MLB endorsed 'Global Warming' manipulations result in food shortages and riots--UK to reconsider

(TimesOnlineUK): "Experts told The Times yesterday that prices of rice, wheat and vegetable oil would rise further.

• They also forecast that high prices and shortages — which have caused riots in developing countries such as Bangladesh and Haiti — were here to stay,

and that the days of cheap produce would not return. Food-price inflation has already pushed up a typical family’s weekly shopping bill by 15 per cent in a year....

• (Prime Minister) Gordon Brown responded to mounting concerns about the global rise in food prices by signalling that he might

scale back Britain’s commitment to biofuels,

• which critics say has exacerbated the food crisis because land has been
• given over to grow crops for energy rather than food."
• TimesonlineUK, 4/23/08

And Science Magazine says greenhouse gases will actually increase if you follow the current Global Warming/carbon offsets propaganda (which is also being heavily promoted by Major League Baseball):

• "Most prior studies have found that substituting biofuels for gasoline will reduce greenhouse carbon through the growth of the feedstock.

These analyses have failed to count the carbon emissions that occur as farmers worldwide respond to higher prices

• and convert forest and grassland to new cropland to replace the grain (or cropland) diverted to biofuels.

By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land-use change, we found that

• corn-based ethanol,instead of producing a 20% savings,

• nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and

• increases greenhouse gases for 167 years. Biofuels from switchgrass, if grown on U.S. corn lands, increase emissions by 50%.

This result raises concerns about large biofuel mandates and highlights the value of using waste products."...

• Originally published Feb. 29, 2008, here March 25, 2008, "Use of US Croplands for biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases," ScienceMag.org

P.S. China uses fossil fuels for 70% of its energy needs and has no intention of following any "carbon offsets" program. Even if the MLB endorsed program were correct, with China refusing to participate, no global improvement could happen. Reuters, 4/23/08, "China Down to 12 Days Worth of Coal." via the Drudge Report

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