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MediaMatters: CNN & Global Warming reporting
Posted April 11th, 2007 by Suzanne
From MediaMatters: "On the April 6 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, CNN correspondent Carol Costello reported on "coal miner-turned-CEO of Murray Energy Corporation" Robert Murray's views on global warming, including his opinion that former Vice President Al Gore is "the shaman of global goofiness and gloom and doom." Costello concluded the report on Murray by claiming, without evidence or rebuttal, "What he's really concerned about are people losing their jobs." But Costello did not report that several of Murray's own mines have reportedly been embroiled in controversy over labor rights and substandard safety conditions."
Full article here:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200704100009
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There is ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production-with serious policitcal implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food output could begin quite soon, perhaps only ten years from now. The regions destined to feel its impact are the great wheat-producing lands of Canada and the U.S.S.R in the north, along with a number of marginally self-sufficient tropical areas-parts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina and Indonesia-where the growing season is dependent upon the rains brought by the monsoon. The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meterologists are hardpressed to keep up with it. In England, farmers have seen there growing season decline by about two weeks since 1950, with a resulant over-all loss in grain production estimated at up to 100,000 tons annually. During the same time, the average temperature around the equator has risen by a fraction of a degree-a fraction that in some areas can mean drought and desolation. Last April, in the most devasting outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded, 148 twisters killed more than 300 people and caused half a billion dollars' worth of damage in thirteen U.S. states.
This is a quote from the April 28, 1975 edition of Newsweek titled The Cooling World. If you do not believe it go to this link http://www.glennbeck.com/2006news/newsweek-coolingworld.pdf
This is know to many
A company I am involved with is a consultant to local governments on security matter and we have know for a while that this is an issue. Follow the wheat and you will see the course we are heading down just from massive growers thinking they can make money else where. Now throw in weather related problems.
This can be reversed by fostering the family farms My family came here from Denmark in 1868 to Sheffield Ill. and farmed like so many others. The family farm was a quarter if not more of the percentage of workforce deployment then after WW2 had the bottom dropout and it has stayed dropped. Today there are very few family farms.
We need to reverse this trend. If the suppliers were more dependent on the local populations versus the global gut; Perhaps they would gown what was locales demanded; There are many organic and low impact farmers trying to scrape out a living. We need to support them and our elected leaders need to craft policy that reflect this too.
The reduction in transportation and food spoilage-- let alone the carbon emissions reduction make this worth takin a spin on the ole tractor. I feel that the connection of the people to the food makes for a more natural cycle and it supports local food security concerns .
Nelson Jacobsen
Washington DC