Breathtakingly idiotic claim from CARE International: Barely over a decade from now, CO2 will cut African agricultural productivity in half

Ehrhart said by 2020, climatic changes would have contributed to water stress, land degradation, lower crop yields and increased risk of wild fires, resulting in a 50 percent decline in agricultural productivity.

Save the planet, kill the kids | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But good news for Porritt. His suggested baby cull might not be necessary, now that the bitter cold is bumping off pensioners...

Kentucky freezes; Obama dines on $100 a pound steak

Think of the stories that would have been written if President Bush had been entertaining guests on steak that costs $100 a pound while millions were shivering without power in the midsection of the country.

In the name of Gore's CO2 scam, should we pay to scrap completely usable "old" cars?

“During the Great Depression of the 1930s, agricultural price support programs led to vast amounts of food being deliberately destroyed at a time when malnutrition was a serious problem in the United States and hunger marches were taking place in cities across the country. For example, the federal government bought 6 million hogs in 1933 alone and destroyed them. Huge amounts of farm produce were plowed under, in order to keep it off the market and maintain prices at the officially fixed level, and vast amounts of milk were poured down the sewers for the same reason. Meanwhile, many American children were suffering from diseases caused by malnutrition.”
Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics (3rd Edition, Basic Books, 2007), p. 56.