Put another way, many climate experts are complete morons.
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Reblogged this on Catholic Glasses and commented:
I agree with you.
Give the data to NCDC; they’ll “fix” it
How many US farmers use Yo-Yos ?
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A forecast for Iceland in 2050
http://en.vedur.is/about-imo/news/nr/2989
http://youtu.be/ojzKfj4_Alg
Look at the temperature map they use (min 3.32). Between 1930 and 1960 temperatures were much warmer. What a joke.
There is nothing as great as somebody exposing its own lies.
Comments are disabled for that video. I wonder why? 😉
CO2 is bad for crops, as is sunlight, water, nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus
Each species occupies its own niche in nature. If the conditions change, some species adapt, others become extinct. Environ MENTALISTS are of a species that only flourishes where there are grants & a miasma of CO2 fear. As the grants dry up & CO2 re-asserts its status as a plant food, watermelons will perish, because they are genetically inferior, as illustrated by their colouration (green & red), delusional behaviour (Panicus Modus) & not being able to comprehend the wheel of fortune. http://cliodynamics.info/MathHist.htm
I look forward to the purge, whence they are flushed out of society.
Unlike the weather crop yields are tracked in detail by the private sector because they are a commodity. This helps prevent the government or any NGO from distorting the data. Now what I would like to know is why the price of beef and pork products have gone up so much in the past year when obviously fodder is in abundance. I don’t think that the really pretty limited use of yeild for biofuels can come close to explaining the increases we’ve been seeing. So why the heck are my Porterhouses and bacon so expensive now?
QE1 + QE2 + QE3 +
http://youtu.be/nz_OjtwQLn8
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The Food Safety Modernization Act just went into effect so expect food costs to skyrocket.
I do not know about anyone else but I sold off all my meat animals and went into fiber animals instead since they are not regulated. Any one who decided to stay in production would pass along all the costs associated with gearing up to comply with all the new regulations. Don’t forget the dime size spot of rust that cost the Dollarhite fines of up to $3.9 million in fines for the “crime” of selling more than $500 worth of bunnies during a single calendar year…
I was going to put up a link at the FDA to the full text of the law but it has been removed. SURPRISE!
Anyway the law references the World Trade Organization and Good Agricultural Practices by NAME.
These ‘Good Agricultural Practices’ are from FAO and OIE (UN) The OIE in conjunction with the World Trade Organization developed a draft “GUIDE TO GOOD FARMING PRACTICES ”
This is by Doreen in 2009 during the fight against The Food Safety Modernization Act. She quotes large sections of the bill and the guide to “Guide to Good Farming Practices” This is what any livestock farmer who was following the fight closely would remember.
This is the newest version:
GUIDE TO GOOD FARMING PRACTICES FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTION FOOD SAFETY This has changed a lot since the draft copy I looked at several years ago. The USDA has also morphed the title since the last time I checked:
http://www.rma.usda.gov/pubs/2011/good_farming_practices.pdf
So far I haven’t found anything yet on raising livestock animals for food except the requirement for tagging. All my old links are dead.
There is this:
FAO GAPs (fruits and veggies)
And this:
Heck the University of California @ Davis even goes into home veggie gardens!
anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu/pdf/8366.pdf
The University of California @ Davis is a very big player in the Sustainability fight including the Food Safety law. Orange Cloud (La Vida Locavore website) was attacking any of those against the new food safety bills. She lists her self as Jill Richardson Consultant but she is “UC San Diego” Sustainability Coordinator and is working on the practical aspects of UN Agenda 21 as far as I can tell.
For example:
Raymond Clemencon another faculty member, was one of the negotiators on the Rio Declaration and of the Agenda 21
http://irps.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/raymond-clemencon.htm
Don’t get me started on all that crap…
The simple summary is, all proven and traditional methods of food production, that have been generally safe throughout hundreds of years of practice are now illegal.
Pest control has now moved to chemical means only (no cats in barns…), for example.
And those that thought the regulatory and reporting burden for being ‘certified organic’ were overbearing just had the paperwork and headaches multiply by orders of magnitude.
Think of this being the bastard offspring of Obamacare and NAFTA…
And the consumer gets to pay more and more as farmer after farmer gives up until only the Big Ten are left with a world wide monopoly on food.
Dan Amstutz, a former Cargill Vice-President, drafted the original text of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture while working at the United States Trade Representative’s office. The WTO was the puppet master behind the Food Safety Bill and the Ag Cartel ( the International Food and Agricultural Trade Policy Council) was the puppet master behind the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture. link
I do not generally like to link to Larouche but he has a very nice round-up of the big ten. (one of the eleven has taken over another so now there are ten.)
https://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_cartel_companies.html
And Obamba can’t even show a valid ‘bird’ certificate.
RobertV
Beef and Pork prices have risen 30% since 2010 way out stripping the inflation rate. Some claim that such a huge raise is due to the a rebound. During the recession the herd sizes were decreased and then when the economy picked up there was a shortage and a rush to increase herd sizes. But I don’t buy it. The really big increase has come in the last year or so after the economy had been more or less stable for a time.
There is no doubt in my mind that we are heading towards another recession. There are too many bubbles and the dollar over all has not been performing well. The QEs were/are monetary fantasy and eventually those chickens are going to come home to roost in a big way.
