April 08, 2008
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/the_beer_facts_of_warming/
How low can the scare-mongers stoop?
BEER will be short supply, more expensive and may taste different as
climate change affects barley production, a scientist says.
Here's my tip: The world will never run out of beer.
But to the scare. First, what's really making beer more expensive isn't
global warming, but green "solutions":
Farmers are planting less barley because the expanding market for
biofuels like E85 composed of 85% ethanol are driving up corn prices.
Second, the International Barley Genetics Symposium has just been told
that barley supplies aren't threatened by global warming, after all.
Rather the reverse:
Over the last few years there has been a steady increase in barley and
scientists believe that with the increasing global temperatures and the
challenges posed by climate change, barley cultivation would expand even
more, as this crop grows in warm areas.
More warm and more carbon dioxide actually helps plants, which is rather
basic biology.
But why spoil another warming scare?
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
".it should not be surprising to see hordes of former Reds, or of those
who otherwise would have become Reds, turning from Marxism and becoming
the Greens of the ecology movement. It is the same fundamental
philosophy in a different guise, ready as ever to wage war on the
freedom and well-being of the individual." Dr. George Reisman's book
Capitalism
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