THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume X, Issue # 139, June 9, 2008
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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THERMOMETERS ARE DOING THE TALKING
By Dennis T. Avery
CONSEQUENCE OF THE PROPAGANDA, POLICY AGENDA, & POLITICAL INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS &
GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISTS: A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF GLOBAL FOOD SHORTAGE & ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
FULL STORY:
What a world!! Global warming alarmists bring us to the brink of world food shortage and economic collapse — using
words and computer models, not higher temperatures. As a result, more wildlife species are threatened by palm oil
plantations growing biodiesel than by climate change. Heavy sea ice just trapped a big Russian ice-breaker for seven
days in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage, which the alarmists told us last year would soon be open sailing. The sunspots
and a Pacific Ocean cooling phase are forecasting the earth will cool further over the next two decades. In the past, both
have been accurate in their in their predictions.
The blue collar world sees no warming, but they surely see economic ruin staring them in the face. Finally, the workers
of the world are crying, “Enough of this man-made warming hype without warming!”
Fishing fleets have gone on strike across Europe against
ultra-high diesel prices, while the Greens demand that fuel
become even more scarce and expensive.
Truckers are staging fuel-protest slowdowns in major
European cities.
Protesting French farmers have blockaded fuel stations.
More than 70 percent of Britons now say they will not pay
any extra taxes to “save the planet.”
Meanwhile, the Vatican, widely flung governments, and dozens of universities have scheduled conferences on the global
food shortage.
Guess whose advice we took on shifting much of our cropland from food to biofuels? The advice of the same Greens who
told us not to burn coal or oil. We shifted too much of our scarce cropland into corn ethanol and palm oil biodiesel. We
forgot that the world’s food and feed demand was in the process of doubling, due to (1) the last surge in human
population growth; (2) rising Third World incomes and expectations; and (3) millions more beloved cats and dogs, as
households have fewer children and more affluence
Assuming society is not yet ready to starve the poor or euthanize their pets, we must feed them. That means at least twice
as much global food and feed per year by 2040. Nor do we want to clear the forests or drain the wetlands to grow more
crops. That means there is no “spare” cropland for corn ethanol
Unless the planet starts warming again, quickly and significantly, the Green momentum for a low-carbon society will come
to a screeching stop. There are many indications that we are in a long, moderate warming cycle, which began 150 years
ago with the end of the Little Ice Age, and may continue for several more hundred years. There is no indication that this
modest warming will be bad for humans, or for the wildlife. The thermometers show a net global temperature increase of
just 0.2 degree Celsius since 1940 — and even that tiny increase has been inflated by the urban heat island effect.
The big temperature increases are all in those unverified computer models so beloved by the Green movement. The
mothers of the world’s kids and the workers who grow and catch its food now demand to see the thermometers climb more
than .2 degrees before they renounce their food and jobs. Without energy, the workers can’t work, the farmers can’t farm,
and the children can’t eat.
Until and unless the Greens and the United Nations can offer some evidence beyond the guesses of computer models that
consistently over-estimate the warming that is occurring, we’ll accept the unsung voice of the thermometers
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Political Environmentalism Versus Human Progress & Prosperity:
Policy Issues Relating to Energy, Environment,
& Natural Resources
Political Economy -- Philosophies, Systems, & Public Policies:
Government, the Economy, & Economic Prosperity
Agriculture, the Economy, & Human Welfare:
Policy Issues Relating to Food Production
The Earth's Natural History, Global Climate Changes,
& the Future of Human Life & Civilization on the Planet:
Science, Ideology, & Public Policy
Dennis T. Avery is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., and is the Director of the Institute's Center for
Global Food Issues (www.cgfi.org). Formerly he was a senior policy analyst for the United
States Department of State, where he won the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement. He is the co-author, with
atmospheric physicist Fred Singer, of the book, Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years (Blue Ridge Summit,
Pennsylvania: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006). Avery's book, Saving the Planet With Pesticides and Plastic: The Environmental
Triumph of High-Yield Farming (Washington, D.C.: Hudson Institute, 1995), continues to be popular as a readable overview
of realistic agriculture for the future and for today. Readers may write Avery at Post Office Box 202, Churchville, Virginia, 24421.
Email: cgfi@rica.net
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