Unbelievable! NYTs: 'Green' Energy Increasing Fuel Prices, Hunger

Hard to believe, but the liberal NYTs is actually (FINALLY) saying the truth: the stupid, fruitless "green fad" is killing our country and the world FOR ZERO BENEFIT. It's WAY past time for the global warming myth to die.

But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.

[From Food Prices Stir Concern About Biofuels Mandates - NYTimes.com]

GASP!: Climate Change Alters Tea Taste?

Yes, you read that right. Someone has actually (scientifically, I'm sure) related "manmade global climate disruption" to the changed taste of tea. There are so many ways to pick this apart as a scientist that it's not funny. Someone throw the BS flag, please. Need more bullshit? Read the GASP! series and visit Dr. Brignell's warmlist page to grasp the depth of the stupidity associated with this pseudo-science religion that refuses die amid scandal upon scandal.

GAUHATI, India -- Tea growers in northeastern India say climate change has hurt the country's tea crop, leading not just to a drop in production but also subtly altering the flavor of their brew.

[From Indian tea tastes different due to climate change]

Gore: EtOH 'Not Good Policy'

Really Al? If you had asked us back about 3 years ago when you started in on this biofuels business, we could have told you what a moron you were being (kind of like the moron you're being on everything related to this science-warping, global-warming bullshit). How about going a step further? Why not admit that this entire thing is one giant, government-backed boondoggle (because it is). Climate fear is nothing but a means to seize greater power and resources for the government, which means that capitalism must take it on the chin for socialism to prevail.

Of course (like a lot of liberal policies), biofuels had a different effect than intended. It raised the price of food (making the poor more at risk in the world) and raised the price of fuel (making the economy worse...something a lot of liberals wanted anyway). And since global warming isn't real, it didn't do a damn thing to the climate.

ATHENS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was "not a good policy", weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.

U.S. blending tax breaks for ethanol make it profitable for refiners to use the fuel even when it is more expensive than gasoline. The credits are up for renewal on Dec. 31.

Total U.S. ethanol subsidies reached $7.7 billion last year according to the International Energy Industry, which said biofuels worldwide received more subsidies than any other form of renewable energy.

"It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for (U.S.) first generation ethanol," said Gore, speaking at a green energy business conference in Athens sponsored by Marfin Popular Bank.

[From U.S. corn ethanol was not a good policy-Gore | Energy & Oil | Reuters]

Cambridge, MA: Going Green To Be Mandatory

See what's happening? Government control of your lives will take hold where you will allow it. When government arrogantly assumes it knows better than you what's good for you, you should be very afraid. We've seen similar moronic solutions to the "climate emergency" before. These leftists act as if no climate scandals have recently unfolded.

Going green will not be optional in Cambridge, Mass., if the Cambridge Climate Congress has its way. It will be mandatory.

There will be congestion pricing to reduce car travel. Curbside parking will be eliminated. There will be a carbon tax "of some kind," not to mention taxes on plastic and paper bags. And the Massachusetts city, home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will advocate vegetarianism and veganism, complete with "Meatless or Vegan Mondays."

Those are just some of the proposals put forth by the Congress, which was created in May 2009 to respond to the "climate emergency" plaguing Cambridge. Once the Congress settles on its recommendations, they will submitted to the City Council.

[From FOXNews.com - Harvard Hometown Plans Coercive Taxes, Veganism to Stop Climate 'Emergency']

Now There's Africa-Gate

The latest report from the IPCC is apparently scandal-ridden. More fear-mongering in the report is shown for the bullshit it is.

The U.N.'s controversial climate report is coming under fire -- again -- this time by one of its own scientists, who admits he can't find any evidence to support a warning about a climate-caused North African food shortage.

The statement comes from a key 2007 report to the U.N., and asserts that by 2020 yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50% in some African countries thanks to climate change.

But this weekend, a key author of the team behind that report told The Sunday Times that he could find no evidence to support his own group's claim. The revelation follows the retraction by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of a claim that the Himalayan glaciers might all melt by 2035, dubbed 'Glaciergate' by commentators.

[From FOXNews.com - Africa-Gate? U.N. Fears of Food Shortages Questioned]

OJ Prices Go Up

Why? Because of record freezing cold weather in Florida. That's why.

Florida – Expect to start paying more for your morning orange juice. Coca-Cola is raising the price of orange juice products from Minute Maid and Simply Orange. The increase could be as much as 9%, after a cold snap destroyed fruit crops in Florida. The increase will apply to chilled orange juice products and will be the first increase since October 2006.

