A prominent polling group released results of a nationwide poll that shows more and more Americans are coming to understand that climate change is the result of long-term planetary trends. Belief that humans are to blame for climate change are down significantly from one year ago.
I intended to write a post regarding the impact of deforestation on the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which I may still write about at another time, when I discovered these conflicting reports about the rainforest. The rainforest is a carbon sink which absorbs carbon dioxide(CO2). But as the tropical forest is cut, there is not only a loss of carbon sink, there are also carbon emissions.
Tags: Amazon rainforest, Climate Change, CO2, drought, Global Warming
As though sacrificing cheap electricity, comfortable homes, jobs, planes, trains, and automobiles was not enough, animal rights activists now want you to stop eating meat!
A few links worth reading as we approach 2010:
– Tom Bethell at the American Spectator reports on Wikipedia Meets Its Own Climategate. More evidence that what many call “science” is actually ideology.
Watch this video, Unstoppable Solar Cycles–The Real Story of Greenland, and then ask yourself two questions.
The US Secretary of Agriculture in President Obama’s administration, Tom Vilsak, recently commented on the economic impact on agriculture given one of the proposed Cap and Trade bills moving through Congress. Vilsak ignored in part his own department’s concerns on such legislation saying he does not believe it took all variables into consideration. He said “I don’t think it’s accurate to look at (computer) models as a predictor of precisely what’s going to happen the future. We’re talking about 20, 30, 40 years out.” Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Climate Change, climategate, tom vilsak, USDA
Climate change issues will have an impact on agriculture, but probably not from the source your are expecting. The major source of impact will be from climate change legislation and the United States Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
Tags: cap and trade, Climate Change, tom vilsak, USDA
Two stories highlight the failure of big government energy/environmental policy.
The Washington Times has an editorial on Greenbacks for green tech:
Tags: Department of Energy, tax credits
Following the Copenhagen Conference on global climate change the Senate looks at its options regarding climate change legislation. And the first thing that can be seen is that previously proposed legislation will fall flat. However, a few Senators have been busy and have submitted two new pieces of legislation for consideration. But will either gain traction without a Copenhagen treaty, with a skyrocketing deficit, an economy still in recession, and dwindling support for a cap and trade system?
Tags: Al Gore, Cantwell-Collins, Climate Change, CO2, Copenhagen Accord
The climate change debate, seen for all its weaknesses recently in Copenhagen, is about the “haves” and the “have-nots” and it is about who is supposed to be responsible for whom in the years ahead. We know the talks failed and no meaningful agreement was reached, but less obvious are the underlying reasons why: greed and double standards. To believe American media coverage, one might think Barack Obama saved the day by striking an accord that enabled everyone to leave Copenhagen able to say there had been “progress” on which to build. What is less emphasized is that only 5 out of 192 countries actually concurred.
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