Re: Holdren: Ice age

On Oct 9, 11:52 am, jose el fontanero <josefsop...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Holdren: Ice age will kill 1 billion

Obama's science chief blames
man-made carbon emissions

By Jerome R. Corsi

White House science czar John Holdren has predicted 1 billion people
will die in "carbon-dioxide induced famines" in a coming new ice age
by 2020.

As WND previously reported, Holdren predicted in a 1971 textbook co-
authored with Malthusian population alarmist Paul Ehrlich that global
over-population was heading the Earth to a new ice age unless the
government mandated urgent measures to control population, including
the possibility of involuntary birth control measures such as forced
sterilization.

Holdren's prediction that 1 billion people would die from a global
cooling "eco-disaster" was announced in Ehrlich's 1986 book "The
Machinery of Nature."

Holdren based his prediction on a theory that human emissions of
carbon dioxide would produce a climate catastrophe in which global
warming would cause global cooling with a consequent reduction in
agricultural production resulting in widespread disaster.

On pages 273-274 of "The Machinery of Nature," Ehrlich explained
Holdren's theory by arguing "some localities will probably become
colder as the warmer atmosphere drives the climactic engine faster,
causing streams of frigid air to move more rapidly away from the
poles." (Emphasis in original text.)

"Global Warming or Global Governance? What the media refuse to tell
you about so-called climate change"

The movement of the frigid air from the poles caused by global warming
"could reduce agricultural yields for decades or more – a sure recipe
for disaster in an increasingly overpopulated world," Ehrlich wrote.

(Story continues below)

Holdren and Ehrlich had previously articulated the theory in their
1973 textbook "Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions" in which they
argued on page 198 that the main effect of carbon-dioxide-induced
global warming "might be to speed up circulation patterns and to bring
arctic cold farther south and Antarctic cold farther north."

In their 1970s textbook, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources and
Environment," last revised in 1977, Holdren together with co-authors
Paul and Anne Ehrlich argued on page 687 that "a man-made warming
trend might cancel out a natural cooling trend."

Equivocating between whether human-caused global warming or global
cooling were the more likely future trend, the authors concluded that,
either way, any rapid climate change would produce an eco-disaster
because any rapid change in climate, regardless whether toward global
warming or global cooling, would produce hazardous effects upon
agriculture and food production.

Still, worrying that human-caused climate changes either toward global
warming or global cooling would be rapid, the authors concluded "there
is no leeway in the world situation to absorb a significant climate-
induced drop in production over broad areas of the world."

"Whatever adjustments in crop characteristics and cultivation patterns
might eventually be made in response to rapid climate change would
come too late to save hundreds of millions from famine," the authors
argued on page 688. (Emphasis in original text.)

On page 377, the authors returned to their constant theme: The only
way to control a foreseen increasing global food crisis was to control
population.

Noting that a 1967 presidential science advisory commission had
concluded that the solution to the "world food problem" likely after
1985 "demands that programs of population control be initiated
now." (Emphasis in original text.)

Commenting on the conclusions of the 1967 presidential advisory
report, the authors wrote, "We emphatically agreed then, and the
situation is even more urgent today."

Biofuels and world hunger

Examining Holdren's extensive publications, WND does not find him
balancing his concern that anthropomorphic-induced climate change will
cause world hunger with a concern that the production of biofuels to
reduce carbon emissions could itself be a source of global famine.

WND has reported that, ironically, a major cause of world famine has
not been climate change but the increased cost of basic food products
including corn caused by the production of biofuels such as ethanol.

A controversial report released earlier this month by the
Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, documented that the increasing
demand for corn to produce ethanol contributed between 10 to 15
percent to an overall 5.1 percent increase in the price of food from
April 2007 to April 2008, as measured by the Consumer Price Index.

"Producing ethanol for use in motor fuels increases the demand for
corn, which ultimately raises the prices that consumers pay for a wide
variety of foods at grocery stores, ranging from corn syrup sweeteners
found in soft drinks to meat, dairy and poultry products," the CBO
concluded.

An International Monetary Fund assessment was even more pessimistic.

"With respect to food, biofuels policies in some advanced economies
are spilling over to the price of key food items, particularly corn
and soybeans," John Lipsky, first managing director of the IMF, told
the Council on Foreign Relations May 8, 2008. "IMF estimates suggest
increased demand for biofuels accounts for 70 percent of the increase
in corn prices and 40 percent of the increase in soybean prices."

In an article entitled "How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor," published
in the Council on Foreign Relations Foreign Affairs magazine for May/
June 2007, economists C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer concluded
that if the prices of staple foods increase because of the demand for
biofuels, "the number of food-insecure people in the world would rise
by over 16 million for every percentage point in the real prices of
staple foods."

Runge and Senauer projected that as many as 1.2 billion people could
be chronically hungry by 2025, with 600 million more than previously
projected, with the increase being due to the production of biofuels.

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WorldNetDaily

Face it. Holdren is not even close to your mediocre mental level.
Maybe you need to go back to Doctor Suess.

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