http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/7193129/What-global-warming-really-looks-like?comment_msg=posted#post_comment

Warmer-than-usual winters also allow tree-killing mountain pine beetles to survive the winter and attack Western forests, leaving behind dry wood to fuel wildfires earlier in the season, Running said.

“At the point where the average global temperature rise hits 10°C, “even Siberia reaches values exceeding anything in the present-day tropics” and many populated parts of the globe might become, if habitable at all, places where the relatively affluent would likely find themselves “imprisoned” in air-conditioned spaces and where “power failures would become life-threatening.” Lacking access to AC, the world’s poor would have little choice but to flee. Even “modest” global warming, Huber and Sherwood conclude, could “expose large fractions of the population to unprecedented heat stress.”

…MH: I get hate mail and death threats on a regular basis. I’m used to thatl…I have seen some commentary by nonscientists on blogs and most of them say that I’m just another “cap-and-tax” green freak who wants big government and to outlaw guns.
…MJ: If we do ever reach 12 degrees warming, what might that look like on the ground? Give me your sci-fi movie scenario.

MH: My nightmare. I’m in Oklahoma on a hot summer day. Under a heat lamp. Running. Wrapped in plastic.

MJ: This could clearly be a selective biological pressure on humans. Would we end up eventually evolving to deal with greater heat, as you report that mammals did during the Eocene era?

MH: The most direct way for humans to respond physiologically, which would take thousands of years if at all (we are most likely to change our behaviors) is to get small and skinny, to decrease our volume and maximize our surface area so we can lose heat more effectively”

http://tomnelson.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/mar-2012-purdue-warmist-matthew-huber.html

The name “Sherwood” rings a bell too (Steven Sherwood, Hubers colleague at Australia’s University of New South Wales, taken to task by Jo Nova on occasions)

Maybe a cure for the epidemic has been found, or perhaps it’s been there all the time.

Secondary forest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_growth_forest

A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has re-grown after a major disturbance such as fire, insect infestation, timber harvest or windthrow, until a long enough period has passed so that the effects of the disturbance are no longer evident. It is distinguished from an old-growth forest (primary or primeval forest), which have not undergone such disruptions, as well as third-growth forests that result from severe disruptions in second growth forests.
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Depending on the forest, the development of primary characteristics may take anywhere from a century to several millennia. Hardwood forests of the eastern United States, for example, can develop primary characteristics in one or two generations of trees, or 150-500 years.
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It takes a secondary forest typically forty to 100 years to begin to resemble the original old-growth forest……
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Today most of the forest of the United States, the eastern part of North America and Europe consist of secondary forest.

Well how ’bout that?

Does my denier arse look big in this?

Some recipes here http://blogs.ngm.com/blog_central/2010/08/eat-the-beetles-with-special-bug-recipes.html

Also, entomophagy –the art of insect eating.http://www.food-insects.com/

Some Edible Species http://www.food-insects.com/edible%20species.htm

Is that a North American Mountain pine beetle in Display Case 4?

I’ve never wanted to see Chicken Nuggets (or Turkey Swizlers) ever again in my life.

Mind you, I think a visit to an abattoir can have a similar effect.

I’ve been in an “exchange” (only one warmist taker, the sceptics whimped out) at JoNova arguing that polynomial trends are more appropriate for fluctuating temperature data than linear regressions and presenting the case.

The Microsoft Chart guide being the most relevant in the following link but there’s up and down thread stuff too http://joannenova.com.au/2012/06/has-north-victoria-cooled-not-warmed-and-is-that-a-solar-cycle-signal-we-see/#comment-1073982

Grist perhaps for our ongoing stoush with Ken Perrott if he turns up again.

Oh yes, before I forget – boring beetles.