FOOD = ENERGY & ENERGY = FOOD is an equation I devised to remind people that it takes so much energy to produce, transport, and safely store food that any increase in the price of energy immediately results in food-cost inflation.
OEN regularly has articles about growing your own food. Some of us have lived off the grid while doing so, at least as far back as the early eighties. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Living-on-Sunshine-Underg-by-Daniel-Geery-110318-547.html At least one person I know has written a book about building solar greenhouses, back in the seventies: http://www.amazon.com/Solar-Greenhouses-Underground-Daniel-Geery/dp/0830612726
Absurdly pricey wind and solar-power schemes, if implemented to any significant degree, will always result in absurdly pricey food that only the wealthy can afford to eat. In my view, the renewable-energy fad is just another false religion created largely by the wealthy and by corrupt politicians pandering to greedy special-interest groups.
I won't waste time noting that I have been posting links to solar energy and other alternative energy developments here for several years. If you're too lazy to read a few, it is not my fault. I expected more research from my sixth graders and usually got it.
Their "green" ideas starve the poor yet produce no significant reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions as a benefit. A study conducted by our federal government's own National Research Council states that windmills and solar schemes are not worth subsidizing because their real-world effectiveness at reducing greenhouse gas emissions is insignificant. The study also says that biofuel production increases greenhouse-gas release.
So are we criticizing the government or turning to it for advice? I would recommend www.rmi.org in a heartbeat, before turning to government studies. In fact, I have, on more occasions than I can possibly recall. And I would advise against just about any government funded study these days.
Out-of-touch Al Gore, now a strict vegan, recently purchased yet another giant mansion, the newest one an $8,875,000 ocean-view villa in trendy Montecito, California. Al Gore's jet-set lifestyle burns up far more fossil fuels per year than the unglamorous life of the average American survivin g on a low-paying job and food stamps. Our own government and global-warming gurus clearly do not represent the views of the majority of American citizens.
I have many criticisms of Mr. Gore, but what has this to do with the facts this article is allegedly about?
As there has been no measurable global warming worldwide for many years, and there has been a recent increase in record low temperatures, some scientists are now worried about the possible onset of a new little ice age caused by reduced sunspot activity and reduced solar output. Many scientists suggest that CO2 is much less effective at raising Earth temperatures than previously thought, and that ever-fluctuating solar output rules our weather. As my own crystal ball is broken, I do not claim to know what future weather will be like. I strongly suspect that no one can predict long-term weather accurately simply because there are too many unknown variables that affect climate.
A ten second Google image search of "global warming charts and graphs" suggests that your first sentence is pure deception or a sign of brain damage. Your last sentence is partially correct, which is why so many scientists are now devoting their careers to this critical topic for the future of humankind. And their findings are just about daily showing that things are far worse than we thought. Check www.sciencedaily.com for starters.
There are many other dangers to worry about besides Climate Change that do not get anywhere near the same amount of press coverage. My number-one worry is the affordability and survivability of the human food supply, which Barack Obama seems adamant to destroy with his biofuel schemes. Biofuel farming has raised the cost of fertilizer, farmland, and food all over the world. The higher the cost of food, the more innocent people die of malnutrition and related illness worldwide, and the more Americans need food stamps just to survive. The Democratic Party has disgraced and discredited itself by conspiring with Big Ethanol in a war against affordable food and their own grandchildren. When we have eroded away all of our irreplaceable topsoil growing corn for engine-rotting, energy-inefficient ethanol, what will our grandchildren eat?
I agree with you here, Christopher, as do the majority of environmentalists. What has this to do with whatever you are trying to say?
Nuclear war is still a major threat, and recombinant-DNA equipment has become so cheap and easily available that any mentally ill scientist could produce a doomsday virus in his own basement that could kill billions. A number of synthetic killer viruses have already been created in the name of academic research. The subconscious psychological motives for this dangerous genetic-engineering experimentation is deeply troubling. What if a deadly super-virus escapes the laboratory by accident?
To answer you last question, all our problems would likely be over in a hurry. The mutations just in bacteria alone, from global warming, are already happening at an alarming rate. So we don't even need mentally ill scientists, just mentally deficient folks hollering that there is no global warming. Thank you for your input here.
The Yellowstone Park volcano is long overdue to erupt, a cataclysmic event that will destroy our food-growing capacity with volcanic ash, and by blocking out the Sun's light for years. There are a number of giant super-volcanoes around the world that could reduce Earth's human population to a tiny few through starvation. A world-killing asteroid could appear at any moment, and with little warning if it arrives from an orbit that hides itself from our telescopes.
Should we worry that global warming or global cooling will set off the big volcano that is long overdue? Or that either warming or cooling will attract an asteroid? I don't quite get it.
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