Below is a quote from an ABC News article posted on Labor Day 2012.
"By mid-August, headlines around the country were announcing that massive drought — firmly linked by virtually all the world’s climate scientists to manmade global warming — would be sending food prices up in America and other countries."
That has to be true because it came from ABC which is owned by Disney and Disney would never lie. Right? Has the writer of this misleading information ever considered that 40% of the corn crop in the US is used for ethanol production? How much of the grain, potatoes and other crops are now similarly used? What happens when demand for these food stuffs increases? Prices rise. Not just on veggies either. How much corn is fed to cattle? The inflated demand for corn also makes the price of beef and milk rise. If this corn were redirected into the food supply food prices would plummet. Another unintended consequence of the limited thinking AGW folks.
Maybe there is a grain of truth in their statement, however. Their belief in AGW caused the whole ethanol bust so I guess that did cause food prices to rise. Now most of them realize and freely admit that ethanol is a net producer of CO2. The very thing they tried to do to reduce CO2 actually has increased it.
My 2 cents. Tal Leverett.
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