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Global crisis as food prices soar

Quote: Originally Posted by screener hi paradox, and the bank rate went down another 1/4 today. pretty soon they'll be paying us to take the dollar and we'll all be starving but we'll have all that paper lettuce to eat. Fiat Salad, MMMmmm. I heard the Chinese are using our dollars to wrap eggrolls. Apparently ...

Quote: Originally Posted by cbacba I guess they haven't figured out yet that oil (and hence energy) is no longer valued in US $. Hence inflating the currency to give away money. They've been doing it way too long now and the value has dropped even relatively from $1.30/UK pound sterling now to $2.05/UK pound sterling and who knows ...

alternatives aren't really viable alternatives and never have been. there is now serious ramifications to the cost of fuel and the cost of food production. The unsustainable government subsidized food burning project is only a minor player in the unfolding disaster now. It's beginning to look like the economically illiterate that keep crying that we can restructure society without no ...

New Ocean Current Discovered

karmakop, good link, It looks like the cold low salinity water coming out of the arctic not only sinks but like the titanic when it sinks, takes down everything around it as well. There was another link there showing similar patterns in the North Atlantic. Both seemed to cause bulges of higher level warmer higher salinity water to the south. Circulation changes that affect not just the fish ...

karmakop, good link, It looks like the cold low salinity water coming out of the arctic not only sinks but like the titanic when it sinks, takes down everything around it as well. There was another link there showing similar patterns in the North Atlantic. Both seemed to cause bulges of higher level warmer higher salinity water to the south. Circulation changes that affect not just the fish ...

it's the only viable alternative on the short term and developing nuclear is the only longer term viable option. One can fill in the gaps and specialty apps ever so slightly with alternatives such as wind and solar power. There are consequences to these as well as the fact that they are not truly stable. Despite the pop view that the earth system is fragile, this is clearly not the case...

Sunspot cycles may hold key to global warming, cooling Quote: Past cool periods, identified with the late stages of the "Little Ice Age" and with the Maunder and Dalton climate minima, closely correlate with low sunspot numbers (astronomers have kept close tabs on sunspots since Galileo's time). Some solar-physicists are now saying if the current cycle doesn't...

Interesting linkie Paradox showing another facet to the discussion,and for those who say its all over read this Quote: What are we to make of this? The recent climate conference held in New York City, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, provides some answers. Several hundreds climatologists in attendance dispelled notions that the global warming debate is over. ...