Global Warming Rage Fuels Global Starvation
| April 15, 2008 | Posted by Dave S. under Culture, Global Warming, Off Topic |
I hate being right about this but I warned y’all it was going to happen. God help the billions already hungry if the globe starts cooling. It probably will begin cooling soon as it always does on cycles of two to four decades. Pray to whatever gods you believe in that it’s a small cooling.
Global warming rage lets global hunger grow
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor
We drive, they starve. The mass diversion of the North American grain harvest into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.
“The reality is that people are dying already,” said Jacques Diouf, of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). “Naturally people won’t be sitting dying of starvation, they will react,” he said.
The UN says it takes 232kg of corn to fill a 50-litre car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted “massacres” unless the biofuel policy is halted.
We are all part of this drama whether we fill up with petrol or ethanol. The substitution effect across global markets makes the two morally identical.
Mr Diouf says world grain stocks have fallen to a quarter-century low of 5m tonnes, rations for eight to 12 weeks. America – the world’s food superpower – will divert 18pc of its grain output for ethanol this year, chiefly to break dependency on oil imports. It has a 45pc biofuel target for corn by 2015.
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Wakefield at 28
Unless your are trying to be satirical, you have been reading too many global warming bandwagon newspaper accounts. The actual data is the opposite. See Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States Archibald, Global Sea Ice Area 1979-present figure on page 2. David Archibald 2008 paper Solar Cycle 24: Implications for the United States International Conference on Climate Change, March 2008. He observes global ice area increasing 5%.