It came about because corn was artificially high…most of it going to biofuel or something stupid like that. And the hard winter…along with the ‘drought’ and ‘climate change’ being tacked on for good measure.
I have a friend who has a small hobby ranch and he can’t explain it to me either. Feed prices have not gone up that much according to him.
There was also an outbreak of a viral pneumonia that pretty much devastated last spring’s piglet crop. They were going well over $100 for a piglet for the FFA/4H kids for the fair, around here this year, usually they are in th $50-$75 range.
Now there is a good explanation for part of it in the Pork prices. I had forgotten about that.
I don’t know what he’s feeding but all my feed has done nothing but go up. Pig and horse feed has gone up 25 to 30 percent in the last few years and whole corn has gone up 70 percent in 6 years. The specialized dog food for our diabetic hound has jumped 35% in the last two years alone. All hay has gone up due to fuel prices so he’s either really lucky or bad at math.
Niel says: “…I don’t know what he’s feeding but all my feed has done nothing but go up.”
Same here. It wasn’t all that long ago hay was $2 a bale instead of $6 and feed has more than doubled from $10/50# to $17/50# in 20 months.
Most of the animal feed is made from Distillers Grains, a cereal byproduct of the distillation process. The ethanol industry commonly sells this waste product cheap to the likes of Purina as a high protein livestock feed. It is actually a better feed and increases feed efficiency. It also unlike raw grains has an almost indefinite shelf life.
This is the main component in the pellets I feed.
Saw that in the soya bean processing plants. The hulls and bean fiber left over after the oil extracted they called “mill feed”. And animal feed is where most of it was bound. .
BTW anywhere that stuff gets wet and sits and rots it smells more like pig sh!^ than the real thing. Can’t get the smell out of your clothes or even footwear when you come in contact with it. Always wore those white paper disposable coveralls when I had to measure for a job in a soya bean processing plant.
Anything ever come of this?
http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/10535/new-headaches-for-distillers-grains-producers
Those rules would be one way feed prices won’t follow grain prices.
March 31 was the close of the comment period.
In April the FDA put up this:
Questions and Answers for Brewers/Distillers on the Original FSMA Proposed Rule for Preventive Controls for Animal Food
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm394991.htm
The new food safety law calls for FDA to create rules that help prevent food safety problems rather than relying primarily on reacting to problems.
So…’it’s not our fault we are making it more costly and more difficult, it’s Congress’s’…
Oh, I should also mention thanks to the new regs the price of slaughtering a goat/sheep (50 – 100#) just went from $30 to $60 OUCH!
Goats and sheep aren’t any worse than butchering a deer…
Unfortunately I faint at the sight of blood. Freaked my vet out since I generally finish what needs doing even if it takes hours and then keel over. (It is a royal pain.)
Also thanks to all the Mexicans in the area, home butchering is now illegal in the county and the USDA/FDA/County is going after people in my area with a vengeance.
Well, at least some things are still sane here in WV…
It appears that Gregory Meyer, writing in Financial Times, doesn’t know what “inflation” means.
Expect to see a bunch of conventiently timed “peer reviewed” papers explaining how the greater crop yields are actually a bad thing. They won’t allow the great unwashed to become complacent. Dontcha know?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/05/140507-crops-nutrition-climate-change-carbon-dioxide-science/
Apparently it’s rotten grain.
They are full of it as usual.
WUWT looked at a UC Davis a few years ago. (notice this is the same group I mentioned earlier who is pushing UN Agenda 21) As one commenter, Dave Springer said:
“The UC Davis study of wheat and mustard going only so far as nitrogen content of the leaves is borderline fraud if you ask me. This whole freaking AGW movement is replete with fraud. Heads need to roll. Lots of them from both academia and governments and media. Sorry to be so crude and angry but this stunt from UC Davis really chafed my hide after just a little bit of investigation of the prior art revealed its unscrupulous nature.”
He posted this goody at WUWT:
LIES, LIES and MORE LIES, I feel like a darn mushroom trying to make it out to the sun.
It’s more of the fantasy-land BS.
It’s been known for a very long time that plants will only store the nutrients they need. In other words, dump all the fertilizer you want on a field and it won’t increase the nutrition the plant will provide to something that eats that plant. But increase the capability of the plant to produce more (like adding CO2) and then the plant can ‘store’ more.
Who cares about grain when GRAVITY ITSELF is jeopardized by climate change?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2774948/Is-global-warming-weakening-Earth-s-gravity-Satellite-finds-variations-Antarctica-ice-melting-fastest.html
Not short before we will all go flying into space and suffocating!!!!!!11111
I normally try to just grit my teeth when I see an article that is more than normally foolish. That Daily Mail article, however, pegged my stupid-ometer. Seriously, it has so many elementary and fundamental errors that I considered swallowing my tongue as a quick means of relief (both psychological and physiological.) The only good thing I could say about it is that it was published on a little island far, far away.
I first saw something about that on Monday (a different article, I guess)…and started looking. One thing that I found, the same kind of gravity ‘wonkiness’ shows up around almost all active volcanic areas…
Was this one it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cipo4iwVU-g
Oh come on, it’s a laugh surely?
They’ve descovered that if you remove some mass from an area then the gravitational pull changes – wow! – like when I finish this can of soda it weighs less (and I weigh more)?
That’s amazing.
Crack scientists on tax dollars. And the pun of the first word is intended.