[From Orange Juice Prices to Go Up | WOAI.COM: San Antonio News ]

Eat Less Meat and Dairy, Sustainably

The commissars of global warming are at it again. They want to regulate sex, food, alcohol, milk, and EVERYTHING, all in the name of being SUSTAINABLE...the new global warming fad buzz word.

You see if you fart less, you'll help save the planet from those atrocious greenhouse gases in your butt. If you have less sex then you won't be breathing out as much CO2. Make sense yet? You're right...it doesn't.

Besides, Al Gore's fat meat-eating butt isn't about to give up his steaks. Remember...these a-holes are HYPOCRITES. Do as they say, not as they do.

And the dissing of the Climategate reality goes on and on.

The first official recommendations for a diet that is both healthy and good for the environment are published today, and they are likely to be seen as an assault on the UK's current food system.

To fight climate change and tackle the growing crisis of diet-related diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer, British consumers must cut down on meat and dairy produce, reduce their intake of processed foods and curb waste.

[From Eat less meat and dairy: official recipe to help health of consumers – and the planet | Environment | The Guardian ]

GASP!: Global Warming Threatens Italy's Pasta

Remember how a certain group of global warming advocates worried earlier this year that 'exaggerated claims' are hurting their efforts to deal with this as a real scientific problem? Well, here's another exaggerated example. If you need some more global warming associated fear (and doltishness), read our GASP! series or Dr. Brignell's warmlist. Get yourself a good chuckle...and ignore this stupid global warming myth.

Scientists will this week warn that Italy may be forced to import the basic ingredients for pasta, its national food, because climate change will make it impossible to grow durum wheat.

In a report to be released by the Met Office tomorrow, scientists predict that Italy’s durum yields will start to decline from 2020 and the crop will almost disappear from the country later this century.

[From Global Warming Threatens Italy's Pasta Supply - How Green? - FOXNews.com]

Give Up Meat and Save Earth

Yeah, we've heard this one before. Good luck getting Gore to give up his steaks, you liberal goons. Meanwhile, I can't wait to have a cheeseburger for dinner; I can't wait to convert some carbon in my organic carbon body. LOL!

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

[From Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet - Times Online ]

Carbon-filled Al Gore Bellows More

When will this carbon-spewing, hypocritical nitwit go away? He's managed to sully the Nobel Prize and the Oscars simply by being a committee-entrancing recipient. He really needs a new niche.

Has anyone noticed how large Al Gore has gotten lately? I mean really...he's HUGE; he has really packed on the fat since he lost the election 9 years ago (yes, I said lost...not robbed of). Do you know out of what fat is primarily composed? That's right...strings and strings of CARBON ATOMS chained together. As a matter of fact, fats and oils are almost 100% carbon, with a little hydrogen thrown in.

Al Gore is a walking, farting environmental carbon disaster, according to his own definition.

And then he consumes enough energy (at his home and in his travels) to power a small city, all while buying carbon credits from his own business to make himself feel better (and richer). He needs the money, though, to buy more steak dinners.

Gore calls on world business leaders to push for climate deal

NEW YORK -- Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore on Sunday urged a gathering of more than 500 business leaders to push for a global agreement on curbing global warming pollution, saying "Mother Nature does not do bailouts."

"The market signals on energy are badly misleading and wrong. We do not take into account the cost of pollution," Gore told the meeting of chief executives from global industry giants, including PepsiCo Inc.

"If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be a surprise to no one that today we will dump another 70 million tons of global warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet," Gore said.

Give Up Certain Foods and Alcohol to Fight Warming

I truly hope all this hogwash fails like the stupid BS it is! I will not stop eating food that I prefer; I will not stop drinking alcohol. I will not stop driving a gas-powered car. I will not stop eating tomatoes. I will keep using regular light bulbs as long as they're available. I’ll use the toilet paper that’s necessary. On each Earth Day or Earth Hour, I will turn on every light in my house and run my vehicles in the driveway too.

I can't wait to see this stupidity fail; it has already failed. The media just won't admit that their propaganda campaign is a disaster. Because their stupid little myth hasn’t taken root.

Burping of the lambs blows roast off menu

GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.

Out will go kebabs, greenhouse tomatoes and alcohol. Instead, diners will be encouraged to consume more potatoes and seasonal vegetables, as well as pork and chicken, which generate fewer carbon emissions.

“Changing our lifestyles, including our diets, is going to be one of the crucial elements in cutting carbon emissions,” said David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change.

U.N.'s "No Oil, No Food" Program

The U.N. has had no real comment on the huge bolus of funds some of its most powerful members (ahem, Kofi Annan's son) embezzled over the years in programs like the “Oil for Food” scandal. Don’t look for that money to be returned, which could do a lot for the poorest people of the world--people whose plight the U.N. claims to champion. Heck, global warming alarmism--fueled by the U.N.'s hyperbolic IPCC--is harming the world's poorest nations as we speak.

