The trouble with liberals is they feel - they feel an imperative to save the environment and will do so using bio-fuel (as one source), but like every other progressive idea, a little good comes with a great deal of harm. Harm that liberals are unable, or unwilling to foresee, when they are plotting out the safety to planet earth using biofuels.
Interesting that people, reasonably bright I am sure, so passionate, myopic, and blinded by the desire to save the planet that they fail to understand what they are creating is worse than the problem they seek to remedy. Time and again this has been the case. From the US to Australia to Europe. And the people suffer. That's the good thing about liberals - they don't need to worry about human suffering, they just have to feel they are doing their best.
We know that ethanol is dangerous to the atmosphere and in case of some pollutants, more deadly than petroleum based fuels.
We also know the human cost of biofuels has not even begun to get exposure ... until the article in the LA Times on June 16, 2008.
Human Cost of Brazil's biofuels boom
by Patrick J. McDonnell
[...]
More than 300,000 farmworkers are seasonal cane cutters in Brazil, the government says. By most accounts, their work and living conditions range from basic to deplorable to outright servitude.
[...]
at least 18 cane cutters have died of dehydration, heart attacks or other ailments linked to exhaustion in this region
[...]
In its annual report, Amnesty International last month highlighted the plight of Brazil's biofuel workers, more than 1,000 of whom were rescued in June 2007 after allegedly being held in slave-like conditions at a plantation owned by a major ethanol producer, Pagrisa, in the Amazonian state of Para.
[...]
Brazilian officials acknowledge that fines and prosecutions have largely failed to improve the workers' lot. Cases drag on in court until sanctions are reduced or owners cleared. Few, if any, violators go to jail. Too few inspectors are available to police this giant country and its behemoth agribusiness, which have made it a world leader in exports of soybeans, beef and coffee, among other foodstuffs.
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Coolest Winter Since 2001
According to NOAA - It has been the coolest winter since 2001 in the US and globally. This would support the proposition offered by some in the scientific community that global warming ended in the late 1990s and global cooling began.
In the US, the average temperature was .2degrees F above the 20th century average. It is the 54th coolest winter since 1895.
Our planet is changing and while humans may give birth, build buildings, fly planes, go to the moon, build nuclear bombs, and kill thousands of people in a day, we are not able to effect the change of the planet. We are so insignificant and meaningless that the fact we think we could is itself insignificant.
We need to buy winter boots as the years get cooler. we will see hot summers that will be shorter and increasingly dryer followed by colder winters lasting longer.
There, my prediction. Put it up there with the 'scientific consensus' - its as factual.
March 13, 2008, NOAA website
And those people who suggest we throw a corn stalk into our cars and save the environment. Same ones who protest everything. Are also the ones responsible for the devastation that would occur if we followed their idiotic plan.
In the US, the average temperature was .2degrees F above the 20th century average. It is the 54th coolest winter since 1895.
Our planet is changing and while humans may give birth, build buildings, fly planes, go to the moon, build nuclear bombs, and kill thousands of people in a day, we are not able to effect the change of the planet. We are so insignificant and meaningless that the fact we think we could is itself insignificant.
We need to buy winter boots as the years get cooler. we will see hot summers that will be shorter and increasingly dryer followed by colder winters lasting longer.
There, my prediction. Put it up there with the 'scientific consensus' - its as factual.
March 13, 2008, NOAA website
And those people who suggest we throw a corn stalk into our cars and save the environment. Same ones who protest everything. Are also the ones responsible for the devastation that would occur if we followed their idiotic plan.
UPDATE: March 21, 2008
Snow suspends spring
Season now 2nd-snowiest in city's history
Like an aging prizefighter still packing a mean punch, the mighty winter of 2007-'08 took another swing at southern Wisconsin on Friday, smacking the area with up to 15 inches of snow and knocking out plans for thousands of Good Friday travelers at Mitchell International Airport.
The 10.9 inches of snow measured at the airport by 10 p.m. raised the winter's total to the second highest on record for a single season - 95.4 inches.
AND
It's a record year for snowfall
BY DAVID JESSEThe Ann Arbor News
It's just as you suspected - this has been the snowiest winter ever in the Ann Arbor area, or at least since 1880 when record-keeping started.
And it's not over yet.
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