{"id":5638,"date":"2011-04-08T21:26:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5638"},"modified":"2011-04-08T21:26:02","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T21:26:02","slug":"biofuels-youre-killing-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5638","title":{"rendered":"Biofuels? You&#8217;re Killing Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting little snippet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactpub.com.au\/aircargo\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=7569&amp;Itemid=60\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aircargo Asia-Pacific<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Biofuels &#8216;driving third world death rates higher&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0report in the UK&#8217;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 &#8220;for hundreds of years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen the Times article (and I can&#8217;t find it &#8211; but I haven&#8217;t tried that hard), so this was news to me. The author, <del>Matt Ridley<\/del> (link now dead), has a book recently published&#8230; I&#8217;m sure that this is purely coincidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting little snippet from Aircargo Asia-Pacific: Biofuels &#8216;driving third world death rates higher&#8217; A\u00a0report in the UK&#8217;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 &#8220;for hundreds of years&#8221;. He also said that studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,102,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-general-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}