clipped from orangepunch.freedomblogging.com

Global warming skeptic Dennis T. Avery from the Hudson Institute in DC also is the director for the Center for Global Food Issues. What an interesting convergence of roles, eh?

He’s got an pointed observation about the global warming alarmism, and the consequences that actually can be measured.

“A global food crisis looms, as crops are diverted to biofuels.  Food prices have soared 83 percent in three years. Thousands of U.S. farmers are pulling their land out of the government’s biggest conservation program to plant millions of acres back to crops and pasture. U.S. environmentalists warn that ‘years of conservation progress’ will be lost as America’s 35-million-acre Conservation Reserve dwindles, especially in the important bird-nesting areas of the northern Great Plains. “

What’s that got to do with global warming alarmism, you might ask. Avery explains:

“All of this because of the rush to biofuels - the first, big, panicked mistake of the global warming scare.