There's Doom And Gloom

Civilization could crash in 15 years- NASA study

"A new study sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the prospect that global industrial civilisation could collapse in coming decades due to unsustainable resource exploitation and increasingly unequal wealth distribution.

Noting that warnings of 'collapse' are often seen to be fringe or controversial, the study attempts to make sense of compelling historical data showing that "the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history." Cases of severe civilisational disruption due to "precipitous collapse - often lasting centuries - have been quite common."

And, obviously, none of them proved too accurate, did they?

Crop yields damaged earlier than expected by climate change: study

"Corn, wheat and rice yields will start to suffer from climate change in 2030, according to a study led by the UK's University of Leeds based on climate models and research on crop productivity.

“Crop yields will be negatively affected by climate change much earlier than expected,” Andy Challinor, a Leeds professor and lead author of the study, was cited as saying in a statement on the university's website.

Without adaptation by farmers, losses in aggregate production of wheat, rice and corn are predicted with local climate warming of 2 degrees Celsius, the researchers wrote in the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change."

And then there's this: Major new potash discovery south of Regina

"Rio Tinto calls the find a Tier 1 discovery, meaning the find is one of the top tier potash deposits in the world.

"It's large," North Atlantic Potash CEO David Waugh said.

He said if a three-million ton per year mine was built on the site, the deposit would last for more than 100 years."

Brad Wall Rocks!!

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Listening right now to Brad Wall talk about the BHP Billiton's Potash Corporation hostile takeover bid. He's making a great case and he's GREAT speaker.

BRAD WALL FOR PRIME MINISTER!!!!

I'll see if I can find an audiofile so anyone who missed it can listen to it at their leisure, although I suspect there isn't a set of Saskatchewan ears, and a lot of Canadian ears from other provinces, that haven't been listening.

PS: His speech writer should get a medal of honour.

PS: This could be a negotiating tactic designed to bring BHP Billiton's expectations in line. We'll see.

Here it is:

Brad Wall says Canada should reject BHP's bid