American Thinker: None of the Above on Energy

Unless reversed by a conservative president and Congress following 2012, Obama's failed energy policy will have devastating consequences. Americans will pay much higher prices for energy in the future, as high as $12 a gallon for gas and four times the current price of about 15 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity. More important yet, high energy prices will sap economic growth, and slower growth will result in structurally high unemployment, declining living standards, and a weakening of our national defense. Maybe this is what Obama wants -- I believe that it is -- but it is not what most Americans hope to see.

Slow growth and a weakened military may not seem like such an awful fate to the fashionable idiots on the left. It is, in fact, exactly what they are seeking: an America brought to its knees, one weak little nation among many, no more powerful or influential than Bolivia or Peru. A nation that sits happily on the sidelines of history, content to consume its "fair share" of the earth's resources and live at the average level of the world's economy, somewhere between Nigeria and Moldova.

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Now, if there were to be a general warming, say a degree on average over some long time, what do you think will happen to the planting and harvesting dates in Figure 4? Do you think those farmers would keep planting at the same time of year, year after year, in the face of increasing hot days summer and decreasing yield? Do we really face a 1% drop in yield for every degree day over 30°C?

Naw … in answer to the question in the title of this post, farmers are smarter than the L2011 climate scientists. If temperatures change, the farmers change their planting times … what do you do?