By Erik Stokstad– Re-Blogged From Science
Extreme heat impairs photosynthesis, depressing yields of crops like rice.
Rice genetically engineered to resist heat waves can also produce up to 20% more grain
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Why Modern Famine Predictions Failed !
By Jim Steele, – Re-Blogged From WUWT
What’s Natural column, published in the Pacifica Tribune
When I graduated high school in 1968 there were rampant predictions of environmental collapse and eco-catastrophe theories flourished. The highly influential Stanford scientist Dr Paul Ehrlich dominated the doomsday media stating, “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born.” Predicting global famine in 1970 this PhD wrote, “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
Victims if 1876 Famine in India
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #386
The Week That Was: Nov 16, 2019, Brought to You by www.SEPP.org
By Ken Haapala, President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “’Theories, ideas are wonderful, but to me, they become established when passing tests,’ he continued.
“’Theories of course, any bright physicist can make up theories. They could have nothing to do with reality.
“’You discover which theories are close to reality by comparing to experiments…’” – Jim Peebles, 2019 Nobel co-Laureate in physics.
Number of the Week: $143 billion over 10 years
After Climategate: Ten years ago, a scandal in climate science broke. Hackers took over a thousand emails from Britain’s University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit and revealed them in a series of releases. These provided the first solid evidence that the climate establishment was trying to suppress physical evidence that nature was not responding to increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) as the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed and the climate modelers predicted / projected. Many of the lead authors of the IPCC Assessment Reports were involved in this suppression of physical evidence, which is contrary to the principles of the scientific method.
The Left’s War on Science
By John Stossel – Re-Blogged From WUWT
Please watch this opinion piece video by John Stossel about being ‘Against’ Science.
Biologist Creating Super Plants To Combat Climate Change
By Eric Worrall – Re-Blogged From WUWT
This is the only climate technology which really frightens me.
This scientist thinks she has the key to curb climate change: super plants
Adam Popescu in La Jolla, California
Tue 16 Apr 2019 20.00 AESTDr Joanne Chory hopes that genetic modifications to enhance plants’ natural carbon-fixing traits could play a key role – but knows that time is short, for her and the planet Continue reading
Sidelined Because She Rejects Radical Green Agendas?
By Paul Driessen – Re-Blogged From WUWT
Fish & Wildlife Service director nominee joins hundreds of others in confirmation limbo
Aurelia Skipwith has a BS in biology from Howard University, a Master’s in molecular genetics from Purdue and a law degree from Kentucky. She has worked as a molecular analyst and sustainable agriculture partnership manager. She was also co-founder and general counsel for AVC Global, a Washington, DC-based agricultural supply chain development company that helps small farmers link up with multinational buyers and with agronomy, business, financial and other service providers.
For two years, she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Interior Department, where she performed her duties so well that last October President Trump nominated her to become the next Director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) at Interior. She is an ideal candidate for the post.
Life-Saving Golden Rice Finally Gets to Poor Farmers Despite Environmentalist Opposition
By Ronald Bailey – Re-Blogged From Reason
Bangladesh announces that it will allow its farmers to plant this genetically improved crop
Golden Rice which has been genetically engineered to have higher levels of the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene is finally about be to approved for planting by poor farmers in Bangladesh. This a big step toward improving the health of some of the poorest people on the planet. Vitamin A deficiency causes blindness in between 250,000 and 500,000 children each year, half of whom die within 12 months, according to the World Health Organization. A study by German researchers in 2014 estimated that activist opposition to the deployment of Golden Rice has resulted in the loss of 1.4 million life-years in just India alone.
Environmentalist ideologues have fought fiercely for two decades to prevent this crop from being offered to poor farmers in developing countries. Among other things, they hired thugs to rip up test fields of the grain at the International Rice Research Institute in the Phillippines.
Anti-GMO Attitudes Study Nature 2019
By Joel O’Bryan, PhD – Re-Blogged From WUWT
From NPR on-line, there is this news item:
“People Strongly Against GMOs Had Shakier Understanding Of Food Science, Study Finds”
January 26, 2019 7:00 AM ET
“People who most intensely oppose genetically modified food think they know a lot about food science, but actually know the least, according to a peer-reviewed paper published in January in the journal Nature Human Behaviour.”
Twelve Invisible Eco-Catastrophes and Threats of Doom That are Actually Fake
By Patrick Moore, PhD – Re-Blogged From WUWT
Some time ago it struck me that the majority of alleged environmental catastrophes and threats are invisible or very remote, thus making it virtually impossible for the average person to validate them through observation. Observations, along with replications of those observations, are the very foundation of the scientific method. Seeing is believing, and seeing the same result again and again under similar circumstances reinforces the belief. Is it possible that activist groups and the media choose to cite supposed catastrophes and threats that are invisible, very remote or both because the majority of people cannot verify them in person and therefore must rely on the activists, the media, and other third parties to tell them the truth? At the conclusion of this essay, the reader may judge. Here’s a list of some of the alleged invisible catastrophes and threats of doom, beginning with one of the former.
Luddite Eco-Imperialists Claim to be Virtuous
By Paul Dreissen – Re-Blogged From WUWT
Poor families in impoverished countries face formidable foes: an absence of electricity, roads and other infrastructure; corrupt, kleptocratic governments; nonexistent property rights to secure loans; well-financed eco-imperialists whose policies perpetuate poverty, malnutrition and disease.
Now they face even harder struggles, as a coalition of well-financed malcontents, agitators and pressure groups has formed a social-political movement called “AgroEcology.” Coalition members despise fossil fuels, chemical pesticides and fertilizers, biotechnology, corporations, capitalism, and even farm machinery and all facets of modern agriculture. It’s anti-GMO organic food activism on steroids, promoting all the latest in PC fads and terminology: “food sovereignty,” the “right to subsistence farming by indigenous people” and “the right of peoples to culturally appropriate food,” to cite a few.
