Posted on 02/07/2011 8:53:16 AM PST by mandaladon
For the second time in eight days, a prominent liberal has blamed the developing crisis in Egypt on global warming.
Following in the footsteps of climate alarmist extraordinaire Joe Romm Monday was New York Times columnist Paul Krugman:
We’re in the midst of a global food crisis — the second in three years. World food prices hit a record in January, driven by huge increases in the prices of wheat, corn, sugar and oils. These soaring prices have had only a modest effect on U.S. inflation, which is still low by historical standards, but they’re having a brutal impact on the world’s poor, who spend much if not most of their income on basic foodstuffs.
The consequences of this food crisis go far beyond economics. After all, the big question about uprisings against corrupt and oppressive regimes in the Middle East isn’t so much why they’re happening as why they’re happening now. [...]
While several factors have contributed to soaring food prices, what really stands out is the extent to which severe weather events have disrupted agricultural production. And these severe weather events are exactly the kind of thing we’d expect to see as rising concentrations of greenhouse gases change our climate — which means that the current food price surge may be just the beginning.
Have food prices really soared?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Ha! - It is Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Halliburton that are the cause. Oh and guns too — especially guns with big clips. Those are scary!
It is not ignorance it is lying and propaganda for thje liars on ALL TV and ALL of the news media.
This is caused by Bernake printing worthless dollars. I laugh when people attack Ron and Rnad Paul and they think The Federal Reserve is mom and apple pie.
The US is going to have hyperinflation in late 2011 and 2012.
“CO2 is plant food.
The food shortage is basically being blamed on the over-abundance of plant food.”
That was classic!
Let see are not greenhouse what help plants grow?.... Is not CO2 what plant breath?....and per you global WAR-mist is not all this snow is because global warming in putting more water in the atmosphere?.....
No mention of biofuels?
Never try to reason with a Libnatic Whacko. They have no ability t process logic.
Precisely! The government is trying to fight unemployment and promote growth by debasing the currency, pursuing an inflationary monetary policy and deficit spending, just like in the 70's. All that is doing is inflating commodity prices and creating enormous deficits. It didn't work then and it isn't working now.
The globe is warming? I thought it was still winter?
I have a question for Farmer Paul:
What is the purpose of greenhouses? You know, the ones people build in their fields and gardens?
Do you know?
Hell it just snowed in San Antonio on Friday. The globe was warming really hard that day. Heck, I’m wearing a winter jacket right now in the home of the Alamo!
Hell it just snowed in San Antonio on Friday. The globe was warming really hard that day. Heck, I’m wearing a winter jacket right now in the home of the Alamo!
Climate Change = The 4 Seasons.
The manufacture of ethanol, a massive diversion of foodstuffs to an inefficient — many would say dysfunctional — production of a poor gasoline substitute has certainly had the effect of making food scarcer. Anything that becomes scarce also becomes more expensive.
Higher taxes, a consequence of the expansion of government and government programs, also raise prices on everything ... including food.
Actual warming of the atmosphere would logically increase the productivity of farming just as a colder climate would decrease agricultural output.
I feel the same about Bill Maher.
He is a freaking idiot. But that schtick is making him money.
make Islamo-fascists seem open-minded by comparison.
Blame G W Bush, his dream of Islam Lands becoming democratic, well, atemting to anyway, and looking at Europe, looks like Herr Hitlers dream of a united Europe under Germany, if not under its iron heels, under madam Merkels economic strings-——as the world churns, sute glad I live on this side of the Atlantic
If only they'd do the noble thing to save the planet!
Obama is Mugabe 2. People on FR need to wake up to what is going on.
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