Divergence

Agree. Parallels with the Irish Famine are important. A lesser known fact about the 1840s potato blight is that it hit seven countries in all, not just Ireland – France, Alsace Loraine (Prussia), Flanders (Holland), Belgium, Sweden and the Scottish Highlands.

The combined total of recorded deaths across the six other countries totalled 80,000-100,000. Yet, a million people died in Ireland alone. Two million people were forced to migrate; yet, except for the Scottish Highlands, none of the other countries hit by the blight lost significant population through emigration.

The catastrophic effect of the blight on Ireland was a direct outcome of the laissez-faire zealotry that dominated Westminster at the time. Where the five non-British countries implemented immediate crisis management by closing the ports and cancelling all export food contracts, the Whigs of Westminster believed that even charitable famine relief was too much interference with the purity of the market. Also, personal correspondence from various British politicians revealed they saw the famine as a means of solving the ‘Irish problem’ (i.e. kill them off).

There is a lot more that could be said about the parallels between Ireland of 1845 and the global free trade zealotry of the world today, and its accompanying disdain for people as anything other than just another market. As the storm clouds of climate change and global free-trade madness slowly gather, the world is a famine waiting to happen.

Hi Brian of Buderim, I totally agree with you that nobody comes here because of the commenters who are encouraged. It has been a long time since I bothered to comment although I did for a while a few years ago. I check out the site occasionally now for a laugh and a cry at the insanity on show and I saw your comment.

Graham Young must be happy with the results of his insistence on the right for everyone to be a bigot and a climate change denier without expecting them to take responsibility for how they use this right. So the bigots and the bullies just drown out everyone else while they complain about having no voice. lol

I doubt it will get any better here. I won't be back for a while even for a chuckle. Good luck. :)

Another hypocrite Kilarney bleating about the Irish famine as another example of wicked capitalistic zealotry.

Have shot at the death toll from the zealotry of Lysenkoism, the closest idea to AGW from the past, Kilarney.

Another one, mollydukes, from the slush fund which is the ABC presenting no argument, no evidence or reason or logic, merely a sanctimonious demand for censorship for those who don't agree with her/him/transgendered.

This is so typical of the left in this nation; they hide behind, indeed demand public funding for their self-indulgent views and heap vitriol on those who contradict those indulgences. What little bullyboys/girls/transgendered they are.

Take Ms Tranter's little piece here; based on a discredited, rebutted and corrupt UN and its offshoot, the IPCC's latest chicken little report.

Ms Tranter ignores the fact agriculture production has increased for nearly every crop since 1970:

http://www.geohive.com/charts/ag_crops.aspx

Ms Tranter ignores the 2010 IAC audit of the IPCC which found the science of the IPCC was substandard, unreliable and unscientific. The IAC made recommendations for the methodology of the IPCC but none of these recommendations have been implemented. Yet with every prediction by the IPCC either failed or problematic Ms Tranter still accepts the IPCC's ever worsening predictions for the future when what they have predicted for the present is not happening.

AGW is a lie yet we are meant to believe related dire predictions from an ideologically motivated person like Ms Tranter; and because some reasonable people treat such articles as the rubbish they are we get castigated by ABC drones for not toeing the party line.

The ABC should be closed immediately then it will be either sites like this or street corners for the likes of the 2 interlopers currently here.

As a lawyer and human rights activist, Kellie has a great affinity to the United Nations. I wonder how much of her income might depend on that body, the most corrupt organisation ever to soil the planet.
What ever the case, she has an incredibly strong interest in promoting any garbage the UN puts it's name to.

Then we have the scientists. Have any of them ever got anything right? I have to wonder when they talk global warming, or our inability to produce more food.

In my district alone I could show you tens of thousands of acres of once productive farm land now doing nothing more useful than graze a few horses, cattle or kangaroos. Again with a trip to the Mary valley, or the Cherwell river area I could show you thousands more. The home of the best mandarins ever now has not a single orchard in production.

Why is this? Because it's just worth the effort growing stuff. When you get paid more on the dole, than a 70 hour week working the land can earn, only stupid old men will do it. Kids are too smart to fall for it. As the old farts die off we are left with empty farms, useless lawyers, & scientists who could not find GO on a monopoly board.

We could double our food output next year, just by reopening some cultivation. We could quadruple it within a few years, with some dams for irrigation, & less damn fool environmental flows, where such flows never existed previously. Yep there were destructive floods, but no more water in the rivers a few months later.

If we want to do it, just make it worth doing. Pay enough for the food, to make growing it a viable business, & make farm labour more attractive than welfare, & you will feed the multitudes, no problem

Australia is already importing over 70 percent of it's fish and that has nothing to do with CO2 or acid or emissions, never has, never will.

It's no use tying to twist cause of already devastated ocean food supply into being caused by AGW - CO2 emissions and need for an ETS.