But I go back to my original premise, I object to the media reporting facts and then inserting a narrative. It would be like reporting that most serial killers are white every time a black man is killed in Philly.

I try to focus on complaining about what I feel like I should have a say in. I’d be happy to go on for a long time about the number of follies I believe most of Europe has taken, but I like to complain first about home. If we can’t fix things here – why rant about elsewhere?

The problem is food can’t be delivered (at any even remotely reasonable cost) to a lot of areas. In some cases it’s a lack of roads or means of transportation, in other cases it’s security issues with local warlords.

Of course, there’s also my favorite semi-related topic of idiotic, unfair agricultural subsidies here in the US. Nothing like artificially lowering the market price for food to cause problems for anyone else wanting to produce food elsewhere (while also letting massive amounts of food here go to waste with corn farmers that end up just burning off their whole crops and still get paid).

I’m not really that into the whole climate study bit (my side interest in science focuses more on evolutionary biology), but there’s a lot of interesting facts going both ways on the subject. Certain ice masses are increasing, some are decreasing, where we fit historically in climate cycles, etc. The problem is there’s been no comprehensive model on all the likely factors involved.

Andy, nice point. Too bad the press never takes that angle, instead focusing on temperatures when the data is less than conclusive on that point. The NASA GISS surface temperature restatement last year was particularly poignant. Ocean temperatures have been declining since 2003. At any rate, solar activity can’t be discounted as the main driver of global climate cycles… something humans have little control over.