More news is out about the debacle that is ethanol-based biofuel, and it’s not good.  A recent report found that 75% of the increase in food prices between 2002 and 2008 can be attributed to biofuel production.  Food prices have soared 140% during this time.  Food for thought for the environmentalists, I suppose.
Source: fromtheduke.blogspot.com

The $11 billion in annual subsidies given by the United States, Europe and Canada for plant-based biofuels isn’t doing much to reduce carbon emissions according to a report by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.  They go on to say that carbon emissions from vehicles in areas where the subsidies are received are [...]

I’m proud of the British government right now.  Finally someone over there has awakened to the fact that biofuels cause food prices to skyrocket and massive shortages around the globe.  This is in direct conflict with the EU, who says rising food prices are due to increased demand for meat and dairy as well as [...]

100 million people have been pushed below the poverty line, thanks to rising food prices. A baby of Gore and his global warming myth, biofuels manufactured from food is causing deforestation and additional use of water and fertilizer to grow the crops necessary to make it [...]

Premier Ed Stelmach says Alberta, Canada, will take a ‘big hit’ if taxes are levied on carbon. Home heating costs and food prices would rise as a result of the vast amounts of fuel and fertilizer used in agriculture.
Source: www.theglobeandmail.com

This article from Source: FromTheDuke.Blogspot.com points out the hypocrisy of the environmentalist movement from unnecessarily rallying to ban DDT to using scare tactics to forgo the development of nuclear plants to global warming, which is causing food prices to soar and people to riot over food. When environmentalists talk about standards, it’s a one-way street [...]

Good morning, folks, and welcome to the Global Warming Week-in-Review.
Sunday, May 11th:
10ksnookers.blogspot.com provided some interesting commentary on carbon credits and the cap-and-trade system, saying that it’s just a government-sanctioned ration on goods and services?  How?  Both systems limit the total amount of greenhouse gas that can be emitted into the atmosphere, which results in a limit [...]

Welcome to the Global Warming Week-In-Review! I hope everyone will take a few minutes out of their day to call, visit or remember their mother today as we celebrate Mother’s Day here in the U.S. Now, let’s get down to business.
Sunday, May 4th:
A new threat was unveiled Sunday as scientists determined that recent [...]

Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama are both cooling to biofuel use as food prices skyrocket and the dire predictions of global warming fail to materialize, even as the planet’s carbon dioxide levels continue to increase. Michigan received it’s deepest snowfall in 50 years and [...]

Amid a frenzy of news reports covering backlash over skyrocketing food prices due to the corn-based ethanol boondoggle, the global warming hoax could be in trouble.
Time Magazine recently reported in the Clean Energy Scam that rain forests were disappearing at an alarming rate, thanks to biofuel use.  The sad part about biofuels is that they are less [...]