Guardian’s Seed Nonsense
MAY 21, 2017
By Paul Homewood
Latest doommongering from the Guardian:
It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary temperatures over the winter, sending meltwater gushing into the entrance tunnel.
The vault is on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen and contains almost a million packets of seeds, each a variety of an important food crop. When it was opened in 2008, the deep permafrost through which the vault was sunk was expected to provide “ failsafe” protection against “the challenge of natural or man-made disasters”.
But soaring temperatures in the Arctic at the end of the world’s hottest ever recorded year led to melting and heavy rain, when light snow should have been falling. “It was not in our plans to think that the permafrost would not be there and that it would experience extreme weather like that,” said Hege Njaa Aschim, from the Norwegian government, which owns the vault.
theguardian.com
The temperature record at Svalbard Airport only goes back to 1977, but the nearest long running station is at Tromo on the north coast of Norway.
Annual temperatures there were just as high in the 1930s.
data.giss.nasa.gov
In particular, winter temperatures have been as high, and even higher, many times since 1921.
data.giss.nasa.gov
At Svalbard itself, the winter of 1985 was actually milder than this year’s.
But facts never bother the Guardian or its readers.
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Ian Magness PERMALINK
May 21, 2017 5:32 pm
This was, no doubt, an extremely expensive project, running into the millions of whatever currency they chose. Given the combination of the historical climate statistics with just a little common sense, just how stupid, if not to say deluded, can the sponsors have been to build what they did, where they did, in the way that they did? The mind truly boggles but, never fear, those responsible will not admit to the slightest degree of culpability – it was all the fault of “climate change”.
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