Alastair McDonald wrote: > > But, we are seeing the bill.... It's been estimated that > > this year we will see about 20% of the corn crop used for ethanol > > production. And things are just beginning to take off. What will > > happen if we go to 40 or 50% of corn to ethanol? > > Yes, but that bill is caused by Peak Oil, not global warming. If the > price of corn rises so high that it cant be used for ethanol, then we will > know that the climate has changed.
Global warming is the result of energy poicies which have encouraged excessive comsumption of fossil fuels. When Peak Oil arrives, we will be faced with a choice of which energy system(s) to adopt such that civilization as we know it can continue. If humanity makes the wrong choice, then we will all pay... > > But, growth is good, according to Neocon economics.... > > And according to Adam Smith, but his ideas and those of the neocons > are over 200 years out of date. > > BTW Eric have you see Bob Grmbine's maps recently at > http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/nh.html ? If you run the > animation the ice edge is retreating from Svalbard rather > than advancing as it should at this time of year! Cool!! No, HOT!! As in warmer water where none appeared before. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
