Archive for 2008
SATELLITE INDICATES 23-YEAR GLOBAL COOLING
Monday, May 5th, 2008BY DENNIS T. AVERY
CHURCHVILLE VA—Now it’s not just the sunspots that predict a 23-year global cooling. The new Jason oceanographic satellite shows that 2007 was a “cool” La Nina year—but Jason also says something more important is at work: The much larger and more persistent Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) has turned into its cool phase, […]
Updated:New Beef Eco-Report
Monday, April 21st, 2008New Beef Eco-Report: Pound-for-pound, beef produced with grains and growth hormones produces 40% less greenhouse gas emissions and saves two-thirds more land for nature compared to organic grass-fed beef.
Hundreds More Scientists Have Found the 1,500-Year Climate Cycle
Monday, March 3rd, 2008Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008:
The following list includes more than 400 additional qualified scientists, with their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals, which reveal evidence of the moderate 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. Together with a previous list released by Hudson on Sept. 12, 2007, this brings the total […]
Global Temperatures Have Dropped: Did Sunspots Predict It?
Saturday, March 1st, 2008By Dennis T. Avery, Hudson Institute
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Three of the world’s major climate monitors have announced that the earth’s temperatures dropped over the last 12 months—by enough to virtually offset the entire “unprecedented warming” of the last century. This comes after nine years of no warming, and a net warming since 1940 of just 0.2 degrees.
Equally […]
IFIC video - “What’s for Lunch?
Thursday, February 28th, 2008This short YouTube friendly video addresses consumer concerns about food choice from the International Food Information Council Foundation(IFIC). This humorous and entertaining look at how food is grown and produced is aimed at those who are uncertain about the differences between organic, biotechnology and conventional food production methods. Narrated by an improv comic, and featuring interviews […]
“What’s for Lunch?” Video from IFIC Addresses Consumer Concerns About School Lunch Choices
Thursday, February 28th, 2008International Food Information Council Foundation posts humorous school lunch video in popular You Tube space.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 19, 2008 — Introducing “What’s for Lunch?,” a short YouTube friendly video that addresses consumer concerns about food choice from the International Food Information Council Foundation(IFIC). This humorous and entertaining look at how food is grown and […]
Will Nuclear and Biotech Save Us From Global Warming?
Friday, January 11th, 2008By: Dennis T. Avery
Nuclear power and genetically engineered rice are set to help rescue the world from global warming. This isn’t really what anti-tech activists had in mind when they launched the campaign against fossil fuels, hoping to restrict our current lifestyles.
The British government has just announced that it will encourage a new generation of […]
New Year’s Goals For The Ag Community Focused On A Strong, Prosperous 2008
Monday, January 7th, 2008
by Dan Murphy
1/7/2008 1:50:00 PM
As 2008 begins a critical year for all of agriculture, AgNetwork.com reviews the goals and priorities from a select group of advocacy groups and trade associations. Some of those are entirely predictable – such as lobbying for the most favorable version of the farm bill. Others center on policy, marketing […]
New Year’s Resolution: Organic Farming Can’t Feed The World
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008By: Dennis T. Avery and Alex A. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—We’re already sacrificing our energy sources to “save the planet.” Now the Greens want us to give up food as well. Last summer, a University of Michigan study announced that “organic farming can feed the world.”
“My hope is that we can finally put a nail in the […]