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A 'secret report', an unpublished assessment by an 'internationally-respected economist' at the World Bank (uncovered and reported by The Guardian) will give world leaders painful evidence that the Biofuels campaign (ethanol and other 'food-based' biofuels) are starving the world's poorest citizens...

The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil.Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush.

"It would put the World Bank in a political hot-spot with the White House," said one yesterday

If George Bush is embarrassed, then Al Gore should be mortified. This is his baby: global warming (sorry, climate change) is one of the driving forces behind the biofuel industry.

"Rising food prices have pushed 100m people worldwide below the poverty line, estimates the World Bank, and have sparked riots from Bangladesh to Egypt. Government ministers here have described higher food and fuel prices as "the first real economic crisis of globalisation"."

The first global economic crisis? Yes, but nuclear proliferation is the first, original globalization crisis I think; that and the threats of international terrorism. Oh, and let's not forget this big petri dish we live in is the ideal strata for some rogue biological epidemics. But that's future crisis.

President Bush pushed the biofuels agenda, but Al Gore wanted this program, even though he knew this would happen. From his May 2007 speech in Buenos Aries...

''Every potential solution much be handled carefully and the danger with biofuels is that extremely valuable forests will be destroyed unnecessarily,'' said Gore, whose global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth won an Academy Award this year. ``Another danger is that, if it is not pursued carefully, it will drive food prices up.''

Handled carefully, Al? With you waving the red flag every chance you get -- 'the sky is burning! the earth has a temperature!'-- it's no wonder you scared our government and other nations into fast tracking the biofuels industry. And, as usual, you put the rain forests ahead in your considerations; starving humans are almost an afterthought.

Misanthrope, dictionary, Al Gore's photo. He probably prays for some sort of global catastrophe that would wipe out us pesky humans, so his planet can get some relief (well, pray isn't exactly right; since Al Gore thinks there is no God. He probably prays to himself.)

In the future, if Al Gore ever says 'maybe we should be a 'little carefu'l about this or that then people should slam on the brakes immediately.

And, thanks, Big Al, for that tie-breaking vote you made in 1998 to save the ethanol tax exemption...here's his braggadocio speechifying...

"I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be."

That's an inconvenient truth.

Maybe we should think ahead before we embark on any projects Mr. Albert Gore suggests and supports. Because instead of 100 million starving people, we might have a nation of 300 million bankrupt people caught in the worst depression evah, based on Mr. Gore's over reactioned responses to unproven human-caused 'global warmalism'.

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h/t Karl at PW

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