Y2Kyoto: A Scam By Any Other Name

Climate change is also the reason Kuala Lumpur City Hall is increasingly turning to shady trees, because flowers which previously formed the centrepiece of its beautification programme have been wilting fast.

My guess if that the flowers are wilting because they aren't getting watered enough.
Just another negative aspect of environmental policy.

For a number of years now, roses are being bred to be scentless because the unscented ones live longer, thus you get the visual beauty of roses for a longer period.

Experiments have shown that bees are attracted to flowers based on color.
Blue is most attractive.

Global warming is corrupting the credibility of more "scientists" in different fields all the time.

as I said this morning, many illogical steps in this premise.

To bad that global warming isn't working on the smelly hippies that still wander around.

It would be a simple cure and might even make me want to believe it.

I have often noted that roses don't really have a scent. Any botanists out there?

Perhaps the loon just want us all to smell some roses and notice that the damage is already done ... then get angry and trash somebody's truck.

The scent of roses has been replaced by the much more pungent scent of the global warming scam.

Air pollution might just be the culprit. After all, we can prove it's there.

an now this.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100322/iceland_volcano_100322/20100322

with floods as "big as the amazon" and a built in excuse for global cooling .

OH. MY. GOD.

What will they come up with next?

Lefty sh*t still smells as bad as it always did, anyways.

So planting flowers not native to the ecostructure, that don't grow well in that ecostructure, is supposed to be a surprise?
D'oh!

Excuse me while I go outside and water my coconut tree.

AGW Farmer Al GreenGore here ....bbbrrrrppppp....

Yuall give up yer hair dryers for Earff Hour?
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"Meat, Dairy diet not tied to global warming

The Washington Times ^ | March 23, 2010 | Jennifer Harper

Forget all that indecorous talk of animal flatulence, cow burps, vegetarianism and global warming. Welcome to Cowgate.

Lower consumption of meat and dairy products will not have a major impact in combating global warming — despite persistent claims that link such diets to more greenhouse gases. So says a report presented Monday before the American Chemical Society.

It is the bovine version of Climategate, complete with faulty science and noisy activists with big agendas.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ..."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2477295/posts

Uncle Mao Stlong's loses doing poolry, says Mao's nephew, Canadian "Liberal leader" Boob Lae.
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"The quantity of flowers produced in Yunnan has plummeted as well, from one million to roughly 700,000 a day, but the price has risen some 50 per cent from last year. On average, the province sends about 14,000 roses to Hong Kong every day, and exports tens of thousands of flowers to overseas markets including Japan, Russia and Thailand.

“A top-quality red rose, for instance, used to be sold at between one yuan and 1.5 yuan, but this year, prices range from 1.5 yuan to two yuan because of the drought," Hu Yang , of Yunnan Lidu Flower Development."
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"Worst drought in a century wipes out harvests in southwestern China"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2477341/posts

The hippies don't care until it affects their outdoor grow ops.

‘Mao Stlong' was only funny the first 1,892 times.

Abe Froman wrote: "Perhaps the loon just want us all to smell some roses and notice that the damage is already done ... then get angry and trash somebody's truck."

Very Jack Handey-ish, or maybe early Olympics-resister-ish:)

I guess the bees disappearing is just too 'yesterday.'

"Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) director-general Datuk Dr Abdul Latif Mahmod said recently the extreme weather change might affect the life span of trees as a result of lighter or heavier rain." --- Is it possible that global warming has already fried most people's ability to reason,or question stupidity?

"I have often noted that roses don't really have a scent. Any botanists out there?" Posted by: Abe Froman

The fancy tea roses generally don't have much scent. Last summer the coulees with the wild rose bushes smelled terrific. Haven't smelled them in months. Now I know it's the oilsands wrecking our air.

Could be just more people and cars - that would be the logical answer. Last time I was there, many years ago, rickshaws and bikes were used, roads were not crowded and the population was lower.

"I have often noted that roses don't really have a scent. Any botanists out there?" Posted by: Abe Froman

Thought they did Abe...at least the ones I smelled.

"Science and Technology Professor Emeritus at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Dr Abdul Latif Mohamad, said genetically modified flowers might be the way out."

No.No. Abdul! The "way out" is to tax the hell out of the citizens via another global warming scam! Money will make the roses smell better.

Knowing the warmists, they send people out with no sense of smell. To test the oder of flowers. Its their style. Find another phony result, its the only kind they accept.
Its the UN & their catastrophic dogs at work. Hounding up more lies.
JMO

"I have often noted that roses don't really have a scent. Any botanists out there?" Posted by: Abe Froman

I have noted that this seems to be a factor related to the type of rose. Go to one of those rose gardens with lots of different types and you will see that some smell -- some do not. Off hand I think the reds and maybe pinks smell . . . less so yellow or white (or maybe it's the opposite) Not summer now, so I forget.

