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I have written a number of times on the silliness of food miles and the locavore movement (here and here and here).  For some reason the energy and resource intensity of foods is being judged merely on one component – transportation of the end product – which actually is only a tiny competent of food costs (and thus their resource use).  Is it really more environmentally sensitive for us Phoenicians to grow our corn in the Arizona desert, where soils are unproductive and water must be imported from hundreds of miles away, rather than have it grown in the fertile soils of Iowa and trucked in?

Michael E. Mann (michaelemann) on Twitter

...And forest fires need oxygen. RT @brookejarvis: Hahahahahaha: plantsneedco2.org

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Michael E. Mann (michaelemann) on Twitter

@webwires @MarcAbrahams @brookejarvis Sometimes ridicule is the best way to expose sophistry for what it is. I think that's the point here.

Mann -vs- ATI case–unsettled | Watts Up With That?

[David Schnare] There were some block buster things that came out of the hearing, as you’ll see when we get our write up done. For example, the court forced UVA to admit on the record that the climate change debate is by no means settled. Just one example.

Warning Signs: Overthrowing Environmentalism

As it has become common knowledge that CO2 is vital to all life on Earth and plays no role in affecting the climate, ordinary people have concluded that global warming in particular and environmentalism in general is a giant fraud.

No one argues that nations should not attend to the basic maintenance of clean air and water. That view predates the environmental movement, but the stranglehold on nation’s economies and the ability to engage in any form of commerce has reached a breaking point. The fact is, the U.S. has made great strides over the years and there are limits to how “clean” the air and water can or even should be. The EPA wanted to regulate “dust” at one point until Congress put an end to that insanity.