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Crops Under Stress As Temperatures Fall
Our politicians haven't noticed
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13 Jun 09 - This is a few months old, but I still think it's
worthwhile.
(Excerpts) - "For the second time in little over a year, it looks as
though the world may be heading for a serious food crisis, thanks to our
old friend "climate change". In many parts of the world recently the
weather has not been too brilliant for farmers. After a fearsomely cold
winter, June brought heavy snowfall across large parts of western Canada
and the northern states of the American Midwest. In Manitoba last week,
it was -4ºC. North Dakota had its first June snow for 60 years.
There was midsummer snow not just in Norway and the Cairngorms, but even in Saudi Arabia. At least in the southern hemisphere it is winter, but snowfalls in New Zealand and Australia have been abnormal. There have been frosts in Brazil, elsewhere in South America they have had prolonged droughts, while in China they have had to cope with abnormal rain and freak hailstorms, which in one province killed 20 people.
The article speaks of conditions China, South America, Europe, and Ukraine.
There are obviously various reasons for this concern as to whether the world can continue to feed itself, but one of them is undoubtedly the downturn in world temperatures, which has brought more cold and snow since 2007 than we have known for decades.
It is now more than 200 years since the great astronomer William
Herschel observed a correlation between wheat prices and sunspots. When
the latter were few in number, he noted, the climate turned colder and
drier, crop yields fell and wheat prices rose. In the past two years,
sunspot activity has dropped to its lowest point for a century. One of
our biggest worries is that our politicians are so fixated on the idea
that CO2 is causing global warming that most of them haven't noticed
that the problem may be that the world is not warming but cooling, with
all the implications that has for whether we get enough to eat.
See entire article:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5525933/Crops-under-stress
-as-temperatures-fall.html
Thanks to Jeff Rense for this link