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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Geo.
date: 2007-01-09 18:20:50
subject: Re: ice island

From: "Geo." 

"Phil Payne"  wrote in
message news:45a39164$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> By definition, any change at all is bad for current life, since it has
> evolved to suit precisiely the current conditions.  The polar bears are a
> great example of a life form incredibly exposed to changes - but just as
> they do badly, other forms of life will do better.  Mass starvation is
> likely in Africa.

Pick any Ice Age, how do polar bears do? So that's good then to have an ice
age by your definition?


> Was it Mark who said the corn harvest was a record?
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/09/nfood109.xml
>
> "Shoppers were warned yesterday that the price of a loaf will soon rise
> past
> œ1.

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/aganswers/story.asp?storyID=3802  record
in 2003, broken by record in 2004

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/AgAnswers/story.asp?storyID=4293 broken
AGAIN in 2006


> Poor wheat harvests across the world have led to shortages and a sharp
> increase in the cost of flour for the second time in four months."

So buy ohio corn then. Oh that's right, Europeans consider it animal feed...

Geo.

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