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More Food Riots In Developing Countries As U.S./EU Politicos Keep Diverting Food For "Green" Fuel Policies

Read here. Map source here. Major developed countries are diverting huge amounts of their agricultural crops in order to produce ethanol-types of fuels. The supposed purpose of doing so is to reduce the reliance on fossil fuels, thus causing "less" harm to the environment and the climate. Unfortunately, it is well known within scientific circles that fuel production from biomass is actually more harmful for the environment.

Another very ugly result of diverting billions of tons of agriculture to fuel production is the consequence of food shortages and skyrocketing food prices, especially when other sources of food are interrupted due to natural weather events. As the populace of Mozambique knows, food shortages and high prices determine life and death in their environment.

"MAPUTO, Mozambique, Sept. 3, 2010 (UPI) -- A 30 percent rise in bread prices triggered riots in Maputo, Mozambique, that killed at least seven people and injured 228, government officials said. The riots Wednesday and Thursday in the country's capital prompted fears that food protests could spread across poorer African countries relying on agricultural imports, similar to the riots of 2007-08, the Financial Times reported..."

Should Fanatical Environmental Literature Be Used In The U.S. Public School System?

As the recent Maryland green-terror incident reveals, environmentalists are ramping up the level of violence. The Al Gore, Greenpeace-type of fanatical propaganda is definitely having an impact and it raises serious questions about whether school systems, teachers and administrators could ultimately be held accountable.

Do the many emotionally, dysfunctional young people who populate our schools really need to be scared-out-of-their-wits by ludicrous, catastrophic enviro-fanatic predictions? 

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Green celebrities and organizations pushing this fear propaganda are urging young people to be more militant and violent, and the U.S. school systems are foolishly performing as accomplices. Because of the Maryland incident, the potential liability issues faced by a U.S. public school just multiplied immensely if one of their own "home-grown" green-terror students decides to take action.

h/t: No Tricks Zone

Does Human CO2 Cause Extreme Weather Events? Another Climate Scientist Says 'No' As Does The Data

Read here. The elites-caused global warming hysteria is producing some truly dysfunctional behavior by individuals, due to the exaggerated fear about extreme weather and climate. As it stands though, global warming and human CO2 are not causing an increase in extreme disaster events. Climate scientists examining the actual data say there is not the connection that global warming alarmists claim.

"And yet it is this latter concept, more stuff being built in harm’s way, that is the primary cause of modern day weather catastrophes—much more so than the weather itself and much, much more so than any alterations to the weather (be they detectable or not) from human activities.

For example, a study in an upcoming issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society by Laurens Bouwer concluded: "Here I present a review and analysis of recent quantitative studies on past increases in weather disaster losses and the role of anthropogenic climate change. Analyses show that although economic losses from weather related hazards have increased, anthropogenic climate change so far did not have a significant impact on losses from natural disasters. The observed loss increase is caused primarily by increasing exposure and value of capital at risk."

In other words, “detectibility” has not (yet?) been achieved in damages statistics from extreme weather events. But, the quest to establish a definitive link between weather events and human-caused climate change is charging forward, fueled, it seems to me, by the desire for retribution more so than for scientific knowledge."

A Gore AGW-Jihadist Goes Violent: Will The IPCC, NASA & Democrats Still Push Propaganda That Incites Violence?

Read here. A hostage taker, primarily motivated by the global warming fear-mongering and propaganda that Gore, the IPCC, NASA scientists and most leftists constantly push, has been killed at an office building in Maryland.

Gore, the principal pimp for CO2 'cap & trade' wealth generation, has attempted to influence public opinion with seductive and over-the-top scare tactics, which is now leading some to resort to violence. Gore is not the only person culpable for promoting violent acts and civil unrest to further the global warming scare agenda. Climategate scientists who populate the IPCC, NASA, NOAA and other national climate agencies are also responsible, due to their use of similar scare-propaganda. Without a shred of scientific evidence, Big Government funded scientists are doing their best to frighten the public into a panic about global warming. For many, when panic sets in, violence is not far behind.

It may be time to hold government scientists and agencies who shout "fire" to induce panic, which then results in violence, accountable. Certainly, the Maryland AGW-jihadist hostages may have a case against Al Gore and his cohorts - let the lawsuits begin!

Armed Man Believed to Be Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building

"Among his demands from the manifesto on his website: Find solutions so that people stop breeding as well as stopping using Oil in order to REVERSE Global warming and the destruction of the planet!"

"MSNBC reports: Lee said he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” Perhaps inspired by Gore, and Dr. James Hansen’s recent call for civil disobedience, we have today’s environmental public relations train wreck turned armed hostage situation."

Update: A leftist/liberal is pretty much on the same page about what Gore & Company are responsible for - needless hysteria that will breed emotional outbursts, sometimes violent.

Update: Experts label this incident as politically inspired  terrorism (are they saying "Gore-inspired"?). The Discovery hostages might want to consider going after the deep pockets of Gore, Soros, et al.

Update: MSM and Democrats were quick to assign blame on Rush Limbaugh for Oklahoma City terrorism, but aren't too eager to blame the sex-crazed, enviro-leftist Gore for pushing an eco-terrorist to a tipping point in Silver Springs, Maryland.

Peer-Reviewed Study: 50% of European Warming Due To Cleaner Air; Climate Models Don't Work

Read here. Okay, okay....the title should read 50% of east Europe's warming is due to cleaner air, and for the record, up to 20% of western Europe's warming is due to the same. Literally, the EU's own clean air regulations and controls have caused major warming, without the help of CO2. And, the result will be less warming in the future since there is less pollution to clean from the skies.

"Over Europe, the marked solar radiation increase since the 1980s is thought to have contributed to the observed large continental warming.....Statistically linking local visibility changes with temperature variations, we estimate that the reduction in low-visibility conditions could have contributed on average to about 10–20% of Europe’s recent daytime warming and to about 50% of eastern European warming. Large improvements in air quality and visibility already achieved in Europe over the past decades may mean that future reductions in the frequency of low-visibility events will be limited, possibly leading to less rapid regional warming.”"

The other major conclusion from this study is that climate models are worthless - a topic we've visited often.

"Unfortunately, current regional climate models are probably not ready to reproduce the physics underlying these trends.....As yet, state-of-the-art regional aerosol models have been shown not to be able to simulate with sufficient skill the total aerosol burden over Europe. Simulating trends in low-visibility phenomena, and their impact on climate, therefore remains an open challenge for models."

More Proof That Extreme Cooling/Warming Periods Due To Natural Causes, Not Human Caused

Read here. Map source here. Those "wild and crazy" Norwegians decided to conduct some home-grown, intimate fjord research. Their up close and definitive findings? Amazingly, they discovered temperatures appear to oscillate from warm-to-cold-to-warm over extended periods, naturally.

Isn't that just incredibly, freaking amazing? (Are leftists/Marxists/liberals/progressives/Democrats aware of this yet?)

"Just as has been discovered numerous times and throughout the entire world, northern Norway has experienced alternating multi-century periods of relative cold and warmth over prior millennia. And this pervasive natural phenomenon appears to be totally sufficient  to explain 20th-century warming (there has been no more so far this century) without any need to invoke the help of the greenhouse effect of CO2 or any of the atmosphere's other greenhouse gases."

Additional climate history postings.