IRRADIATING LETTUCE WILL SAVE LIVES, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
September 2, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—For years, our Center has been demanding irradiation for spinach, lettuce, and other high-risk produce—to kill the food-borne bacteria that present a last big preventable risk in our food supply. On August 22, the Food and Drug Administration granted our plea.
FDA permission to irradiate produce is the biggest step forward in U.S. food […]
RUSSIAN TANKS SIGNAL A “NEW ENERGY WAR”, BY DENNIS T. AVERY
August 25, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—“Russia’s adventure in Georgia has been described as a ‘warlet,’ a contained firing spree that wound up and down within a week. But to Europe’s energy markets, it was the equivalent of wide-scale carpet bombing,” writes Eric Reguly in Britain’s Global and Mail on August 15th. “Before the Georgian crisis, Europe seemed to be […]
PRINCE CHARLES PROMOTES WORLD HUNGER, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY AND ALEX AVERY
August 20, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Prince Charles of England has come out again against the genetically modified foods that are a key hope for producing the extra food needed by our richer, more populous world in the decades just ahead. He must know that, thanks to science, world grain production tripled during his lifetime, from about 700 million tons […]
CAN OBAMA END THE “AGE OF OIL?”, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
August 13, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Barack Obama says the U.S. must “end the age of oil in our time,” with “real results by the end of my first term in office.”
Duff Badgley, the Green candidate for governor in Washington State, goes only a bit further: he’d immediately convert the Boeing factory from building jetliners to making solar panels […]
CHINA RELEASES BIOTECH RICE, BARS BIOFUEL, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
July 30, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA— China says short world grain supplies have persuaded it to release biotech rice nationwide, ensuring the broadest-ever use of genetic engineering in a food crop. Chinese plant breeders say biotech crops are certain to produce higher yields, forestalling the need to finance costly rice imports for China’s billion-plus consumers.
To further protect its […]
“CONSENSUS” ON MAN-MADE WARMING IS SHATTERING, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
July 21, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—The “consensus” on man-made global warming may have received a mortal wound.
Physics & Society, The journal of the 46,000-member American Physical Society, just published “Climate Sensitivity Revisited,” by Viscount Christopher Monckton. Monckton is an avowed man-made warming skeptic, and former science advisor to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. (If you want to […]
ELECTION WON’T RESOLVE GAS PRICES OR GLOBAL WARIMING, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
July 14, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA–On most U.S. political issues, Barack Obama and John McCain take sharply different positions and represent real choice for the voters. On the biggest issue of all, however—$4 gas and global warming strategy—Obama and McCain seem to agree. They both think energy prices need to triple yet again to prevent man-made global warming.
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GREENS ADD FOOD PRODUCTION TO THEIR HIT LIST, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
July 7, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—British diesel is a self-inflicted $12 per gallon, biofuels have nearly doubled their food prices, and 40 percent of U.K electrical power will be shut down over the next six years. Now, the same Green alarmists, who warn of man-made warming while the planet cools, demand sharp reductions in Europe’s pesticide use. That will […]
DENNIS T. AVERY SPEECH TO METLIFE: “EXPECT MODERATE GLOBAL COOLING.”
June 24, 2008
The earth has entered a moderate 25-30 year cooling, which was predicted by the sunspots a decade ago, Dennis Avery recently told the MetLife Agricultural Investment Division at Lake Tahoe, NV. He said the cooling is now also endorsed by a recent shift in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. The cooling is likely to radically change […]
BIOTECH WHEAT TO EASE WORLD FOOD SHORTAGE, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY
June 24, 2008
CHURCHVILLE, VA—In the midst of the worst global grain shortage in decades, two lines of Australian biotech wheat have out-yielded current wheats by 20 percent—even under drought stress.
“Around the world, 35–50 percent of the wheat-growing areas are under drought risk. The number of drought-affected wheat growing areas is likely to increase with the effects […]
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