Global warming has been blamed on hampering efforts to fight poverty, according to U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro.  The food and oil crises are causing significant hurdles to achieving the 10-year Brussels Programme of Action.  While the U.N. is quick to blame food shortages on rising oil prices, let’s not forget that the great ethanol bust caused rice, corn and wheat prices to skyrocket earlier this year.  So, yes, the U.N. is correct:  climate change has hurt the fight against poverty.  But not in the way they describe.
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Al Gore, speaking today with Wangari Maathai, said the U.S. must be a leader in stopping global deforestation to fight global poverty, climate change and international instability.  From the article:
“We have to start reducing our pollution and substituting renewable sources of energy,” Gore said.”But, we also have to provide the means for stopping deforestation. One of the most effective things we can …

Nitrogen, an odorless and colorless gas found in 80% of the atmosphere is now the focus of climate change scientists who think it’s another component in climate change.  The 80% naturally-occurring atmospheric nitrogen isn’t the problem, according to the article.  It’s the 1% reactive nitrogen found in the 80% atmospheric concentration that’s going to affect the climate.  Reactive nitrogen bonds with other elements to form smog, create dead zones in oceans and cause cancer.  And humans have doubled the amount of reactive nitrogen in the atmosphere.  Of course, nitrogen is …

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signed into law today legislation to drop all state taxes on cellulosic biofuels.  The plan, which also requires heating oil and diesel to be 2% biofuel by 2010, would provide incentives to industries that produce cellulosic ethanol.  The problem is, according to this Cato Institute article, that there is no cellulosic ethanol industry at this time and the costs associated with producing ethanol from biomass is five times the cost of producing corn-based ethanol.  So expect the new fuels, if industry shows an interest in that …

A new report issued earlier this month by the Space and Science Research Center says that we have turned the corner on global warming and entering a new phase of global cooling, which may bring many ill effects to the inhabitants of this world.  The SSRC performs many of their climate change research projects based on solar trends, and they feel the lack of solar activity has, and will, contribute heavily to our cooling planet.  The group also mentions that this will be the best time for human space exploration …

The cold and wet spring in the mid west United States has eliminated all chances of keeping a tradition alive in Iowa:  eating locally-grown sweet corn for Independence Day.  Sure could have used some of that global warming and global warming-induced dry weather in Iowa this spring.
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Hi everyone and welcome to the week-that-was in global warming hoax news!  I hope everyone took a moment to visit or remember their father on this Father’s Day in the U.S.
Sunday, June 8th:
When you think of socialism, do images of China and the former Soviet Union come to mind?  Believe it or not, it’s slowing coming to the United States as environmentalists push for more control in government.  The recently defeated Lieberman-Warner bill debated in the U.S. Senate is one example where environmentalists are pushing their agenda for control through …

And, among other things, carbon dioxide is a trace gas.  For every 100.000 molecules of atmosphere, 38 (just 38, not 38,000) are carbon dioxide.  With it being such a tiny part of the overall atmosphere, how can it possible cause so much harm?  It can’t, according to Coleman.
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The Weekly Reader, a magazine for kids distributed in schools, recently had an article on global warming which quoted the IPCC conclusions that it is anthropogenic in origin.  The article then linked to a kids EPA site that depicts bulldozers tearing down trees, which contributes to global warming.  But author Chris makes a very good point:  the corn-for-ethanol craze is only forcing more land to be cleared.  More having cake and eating it too from the left-leaning environmentalists.
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The spin in this article is easy to spot.  New record prices for corn are caused by midwest rain, rising oil costs and a falling dollar.  Six paragraphs into the article there is a mention of a push to grow corn for ethanol.  Regardless, corn prices are up to $6.73 per bushel and soy, wheat and rice are all up as well.
Read More: www.bloomberg.com