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Posted on 07/20/2009 6:01:52 PM PDT by neverdem
Those pesky Whistleblower Laws can come back and bite you in the ass, can’t they?
Agreed. Very well put.
some of the coldest weather ever in the upper Midwest too. I live in Kansas and the last two weeks of July and first two weeks of August is the hottest month of the summer, usually hot and muggy. This year lots of rain cool nights mid 80’s low 90’s during the day. This is the coolest summer I can remember in 30 years now in 1978 we had over 45 days of over 100 degree weather it was the hottest summer on record.
When Hillary approached India about participating in the Global Warming Hoax, in so many words they told her to go and fly a kite. It is always encouraging to see that not every one is as dumb as the US.
This is my take Saint Germaine
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Any crop failures reported yet?
I saw Hillary lecturing the Indians on carbon foot prints and greenhouse gasses and climate change.
She made fool of herself because it was suite obvious she had no clue about what she was speaking. Like her boss, she was merely reading talking points.
Don't put it past them. Remember, AGW is the bludgeon the left is using to advance its entire agenda. Those yahoos who want population control would love to disguise their goal through the imposition of a punishing carbon tax on every baby that is brought into the world (based on the kiddo's projected carbon footprint over an average lifetime). Can't afford the tax? Abort, then "volunteer" for sterilization.
Nope the first round of wheat crops were above average and the second round is looking good.
During the Little Ice Age (from 1315 to 1750), growers were very slow to adjust their crops to the new norms in Europe and England of wetter and cooler summers.
The spring fields were too muddy to plant so planting was delayed, the low lying clouds blocked solar energy and decreased the amount of protein that was stored in the cereal heads, and the unusual late summer rains beat down the heavy heads of the grain into the wet ground where they rotted.
After a fair amount of famine they learned to plant oats rather than wheat in some places, to plant more potatoes, and to plant a late crop of turnips to use for winter fodder for their animals.
They learned to drain fields and turn it into pasture.
They also learned to shift to more animal food, enclosing land for larger pastures for animals to graze.
If this solar minimum is prolonged into several decades, then the sooner some farmers shift their crops, the better.
One scientist said that the best measure of the weather over the last millenium was the price of wheat.
Your reply was interesting - but my favorite part was comment above. Thanks for sharing.
By Mike Caggeso
Staff Writer, Money Morning
“The doubling of wheat’s price in the past year – combined with recent forecasts for price declines – have turned wheat’s wholesome image into a volatile one. And depending on where you live, you’ll hear a different story.
“In Australia, the world’s second-largest wheat exporter, droughts have cramped the yearly harvest so much that its Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics said the country would produce 31% less wheat (15.5 million tons) than it estimated back in June.
“Some of the estimates I’ve seen suggest if it doesn’t rain by harvest time the crop could be as low as 12 million tons,” Justin Smirk, a senior economist at Westpac Banking Corp., told Bloomberg News. “We have got a serious problem unfolding in the wheat regions in New South Wales.”
“Drought also took a chunk from the harvests of Canada (the world’s largest wheat producer) and also the Ukraine. In Syria, the Middle East’s lone grain exporter, drought swiped 4 million tons from this year’s harvest. Meanwhile, its neighboring importers (and Japan) want to import more than 1.1 million tons of wheat.
“In the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to estimate our biggest wheat harvest in three years, even though excessive rain damaged a portion of the harvest. Wheat’s $7.7 billion annual value ranks it fourth among crops produced in the United States – behind corn, soybeans and hay. And half of the wheat grown in the U.S. market is exported, according to the USDA.
“But taken together, global inventories of wheat are at a 26-year low. And that’s why wheat prices peaked Wednesday at $9.1725 a bushel.”
“We can not rule out $10 for wheat,” Takaki Shigemoto, an analyst at Okachi & Co. in Tokyo who has been researching grain markets for 25 years, told Bloomberg. “Exporters are reducing the amount to curb domestic food prices, while importers are trying to secure as much grain as possible.”
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