnoreply@blogger.com