So What's Al Gore Gonna Do Now?
As the U.K.'s Telegraph notes, the world seems to be growing colder now, not warmer.
There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but
even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter,
but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There
have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had
prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal
rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.
Maybe we should note the science of 200 years ago:
It is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William
Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When
the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and
drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose. In the past two years,
sunspot activity has dropped to its lowest point for a century. One of
our biggest worries is that our politicians are so fixated on the idea
that CO2 is causing global warming that most of them haven't noticed
that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, with
all the implications that has for whether we get enough to eat.
But nooooo.....we've decided to go the other direction.
It is appropriate that another contributory factor to the world's food
shortage should be the millions of acres of farmland now being switched
from food crops to biofuels, to stop the world warming, Last year even
the experts of the European Commission admitted that, to meet the EU's
biofuel targets, we will eventually need almost all the food-growing
land in Europe. But that didn't persuade them to change their policy.
They would rather we starved than did that.
When will we learn?
-Colonel Steve
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