Meanwhile, on Planet Earth, chicken prices are set to skyrocket over the next week. not because of the carbon tax but because of the effect carbon induced warming is currently having on the American corn crop. I'm sure the anti-CT lobby will be duly struck by the irony of the situation.

Australian consumers are about to pay a lot more for chicken, with at least one retailer saying prices will double from next week.

Chicken meat producers are bumping up their prices as the cost of feed grain soars because of drought in the United States.

The Australian landscape is dominated by seven large producers, but the top two - Baiada and Inghams - supply 70 per cent of the meat market.

Those two companies are vertically integrated, meaning they make their own feed and own the entire chain of production from chick hatchery to slaughterhouse, making it easier to pass on cost increases.

Chicken Meat Federation deputy director Vivien Kite says grain prices have increased significantly over the last three months on the back of forecasts of heavy drought impacts on the US corn crop.

"For example, we've seen wheat prices here increase by about $100 a tonne over the last three months and that represents an increase of around 30 per cent, perhaps even more," she said.

Upton Sinclair wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 9:17pm:




Of course droughts were unknown prior to this brand spanking new phenomenon. 

How about this from 1923

progressiveslol wrote on Jul 30^th, 2012 at 11:05pm:


Yes interesting that because you point at the deficiencies in the data that they continually serve up to support their "predictions" they scream denier and yet when you can point at history they are happy to deny or ignore the fact that it ever happened.
That's the beauty of GW predictions you can continually change your theory to fit the facts and then claim to call it "science". What a sweet deal.
The Australia wide Federation drought is an historical case in point and if the same circumstance happened now we would really be in the deep stuff. It lasted from 1895 to 1903. What is more it was followed by some of the heaviest and widespread rains on record.
Most states were also listed as in drought 1911-1916, 1918-1920, 1939-1945, 1958-1968, etc and excludes localised state droughts.

Alas progs we are constrained by such things and history and evidence and do not have the luxury of such a wide ranging and speculative brief. 


Murray River bed 1914

ONLY:38% THINK they are worse off

Who would have thought that it would be a number which correlates to the Jones / Bolt / Aherman ratings figures.

Armchair_Politician wrote on Aug 1^st, 2012 at 8:11am:



But the huge tax cuts for low paid has already taken effect. How far in front will they be before they see any negative impact if any do eventually show up.

People got an extra 10K tax free from the last pay period, for anyone on a wage of 30K this is a huge increase. Instead of paying tax on around $22K it goes down to around $11K or half of last years tax bill.