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Yearly Archives: 2010
WHEN SHEEP DIDN’T HAVE WOOL, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
Today, farmers are accused of “tampering with Nature.” But farmers have been doing such tampering for thousands of years. We had to, for survival. As one dramatic example, wild sheep didn’t have wool. Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep still don’t! Nature gave sheep a long, coarse hair coat instead. In the beginning, the wool was just a short insulating undercoat with fuzzy fibers too short to make thread. For the first 4,000 years we herded sheep, it was only for their meat. Continue reading
MUDDY RIVERS: DON’T BLAME FARMERS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
When people hear that I’m an advocate of high yield farming to feed the world and protect the environment, assertions of farm runoff into the rivers are raised to support charges against modern farming methods. Urban dwellers, even some of my rural neighbors, tell me their concerns about large-scale farming ruining our rivers “because the rivers are muddy.” They worry about even more soil erosion as farmers gear up to double food production over the next 40 years to feed a peak population of 9 billion people. Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, CGFI, farmers, farming, farming methods, Food, no-till, rural, soil erosion
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BIG GREEN BUS HAS FLAT TIRES, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
If the Big Green Bus hasn’t actually stalled, it’s at least got a couple of newly-flattened tires. And the suddenly-Republican U.S. Congress’s opposition to energy taxes is only part of it. Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, CGFI, climate, Climate Change, energy, energy tax, environment, EPA, temperature
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WHY ARE REPUBLICANS CLIMATE SKEPTICS?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
The New York Times marvels editorially that none of the Republicans running for the Senate accept the “scientific consensus that humans are largely responsible for global warming.” Maybe that’s because the Republicans come from more rural (Red) states that haven’t had any warming—man-made or otherwise. Continue reading
CITY FARMING—PIGS IN THE SKY?, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
Green visionary, Dixon Despommier, of Columbia University has proposed growing our food in city high-rises, to cut food transport energy use. The bad news is that city farming would be impossibly expensive—as it always has been. The good news: the high-rise farms will never be built. Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, CGFI, city farming, columbia, corn yields, despommier, environment, farming, farms, Food, fruit, grow lights, vegetables
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Pesticide Activism: Fifty Years of Panic and Propaganda
This report details the long history of toxic journalism, the new and historical facts and science the media ignore in propping up “the grand narrative”[1], and why this problem is likely to get worse. That is why this issue needs to be addressed as society grapples with the growing human health and welfare challenges in a more crowded and resource-limited world of the 21st century. Continue reading
Posted in Latest News, Materials and Publications, Resources
Tagged atrazine, pesticides, Silent Spring
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM SWEDISH TEMPERATURE RECORDS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
The ten coldest winter-spring temperatures out of the last 500 in Stockholm, Sweden, were almost all during the Little Ice Age. No surprise there. The coldest was 1569, followed by 1573. Continue reading
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Tagged Avery, celsius, CGFI, climate, degrees, environment, environmental, ice age, national climate data center, temperature
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UN MILLENNIUM GOALS FLUNK REALITY CHECK, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
On the10th birthday of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, officials are lamenting that the world has made little progress in meeting them. No one should be surprised.
Goal # 1 is to cut greenhouse emissions by 50 percent. The UN says this clearly within reach if there’s the “political will.” “Economic death-wish” would be a better term. The UN wants us to give up 85 percent of our energy system, and use expensive, erratic solar and wind that would do little to reduce greenhouse emissions. Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Avery, CGFI, crops, energy, farming, la nina, organic, power, solar, UN, united nations, wind power
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BIOTECH: TO SURVIVE THE MEGA-DROUGHTS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
When, O Lord, will the public turn its back on the ill-founded “concerns” of the Green movement that misinformed us about DDT, salmon extinction, deformed frogs, man-made global warming, and a host of other fake “calamities”? When will we support more high-yield farming research to meet redoubled world food needs in 2050? Especially since the alternative would be to plow down more wild species’ habitat to plant additional low-yield crops. Continue reading
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Tagged crops, DDT, drought, droughts, farming, farms, Green, irrigation, salt levels
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Tyrone Hayes—A Frog in His Throat
Dr. Tyrone Hayes of UC Berkeley—in his personal quest to demonize the herbicide atrazine just as a previous generation successfully demonized Alar—gave an encore performance before the EPA’s fourth Scientific Advisory Panel on this subject on Wednesday. Continue reading