Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/27/2008 5:32:40 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Here’s an inconvenient truth:
Long before man-caused global warming kills people and topples governments, the man-caused scare over global warming is going to have the same effect.
Unlike the myth of man-made global warming, the scare is real, and it is here today.
The secretary-general of the United Nations told reporters in Austria on Friday that the sudden and steep rise in food prices worldwide has developed into a global crisis.
With shortages of affordable food spreading around the world, food-related unrest has broken out in nations as diverse as Egypt, Haiti, Indonesia and Afghanistan.
One of the base causes of the shortages is the effect of global-warming concerns in the United States, where it is estimated that 30 percent of the nation’s corn crop now is devoted to the production of ethanol, rather than going into the food chain. As the “food basket” of the world, what happens in crop production in the U.S. affects the world food supply.
A noted professor of applied economics and law at the University of Minnesota, C. Ford Runge, has concluded that ethanol production in the United States - a product of the global-warming scare - has had a “clearly substantial” effect on the world food crisis.
Meanwhile, former vice president and Oscar winner Al Gore, father of the global-warming scare, has been uncharacteristically silent - as have been his liberal cheerleaders in the media.
(Excerpt) Read more at chieftain.com ...
Horse hocky, prices go up, more people see profit in growing, price go down. Maybe the Feds should just quit paying farms to NOT grow stuff.
The Goracle has been more muted of late.
Soon he is going to be the most despised man on the planet.
The sunspot thingy has him running for the hills. I really despise that asswipe.
http://www.climatecooling.org/
Doesn’t warmer temps mean that the growing season is longer?
Also, more people die from cold than heat.
Glass is half empty!
http://www.lomborg.com/cool_it/?PHPSESSID=21d6774463f867b109bbb457c2709907
I've been saying it over and over. Man made global warming is a man made myth. But is no myth that we are going to get screwed to the wall because of it.
And we off set only 1% of our consumption of oil! Wake up leaders and turn this around.
If anyone is interested in the TRUTH about this issue, please read this study. It was released by Texas A&M University two weeks ago. You will learn what is truly driving up the costs of food; it is the price of oil.
http://www.afpc.tamu.edu/pubs/2/515/RR-08-01.pdf
no mention is made of oil producing nations record profits. The high cost of fuel is driving the ethanol production. Should the Saudis and other OPEC nations be held responsible?
People were starving long before ethanol.
The countries who have the most starvation are either involved in tribal battles or jihad, or have anarchists running rampant burning farms and murdering farmers. People are hungry because of barbarism, not climate change.
The rich farmers need to volunteer their services to feed the world, according to the UN. Profits are evil capitalistic tendencys that are not acceptable in the turd world.
Screw the UN.
Can it be that Al Gore will end up killing more people than George Bush?
No, the rich farmers need to stop raping the American tax payer, just so Ethanol won't die a slow death in the energy market if it had to compete on it's own.
Can it be that Al Gore will end up killing more people than George Bush?
Whatever, get the Ethanol lobby out of the taxpayer pockets first before they blame big oil. I swear it’s like hearing Democrats talk: Blame big oil and rape the tax while you’re at it.
The UN is worthless. The UN makes the League of Nations look like cub scouts.
Gore/Carter Carter/Gore. At this time Carter gets most despised moniker from me. Gore is close second.
Directly or indirectly Gore may kill more people than your pick of the worst dictators of this century
Any questions?
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