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UPDATE: June 25, 2008, 11:06 pm

Massive amounts of crop land have been destroyed by the flooding. In Iowa more, than 3.3 million acres of corn and soybean fields have been washed out. With 16% of the state’s farmland under water, it is safe to estimate the total cost of the damage will at least match the cost of the flooding in 1993, fifteen to twenty-billion dollars. Check out more at U.S. and World Report. Part of that financial damage will affect all of us, with global flooding diminishing crop returns earlier this year, our domestic harvest was more important than ever. In 2007 the food inflation rate was at 2.1%. It is now 6.7%. For a great explanation of this, read this article by Jennifer Openshaw with Market Watch.

June 25, 2008, 2:43 am (Original Post)

The worst of it seems to be over, but now the Midwest is left to wait weeks for the water to recede in many

places. What started with some of the worst tornadoes on record, has become a natural disaster of incredible proportions. Tens of thousands were evacuated from Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri and Indiana, and

over eleven-million people have been affected by the extreme weather, says FEMA. Please check out the Breitbart article for more information.

“Although no single weather event can be attributed to global warming, it’s critical to understand that a warming climate is supplying the very conditions that fuel these kinds of weather events: it is a law of physics that warmer air is able to carry more water.” – Larry Schweiger, President & CEO, National Wildlife Federation, On Global Warming and the Catastrophic Flooding in the Central U.S.