Our critique
should make this clear that behind the headlines of global warmist claims is
often statistical jugglery and cherry picking data. We got more than 1,500
page-load hits for this post with many reputed Agricultural Universities around
the world and scientists among the visitors.
At the timing of writing the post, we wondered, “What’s the agenda behind such
rogue studies?” We now discovered it was designed to lay the
justification of a $600 million research study to evolve “climate ready rice”!
This is how the study defines its mission:
“Cutting-edge research aimed at discovering new rice genes and
deciphering their functions will feed into accelerated efforts to break the
yield barrier in rice and to breed new generations of “climate-ready” rice with
flooding tolerance and other traits that are essential for adapting production
in the face of climate change. The initiative is expected to boost supplies
enough to reduce anticipated increases in rice prices by an average of at least
6.5% by 2020, and at least 13% by 2035.”
An initiative of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR) and led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its
partners, GRiSP was launched in Hanoi today at the 3rd International Rice
Congress. The new global initiative will lead scientists to embark on the most
comprehensive attempt ever to deploy rice’s genetic diversity.
Cutting-edge research aimed at discovering new rice genes and deciphering their
functions will feed into accelerated efforts to break the yield barrier in rice
and to breed new generations of “climate-ready” rice with flooding tolerance
and other traits that are essential for adapting production in the face of
climate change. The initiative is expected to boost supplies enough to reduce
anticipated increases in rice prices by an average of at least 6.5% by 2020,
and at least 13% by 2035.
Those who are in the field will well remember all the hullabaloo with the
launch of Roundup Wheat and the subsequent damage such a package caused round
the world. Now we have to face the consequence of a “Climate Ready Rice”. Among
its features is increased vulnerability to flooding. What happens if Asia faces
drought? Starvation if such a magic bullet replaces local strains fails and
producing Frankenstein food, if it succeeds. And they have the gumption to call
this circus (research) preserving bio-diversity! What can we say but God help
us!
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