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August 27, 2010

The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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Published on August 27, 2010 04:34

The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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Published on August 27, 2010 04:34

The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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Published on August 27, 2010 04:34

The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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Published on August 27, 2010 04:34

The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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Published on August 27, 2010 04:34

The Coming Food Crisis: Global food security is stretched to the breaking point, and Russia's fires and Pakistan's floods are making a bad situation worse. - Podesta, Caldwell: "Lasting gains in agricultural productivity will require ... action to confro

Prices of basic foodstuffs like buckwheat and flour have soared in Russia over the past month as the effects of its worst ever drought hit supplies, statistics showed Wednesday….


Most alarmingly, the price of Russian staple buckwheat — enjoyed by generations for breakfast or as an accompaniment to meat — rose a very sharp 8.6 percent in the space of the week.

So Seed Daily reported Wednesday.  Last year, Lester Brown and Scientific American asked "Could Food Shortages Bring Down...

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August 26, 2010

KPMG review finds IPCC chief Pachauri innocent of financial misdealings or conflict of interest, UK Telegraph apologizes for smearing him - Monbiot: "A scrupulously honest man has been much maligned"

"No evidence was found that indicated personal fiduciary benefits accruing to Pachauri from his various advisory roles that would have led to a conflict of interest."

That's the finding of a detailed report by KPMG on the finances of Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

A great many U.S. reporters and bloggers owe an apology to Pachauri (see "N.Y. Times and Elisabeth Rosenthal Face Credibility Siege over Unbalanced Climate Coverage").

Let's see if...

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Published on August 26, 2010 12:09

Justice Department asks Supreme Court to vacate environmental victory against greenhouse gas emitters

smoke-stack Another day, another in a long line of mesmerizingly message-muddying moves by the Obama administration on the environment.

As with the decision to embrace offshore drilling, we'll no doubt eventually learn that this decision — which lies somewhere on the scale between between unproductive and counter-productive — was made without serious input from those in the administration who represent science or the environment.

I had applauded the original decision (see Federal court says states may...

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Published on August 26, 2010 12:01

Energy and Global Warming News for August 26th: California approves first new U.S. large solar thermal plant; Electricity from the air?

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California Approves First New U.S. Thermal Solar Plant

California regulators on Wednesday approved a license for the nation's first large-scale solar thermal power plant in two decades.

The licensing of the 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project after a two-and-a-half-year environmental review comes as several other big solar farms are set to receive approval from the California Energ y Commission in the next month.

"I hope this is the first of many more large-scale solar projects we will...

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Published on August 26, 2010 11:17

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