So, my question is: Why has the U.N. just now done this after griping about climate change and global warming for years? Could this be more hypocrisy?

Dear Simpletons at the U.N. (especially Ban Ki-moon), You cannot “mitigate climate change.” Even if the climate was changing in a truly measurable way (and it is not), there would be nothing you could do to change it, because CO2 IS NOT CAUSING THE WORLD TO HEAT UP. Geez!

This little stunt is pure, environmentally-tinged political grandstanding--nothing more or less.

U.N. thermostat to be set higher:

UNITED NATIONS | Everyone complains about climate change, and the United Nations is finally doing something about it - on Friday, the temperature inside U.N. headquarters in New York will rise by 5 degrees.

Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations' self-professed environmental secretary-general, ordered the "In-House Climate Change Initiative" to save energy, cut carbon emissions and try to mitigate climate change.

Officials said the month-long experiment - dubbed "Cool U.N." - also will allow engineers to test energy consumption and utility costs in the notoriously antiquated building.

GASP! Prepare to eat bugs!

Okay, in addition to becoming cannibals, we'll be forced to eat bugs soon too! Sorry...global warming causes too many problems to keep eating like fat, gluttonous Americans. LOL!

Other posts in the GASP! series here.

Eating Bugs - TIME:

There's also the possibility that someday the exploding global population and the damage of climate change could bring about the collapse of our resource-intensive food supply. "At that point," notes Gracer, "insects could become a pretty attractive option."

Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want!

Just so that you're aware (even though you might be infatuated with goo-goo eyes and Beatle-esque fainting spells), Obama is as full of crap about global warming as McCain, Bush, and Clinton. They're all idiots on this subject of so-called "unassailable science."

The socialists are coming for your affluence, America. Are you going to let them just take it from you, or are you going to resist them?

AFP: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon:

Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

Obesity now blamed for global warming too

LOL! See, I told you. We fat, greedy, affluent, lazy Americans are all to blame, from our gas-guzzling SUVs to our gluttony-induced pizza binges. We Americans are the epitome of evil; we are gassy, bloated CO2 bags, transforming the Earth into a living greenhouse hell by belching and pooting it into oblivion.

One small problem...global warming is a lie.

Obesity contributes to global warming: study | Health | Reuters:

GENEVA (Reuters) - Obesity contributes to global warming, too.

Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says.

This adds to food shortages and higher energy prices, the school's researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote in the journal Lancet on Friday.

"We are all becoming heavier and it is a global responsibility," Edwards said in a telephone interview. "Obesity is a key part of the big picture."

Gore backed biofuels solution that starves people

Told you...our climate change solutions will do far more harm (see here for the stupid mercury-tainted light bulbs) than the supposed manmade climate change, which isn't even occurring by the way.

Go ahead world citizens...let Al Gore lead you over a cliff; I'm not going with him.

Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries | The New York Sun:

In an interview last year, Mr. Gore expressed his support for corn-based ethanol, but endorsed moving to what he called a “third generation” of so-called cellulosic ethanol production, which is still in laboratory research. “It doesn’t compete with food crops, so it doesn’t put pressure on food prices,” the former vice president told Popular Mechanics magazine.

Biofuels = expensive food for poor

What'd I tell you? Our biofuel solutions are worthless, as are our other solutions. These goons will only create more problems to solve a nonexistent problem!

Biofuels under attack as world food prices soar:

PARIS (AFP) - Hailed until only months ago as a silver bullet in the fight against global warming, biofuels are now accused of snatching food out of the mouths of the poor.

Slightly growing drought?

The implications in this article are that climate change is at work again (please read my previous posts on droughts). We can see that there is precedent for drought in this area, and that the drought is loosening. Wouldn't it persist if caused by manmade climate change?

Drought grows slightly in E. Australian farmlands | Environment | Reuters:

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A key part of Australia's eastern farmlands slipped further into drought in March but record crops were still expected if good rains fell soon, New South Wales Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said on Sunday.

New South Wales, one of Australia's biggest agricultural states, was hit hardest by the country's worst drought in 100 years before rain began falling early this year.

The rain reduced the area of the state in drought to around 40 percent from 99 percent during the worst of the drought in 2002.

Governments work to save us sheep from doom

And yet, CO2 emissions continue to rise while the mean global temperature has fallen!

Britain's 2007 emissions fall, on track for Kyoto | Environment | Reuters:

LONDON (Reuters) - British greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly two percent in 2007, keeping the country on track to meet its targets under the Kyoto Protocol, the government's environmental agency said on Thursday.

