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Paul Ehrlich on AFP campaign against carbon tax: ‘Morons on the march’ | JunkScience.com

From the man whose first sentence in his 1968 book Population Bomb was, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.”

Fuel Fix » Ethanol leading to a corn-based bubble

A corn-based bubble is building on the horizon, with expectations of a large oversupply of high-priced ethanol that has nowhere to go.

Green Investors Face Bankruptcy As Spain Cuts Subsidies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Spain’s government plans to reduce subsidies to renewable-energy producers by 10% to 20%. The move could drive tens of thousands of struggling solar-energy companies and individual investors into default.

Anthony Hilton: Green Investors May Never Recoup Green Investments | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The risk is that any high tariffs promised to the industry to allow them to recoup the costs of expensive green investments will be revoked, leaving the industry and its investors stranded with hopelessly uneconomic schemes.

Southeastern Colorado wheat crop a disaster from drought, freezes - The Denver Post

Ongoing drought and late-spring freezes are conspiring to produce one of southeastern Colorado's poorest wheat crops in memory.

"It's the worst I've ever seen," said Kiowa County farmer Chris Tallman. "We are at zero. We will have absolutely no wheat crop. The entire county is full of dead wheat fields."
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"The freeze was just the death knell," said farmer Burl Scherler, who grows wheat near the Kansas border. "I've never in my 40 years here had a wheat stand just die like this."