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$60 Mil To Study Climate Change Effects On Crops, Forests
Judicial Watch ^ | March 21, 2011

Posted on 03/21/2011 2:33:38 PM PDT by jazusamo

With a national debt that tops $14 trillion and a colossal budget deficit, the U.S. government is dishing out $60 million to study the effects of climate change on crops and forests.

The multi million-dollar studies will focus on the impact that global warming will have in three key areas that government officials claim could lead to food shortages; southern pine forests, wheat in the northwest and Midwestern corn. Because climatologists predict global warming will transform cool, wet areas into dry and hot ones there needs to be a variety of crops that can adapt to the changes, according to the federal official who’s handing out the cash for the projects.

Otherwise, he assures that there will be shortages in certain kinds of foods. To avoid that potential crisis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is giving three public universities—in Florida, Iowa and Idaho—$20 million each to help ensure that farmers and foresters can keep producing food and timber by minimizing the toll of a changing environment. The USDA is calling it a “major scientific investment in studying the effects of climate change on agriculture and forest production.”

A professor of tree physiology at the University of Florida will head the forestry study, which will focus on southern pine and establish a network to monitor the effects of climate on “forest carbon sequestration.” A sociologist at Iowa State University will lead the corn project which will evaluate the impacts of various crop management practices under different “climate models” and an entomologist at the University of Idaho will monitor how wheat grows amid changes in soil carbon and nitrogen levels.

Just last month a group of esteemed scientists from several public universities warned that climate change will make food “dangerous” and consequently lead to the malnourishment of millions worldwide. That’s because global warming will provoke increased levels of food contamination from chemicals and “fungal pathogens” as well as diseases like cholera and shellfish poisoning. Some foods will become scarce, prices will increase and civil unrest will ensue, according to the scientists who presented their case at a WashingtonD.C. gathering.

Previous government evaluations on the ills of global warming have determined that it will cause mental illness and cancer as well as national security threats by spreading disease among people and animals. Check out the government’smental/illness cancer report and read about the national security threats.



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KEYWORDS: foodstudy; globalwarming
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Sheesh! Global warming is causing mental illness, cancer and now food poisoning. We're doomed.
1 posted on 03/21/2011 2:33:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: steelyourfaith

Ping!


2 posted on 03/21/2011 2:34:48 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
We've seen that already: Algore, East Anglia and Penn State, among others.
3 posted on 03/21/2011 2:40:43 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|http://pure-gas.org|Must be a day for changing taglines)
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To: jazusamo

For $60 million, I’ll prove unicorns are eating our crops and trampling our forests. And the proof will pass peer review.


4 posted on 03/21/2011 2:40:55 PM PDT by Dr. Sheldon Cooper (If Mohammed were alive today, he wouldnÂ’t be allowed to live within 1000 yards of a school.)
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To: jazusamo
We have seven huge USDA Research facilities located thruout the country. Each is based on it's regional attributes. They have been doing great research since the late 1940's. Their work on crop adaptation and selective breeding is famous. Their research on uses of plant products for oils, fiber, and such are also famous.

How redundant do we have to be?

I guess the SEIU and AFSCME have gone into the garden center business. By the time they are finished, corn will be $70 per seed kernel. Every accomplished PHD researcher who works for the USDA research centers will be retired with a watch. Then the famine begins............

5 posted on 03/21/2011 2:43:33 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: blackdog

Agreed, spending this money like this is like flushing it down a toilet.


6 posted on 03/21/2011 2:46:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

And folks wonder why I get livid when people say, “raise taxes on the rich.”

Bill Gates shouldn’t have to pay more taxes until this kind of crap is cut out.

Meanwhile they are looking a raising healthcare costs on veterans.

Makes me so mad I could spit!


7 posted on 03/21/2011 2:46:35 PM PDT by TSgt (Colonel Allen West & Michele Bachman - 2012 POTUS Dream Team Ticket!)
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To: jazusamo
GWCRAP
8 posted on 03/21/2011 2:49:39 PM PDT by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: jazusamo

The Climate Change Industry is very lucrative.


9 posted on 03/21/2011 2:50:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Impeach Obama & try him for treason / Homosexuals reject diversity / Unions finally caught for theft)
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To: jazusamo; FreedomPoster; Para-Ord.45; Entrepreneur; tubebender; mmanager; Fiddlstix; ...
Thanx for the ping jazusamo !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

10 posted on 03/21/2011 2:54:59 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." -- Wendell Phillips)
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To: jazusamo
the U.S. government is dishing out $60 million to study the effects of climate change on crops and forests.
Shouldn't they first determine that, if there actually is "climate change", that it is man made and that increasing taxes, charging more for now food AND energy or reducing supply will actually fix it?

The truth is, the $60 million is just a democrat money transfer. They know perfectly well there is no man made "climate change".

11 posted on 03/21/2011 2:56:56 PM PDT by lewislynn ( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
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To: steelyourfaith

What exactly does southern pine taste like?


12 posted on 03/21/2011 2:57:53 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Have you terrorized a terrorist today?)
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To: jazusamo
I can save them money. Give me $30 billion and I will tell them that IF the planet does warm up it will mean MORE food being grown at latitudes not available to be used for farming now. Warming the planet would have no downsides, unless the planet warmed up to the average temp of Death Valley. We would have more rain and more area to grow crops.

Ok, now where is my $30 billion. I would even be willing to donate a Billion to FR.

13 posted on 03/21/2011 2:59:45 PM PDT by calex59
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To: jazusamo

Which FREINDS of the Progressives are getting the taxpayers’ money now? This WHOLE thing is a scam, aimed at fleecing taxpayers (and then Consumers, too) via the phony alarmist State Run Media propoganda-fueled hoax.


14 posted on 03/21/2011 3:01:53 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: calex59

It’s milliom but I’d bet FR would be happy with that and you’d get a ton of thanks. ;-)


15 posted on 03/21/2011 3:09:32 PM PDT by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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To: calex59

Oops, $30 billion should be $30 million. See, I work cheap.


16 posted on 03/21/2011 3:13:28 PM PDT by calex59
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To: jazusamo

Here’s another one for the chainsaw, Blubber Bear!


17 posted on 03/21/2011 3:18:05 PM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: jazusamo

I’m considering applying for a grant to study erosion in the Grand Canyon and its effects on the Western prairie dog population.


18 posted on 03/21/2011 3:22:41 PM PDT by Floyd Rivers
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To: jazusamo

Agreed, spending this money like this is like flushing it down a toilet.

A low flush toilet............


19 posted on 03/21/2011 3:31:38 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: jazusamo

And yet we are burning food for fuel. Driving up corn prices, that raises food prices. That is what started the Middle East up rising that caused our gas prices to spike.

We are the stupidest nation on Earth that has ever existed.


20 posted on 03/21/2011 3:39:03 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ("Endeavor to persevere.")
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