6/5/13, "U.S. Tailors Regional Climate Plans to Help Farmers Beat the Heat," Bloomberg, Bjerga
"A U.S. effort that will tailor climate-change relief for farmers by
region may help build support for efforts to cut carbon emissions tied
to global warming, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. Vilsack will introduce U.S. Department of Agriculture programs today to
combat the effects of climate volatility. As a Corn Belt drought, the
worst since the 1930s, is replaced by the wettest Iowa spring on record,
farmers need resources and research to make better choices on planting
and dealing with threats from the weather, he said in previewing a
speech today at the National Press Club in Washington.“You’re going to see a lot more stress” on crops and livestock from climate change, he said yesterday in an interview. “You’re going to see crops produced in one area no longer able to be produced, unless we mitigate and adapt now.”
A USDA report in February concluded average temperatures in the main U.S. growing regions may rise 4 degrees to 6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees to 3 degrees Celsius) in the next four decades, outpacing nationwide trends.
The department will create seven regions, each responsible for developing specific ways to mitigate climate issues. The regions will be coordinated within the USDA extension system, which works with universities to support agriculture.
The USDA also will calculate the carbon content of farmland to determine which management practices boost soil quality and limit greenhouse-gas emissions, Vilsack said. Such a step will help farmers see the short-term benefits of planting cover crops, such as alfalfa, that help slow erosion while producing less profit than corn or soybeans, he said.
In the future, knowing about the land also may help develop support for carbon-trading markets, an approach backed by President Barack Obama that died in Congress in 2009.
“If carbon markets become viable, more viable than they have been, we’ll have a baseline of information,” he said. “We’ll have a gauge by which producers can measure and calculate whether a particular conservation practice will be beneficial.”" chart, USDA, via Junk Science
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2/21/13, “IPCC Head Pachauri Acknowledges Global Warming Standstill,” The Australian, Graham Lloyd
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1/18/13, UK Met Office says no warming since 1998, Der Spiegel (chart below, UK Met Office)
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12/11/12, "Open letter to UN Secretary-General: Current scientific knowledge does not substantiate Ban Ki-Moon assertions on weather and climate, say 125-plus scientists," Special to the Financial Post
"The NOAA “State of the Climate in 2008” report asserted that 15 years or more without any statistically-significant warming would indicate a discrepancy between observation and prediction. Sixteen years without warming have therefore now proven that the models are wrong by their creators’ own criterion."...(2nd parag. fr. end of letter)
"Global warming that has not occurred cannot have caused the extreme weather of the past few years." ...
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.Der Spiegel (chart above, UK Met Office)
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Chart, Univ. of Reading, UK, from The Economist
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6/4/12, "Climate change stunner: USA leads world in CO2 cuts since 2006," Vancouver Observer, Saxifrage
"Not only that, but as my top chart shows, US CO2 emissions are falling even faster than what President Obama pledged in the global Copenhagen Accord."...
Here is the biggest shocker of all: the average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964 --over half a century ago. …Coal is the number two source of CO2 for Americans. Today the average American burns an amount similar to what they did in 1955, and even less than they did in the 1940s. …It is exactly America’s historical role of biggest and dirtiest that makes their sharp decline in CO2 pollution so noteworthy and potentially game changing at the global level.”...
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Goldman Sachs created the so-called carbon market:
7/02/09, "The Great American Bubble Machine: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression," Rolling Stone, by Matt Taibbi
"A groundbreaking new commodities bubble,
called cap and trade.
The new carbon-credit market is a virtual repeat of the
commodities-market casino that's been kind to Goldman,
except it has one delicious new wrinkle:
If the plan goes forward as expected, the rise in prices
will be government-mandated. Goldman won't even have to rig the game.
It will be rigged in advance."...
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8/16/12, “AP IMPACT: CO2 emissions in US drop to 20-year low,” AP, Kevin Begos
“In a surprising turnaround, the amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere in the U.S. has fallen dramatically to its lowest level in 20 years."...
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News of US CO2 plunge has been described as:
- “Surprising,“
- “little noticed,“
- “dramatic,“
- “stunner,“
- “most people are surprised to learn,“
- “quiet but tremendous progress,”
- “major long term implications,”
- “game changing,”
- “shocker,”
- “huge contrast to the forecast.”
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