The answer is obvious!
Tulip bulbs again.

The plentiful pink wild roses you see in parks and everywhere here on the West coast do have a magic scent and strong too.

Wanna make some easy cash?? Place a want ad in that Singapore paper for {Magic scented rose seeds], You'll clean up.

Just be careful when stealing rose seeds from public parks. They grow in the bush too. Harvesting on crown land would be safer.

More vehicular traffic and exhaust would be my guess. We have a park nearby and the oak trees in the park have been suffering for years. The City arborists say it's all the taffic on the adjacent major roadway. Or at least that's what they said a few years back. Maybe they're on the AGW bandwagon themselves now.

Scentless roses are just nature's way of helping all those poor folk who have scent allergies. Of course it might just be because their sinuses are plugged.

Hybrid roses do not have the powerful scent of natural varieties. Most roses you buy in Canada are hybrids and the flowering canes are grafted to tougher root stock. These grafted Frankensteins also have less scent because of the chemistry.

If natural roses are losing their scent it is likely because the horticulturalists are breeding out the scent by forcing pollination and diminishing scent (a reproductive mechanism) out of the cycle.

A form of forced Darwinian effect.

If you go to Niagara Falls and sit in the Rose Garden there you will certainly notice the perfume.

Think of the roses!

Butchart Gardens:

"June brings the fragrant scent of roses to the air and the last two weeks of the month are reserved especially for them, showcasing some of the most beautiful varieties you’ll ever see"

http://www.essortment.com/all/butchartgardens_rjpf.htm

This issue reminds me of the so-called "endangered" bald eagle, which can be seen twenty-at-a-time on the coast of Vancouver Island.

Just depends where you are.

"Knowing the warmists, they send people out with no sense."

FTFY

It really is too bad that one eco-climate nutbar isn't sterilized each time one of us starts our trucks! That would be so cool. Some of us would need rebuild starter motors quite often!

Yeah, the climate of Kuala Lumpur has changed big-time, it used to be 37 C in the shade every day, now it's 37.1 ... of course, if they hadn't burned down every tree within five thousand miles of the place, it might be a bit nicer too.

If they burned down every tree within five thousand
miles of Kuala Lumpur, Peter, then how is it that an
estimated 59% of Malaysia is forested at this time?

I believe it does make a great difference which roses...smell wise.
I recall seeing vast fields of RED roses....Romania I think......which were grown for an oily extract for perfume...ATTAR OF ROSES....
This Malaysian "scientist.....is just another rent seeker.

Man there are some smart people here. I have 4 hybrid roses. Three have little scent but a creamy yellow one can be smelled 20 feet away downwind. That rose flowers once and phfft. The others flower up until frost and I wonder how they make it through -40 without setting the rose hips but so far they have.

Chutzpahrticular Buchart links continued with great photos ..

http://tinyurl.com/ydxk8q7

The Bucharts are much improved since I was there years ago.

Anybody notice the whiff of Lysenkoism here? "The aroma producing chemical compounds in flowers dry up faster now compared with before."

The only way out, he said, was to genetically modify the flowers so that the effects would not be permanent and the future generation would not be robbed of nature's beauty."

He's suggesting that the flowers acquire the characteristic of diminished scent, and pass that on to their offspring. I call BS. Much more likely the converse would happen. If the climate warmed, causing the scent to dissipate faster, and if the scent were necessary to attract pollinators, then those flowers that managed to produce even more scent would have an adaptive advantage.

Thanks, Tony G! Absolutely beautiful. I was in Victoria a week ago, but I haven't been to the Butchart Gardens for years.

OMG, I haven't laughed that hard in months - thanks Kate!

Every time I start my truck a rose garden dies.... Then quit parking in the flower bed!

sorry, me bad.

btw, down in Texas you can find nurseries with rows and rows of roses, in every variety imaginable. kind of like canines, most of these things have a pedigree and have been bred for certain characteristics, some for colour and some for scent. It's not my idea of a hobby but still enjoyable to admire.

Why, I was commenting on this phenomena only the other day. I was walking past the bullpen and I said to me wife, "You know what, things just don't smell like they used to out here, do you think it could be climate change."

Mr. MacMaster, I think your story is a load of bull ;-)

Maybe the roses are as fragrant as ever it's just that the people smelling them have depleted olfactory capabilities due to having their nose wedged up some climate prophet's (profits?) arse.

That's enough to kill the most sensitive nose's ability to smell a scam.

It's been a good year for the roses.