Rice is the top staple food crop in Asia and the third largest global crop after corn and sugarcane. When rice production is in trouble, people pay attention. This year’s crop is suffering from flooding in Thailand, the sixth largest producer and second largest exporter. Plus excess rain in India, the second largest producer and largest exporter. Some are blaming climate change and demanding compensation from rich country emitters. This requires ignoring several factors including:
India is a fast-growing emitter of greenhouse gas emissions and unlike the U.S., EU, or China, has no plans for reducing them. This is still the third largest Indian rice crop in history, and the fourth largest level of ending stocks. India’...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
The Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri), also known as the Brooks Range marmot[3] or the Brower's marmot,[4] is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Once considered to be the same species as the hoary marmot, it is now known to be unique. Alaska marmots are found in the scree slopes of the...
