Saturday, June 11, 2011

Scientists race to avoid a bitter climate change harvest - Sci-Tech
It is going to get much worse for the hungry because global food prices will more than double within 20 years, aid agency Oxfam International said in a June 1 report. Flat-lining yields, a scramble for fertile land and water, and environmental crises are reversing decades of progress against hunger, it said.
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"What we expect in the future is there will be much more unexpected events, much more extreme climate change," said Concepcion Calpe, a senior economist with the FAO in Rome.
NYT's Timothy Egan Admires GOP's Moderate Jon Huntsman, Unlike 'Wackos' in 'Sea of Craziness' | NewsBusters.org
Timothy Egan, liberal reporter turned leftist online columnist for the New York Times, gave a potential kiss-of-death endorsement Thursday evening to a Republican presidential candidate -- moderate former Utah governor (and Obama ambassador to China) Jon Huntsman, in "The G.O.P.'s Jon Huntsman, the Reluctant Mormon." You see, unlike the "fact-denial chorus" who throw "red meat to the wackos" in a "sea of craziness" (now those are some seriously mixed metaphors) Huntsman is a thoughtful skeptic (i.e., he believes in manmade global warming and gay civil unions).
Kakagon Sloughs Climate Change [Hoax] Project Receives Funding | Ashland Current
A climate change monitoring program in the Kakagon-Bad River Sloughs will be supported by a grant of $199,985 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The grant will help pay for the development of a Comprehensive Climate Change Monitoring Plan dedicated to the Kakagon-Bad River Sloughs area, considered a vital cultural and ecological resource by the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.

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