U.N. human rights body turns to climate change | Environment | Reuters:

GENEVA (Reuters) - Climate change could erode the human rights of people living in small island states, coastal areas and parts of the world subjected to drought and floods, the U.N. Human Rights Council said on Friday.

Climate negotiators start work on Kyoto II | Environment | Reuters:

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Scientists and officials from across the world meet in Thailand this week for the first formal talks in the long process of drawing up a replacement for the Kyoto climate change pact by the end of 2009.

Around 190 nations agreed in Bali last year to start the two-year negotiations to replace Kyoto, which only binds 37 rich nations to cut emissions of greenhouse gases by an average of five percent from 1990 levels by 2012.

Here's a reason why our "actions" to save us will fail; we will have to disavow capitalism to make all the psychos happy. It's the only way.

California cuts future quotas for clean-air cars | Environment | Reuters:

Advocates of clean car technologies called the move a step backward for California's push to cut car pollution, and accused the board of kowtowing to automakers.

Government officials to discuss CO2 content of alt fuels | Environment | Reuters:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Officials from across the U.S. government will meet this week to interpret an obscure item tucked into 2007 energy legislation that bars big federal fuel buyers from using fuel derived from coal if it contains more carbon than products made from crude oil.

Wait, I thought dark colors absorbed light, which theoretically would warm up the earth more? Chlorophyll has a dark green color, so losing trees should theoretically cool the earth. Oh that's right...alarmists claim the sun has nothing to do with global warming. They're obviously taking the position that losing the trees raises CO2 levels...except that CO2 has NOTHING TO DO WITH WARMING! It comes AFTER WARMING...NOT BEFORE.
Asia must reverse deforestation: U.N. | Environment | Reuters:

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Parts of Asia are losing more than 28,000 square kilometers (10,800 square miles) of forest every year, a trend that must to be reversed immediately to fight climate change, a United Nations report said on Thursday.

As I already mentioned, even if we BELIEVE (as in have ‘blind faith’ in the ‘consensus’ as we’ve been instructed to do by the media), there’s no workable solution to reverse the nonexistent warming that they’ve imagined. Kyoto won’t work—far too expensive for the estimated net CO2 reductions. Mercury-tainted light bulbs won’t work; they poison the planet worse than the perceived “pollution” of greenhouse gases (please note that we would all be frozen popsicles without greenhouse gases in our atmosphere to hold in the sun’s heat). Some climate alarmists even believe that we’ll all be dead in a few decades, regardless of what we do to fix the problem.

Regardless of whether biofuels increase or reduce greenhouse gases, here’s one certain thing that we can already see—they’re driving up the price of corn, which is a staple food for the poorest people in the world. We also use corn to feed livestock, which is another food staple—providing beef, cheese, and milk. Food is already under several price pressures; surely we shouldn’t help prices creep up further, due to our religious-like zealotry with this climate change baloney.

So you fruitcakes are just hurting the people that you always claim to champion. This time, you’re hurting them under the guise of saving the planet; the only problem is that the planet doesn’t need your help, you arrogant bunch of know-it-all kool-aid drinkers!

Top scientists warn against rush to biofuel | Environment | The Guardian:

Gordon Brown is preparing for a battle with the European Union over biofuels after one of the government's leading scientists warned they could exacerbate climate change rather than combat it.

In an outspoken attack on a policy which comes into force next week, Professor Bob Watson, the chief scientific adviser at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said it would be wrong to introduce compulsory quotas for the use of biofuels in petrol and diesel before their effects had been properly assessed.

Eat whale and save us all!

Remember, all things capitalistic are killing the earth, including our love of meat! You'll have to give that up too, or be cursed for all eternity, sinner!

Eat whale and save the planet | Reuters:

OSLO (Reuters) - Eat a whale and save the planet, a Norwegian pro-whaling lobby said on Monday of a study showing that harpooning the giant mammals is less damaging to the climate than farming livestock.

Environmental group Greenpeace dismissed the survey, saying almost every kind of food was more climate friendly than meat.

The survey, focused on whale boats' fuel use, showed that a kilo (2.2 lbs) of whale meat represented just 1.9 kilo (4.2 lbs) of greenhouse gases against 15.8 for beef, 6.4 for pork and 4.6 for chicken.

"Basically it turns out that the best thing you can do for the planet is to eat whale meat compared to other types of meat," said Rune Froevik of the High North Alliance, which represents the interests of coastal communities in the Arctic.

"Greenhouse gas emissions caused by one meal of beef are the equivalent of eight meals of whale meat," the study said.