Food prices are also artificially controlled through the futures market. Speculation in recent years has led to higher food prices as well. I'll see if I can remember where I saw the article on this...but it explained it pretty good. Climate change will also have an effect on food prices. As temps and weather patterns change...it effects food production. In some area, you may have not enough or too much rain, which can cause crops to fail....or temperature changes that swing far enough out of the norm to either cause failure or reduction in productivity. Both of these are pretty well known factors. The massive food shortages that have been going on in Northern Africa may have led to the recent uprisings...aka the straw that broke the camel's back.
-----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 11:00 To: cf-community Subject: Re: Paul Krugman Blames Egypt Crisis On Global Warming I have no opinion on Krugman, and don't care about the political debate re: Global Warming...but I do have a question about your last statement: Which, exactly, is the "made up" part? That climate changes would affect food production? That food production would affect prices? That food prices would affect the population? Those seem pretty logical arguments to me...so where's the fantasy? On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wish I was creative enough to make this kind of stuff up. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:334084 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
