This is an interesting little snippet from Aircargo Asia-Pacific:
Biofuels ‘driving third world death rates higher’
A report in the UK’s Times newspaper by author Matt Ridley says an Australian government official has claimed that if the world stopped emitting CO2 today, global temperatures would not drop “for hundreds of years”.
He also said that studies in the Journal of Coastal Research indicate that while sea levels are rising (presumably as a result of global warming), the rate is slowing.
He added that biofuel crops may have caused 192,000 additional deaths in 2010 due to their disproportionate impact on malnutrition rates in third world countries.
I hadn’t seen the Times article (and I can’t find it – but I haven’t tried that hard), so this was news to me. The author, Matt Ridley (link now dead), has a book recently published… I’m sure that this is purely coincidental.