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1 posted on 02/08/2010 10:49:41 AM PST by tobyhill
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To: steelyourfaith

Ping.


2 posted on 02/08/2010 10:51:20 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: cogitator

IPCC’s warnings of North African food shortages due to man-made CO2 is found to be a lie.


3 posted on 02/08/2010 10:51:40 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: tobyhill

There is absolutely NOTHING these lying Algorian criminals have stated that is true.


4 posted on 02/08/2010 10:53:16 AM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: tobyhill

Let them drink Ethanol !


5 posted on 02/08/2010 11:00:13 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: tobyhill
Any shortages are due to personal and governmental irresponsibility, not to “climate change” or whatever it's called.

An acquaintance once told me he volunteered somewhere in Africa teaching villagers how to do a better job at farming, but the villagers just didn't want to apply the new techniques. The attitude was, this is the way they always farmed and they were not going to break with tradition. Well, fine. Then if you are starving, it's your own fault and your problem, not mine or anyone else’s.

6 posted on 02/08/2010 11:04:05 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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In West Africa the biggest new cause of deforestation in many regions is to grow biofuel. The land rush to establish biofuel plantations in developing nations is one of the most intense the world has ever seen.

Once deforestation in coastal regions causes regional drought, the abusive patterns of land use in the interior, where swollen populations continue to forage for firewood even though they consume it far faster than it grows, leave the parched land even more vulnerable to desertification.

There is a clear link between deforestation and drought, particularly in West Africa, as cited in a recent MIT study, where they demonstrate that deforestation along the southern coast of West Africa (e.g., in Nigeria, Ghana and Ivory Coast) may result in complete collapse of monsoon circulation, and a significant reduction of regional rainfall.

It is interesting that environmentalists expend considerable energy trying to provide indigenous peoples alternatives to firewood, yet condone industrial-scale deforestation to grow crops to refine and burn in the engines of cars.

8 posted on 02/08/2010 11:41:29 AM PST by anglian
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