Around 1000 AD, Vikings were farming Greenland

" Ted Roth did an excellent job of exposing the ethanol scam. Drilling in ANWR, off the costs, and in our interior makes far better sense than paying an exorbitant price for foreign oil.
As Roth also mentioned, and perhaps of greater concern, is the Third World food shortage, which is getting worse. The price of corn is soaring. It is beyond the reach of many, since 80 percent of their costs are for food, and with very little money, even a small price rise is a disaster. But with its subsidies, ethanol can pay more for corn than people can.
A recent article in "Time"; magazine noted that Amazon forests are being cut down so the land can grow corn. Obviously, this destroys the forests the greenies love so well. Burning those trees puts huge amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. And, the trees are no longer there to absorb future atmospheric carbon dioxide. The whole purpose for the ethanol movement is negated by this action. A huge price, and a negative result. The right people are getting the money. The rest of us lose.
The more basic scam is global warming. Around 1000 AD, Vikings were farming Greenland, and there were vineyards in England. In the 13th and 14th centuries, there were climatic extremes. The little ice age occurred. From then to the 19th century, temperatures dropped. Glaciers advanced. Winters were severe. England's vineyards vanished. The Viking community in Greenland perished. At that time, there was a cooling cycle. We have now swung back to a warming cycle.
Over the years, temperatures vary due to natural phenomena. Sun spots are cyclical. They, volcanic activity and other actions of nature contribute far more to climate change than do the puny efforts of men.
Sixty years ago, the scam was the fear of another ice age. Now the fear is global warming. When this issue dies, and the natural cooling cycle resumes, the fear of another ice age will again be profitable. Designer igloos, anyone? "

– C.G. Johnson,
Sedgwick

http://www.thekansan.com/opinions/x914620423

http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/230922.asp

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=7175 comments at bottom of the page RE: GM and man made weapons affecting plants necessitating the requirement for GM

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"From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the Amazon. Brazil just announced that deforestation is on track to double this year; Carter, a Texas cowboy with all the subtlety of a chainsaw, says it's going to get worse fast. "It gives me goose bumps," says Carter, who founded a nonprofit to promote sustainable ranching on the Amazon frontier. "It's like witnessing a rape." "
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1725975-1,00.html



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Motorists fury as 'profiteering' Shell and BP post record profits of more than £3million an hour... as petrol prices near £1.50 a litre

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=5...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/pound7bn-profit-for-oil-giant...



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"We consider that the recent dramatic escalation in food prices worldwide has evolved into an unprecedented challenge of global proportions that has become a crisis for the world's most vulnerable, including the urban poor," a UN statement issued at the end of the Berne meeting said. It called for donor nations to help the World Food Programme raise an additional $755m (£380m) to meet its existing food aid targets in the face of higher costs, and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) called for $1.7bn to pay for seeds and inputs to help farmers in poor countries respond to the high prices by growing more.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/30/food.development

Unfortunately this is paving the way forward for GM.

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