Bloomberg News: ‘Chili Peppers Are Losing Their Heat as the World Gets Warmer’ – ‘Climate Change’ is making the peppers ‘less fiery’ – Also Coffee ‘growing more bitter’ & coconuts more bland’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-13/chili-peppers-are-losing-their-heat-as-the-world-gets-warmer By Bernadette TohDecember 13, 2024 at 6:00 AM EST For three generations, Ken Koh’s family has bought a specific variety of chili peppers from the same Southeast Asian supplier to make its bestselling sauces. A team of four chops, blends and cooks the peppers at a modest three-story factory in Singapore. Inside, a sign […]
False, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Farm Disasters
False, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Farm Disasters By H. Sterling Burnett The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reposted an article by Inside Climate News which asserts that American farmers have suffered from climate change over the past eight years and, as a result, have become less skeptical that the world is in the […]
The Cows Are Alright! Study finds cows help farms capture more carbon in soil – ‘Cattle help improve the biodiversity of the land’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/28/cows-help-farms-capture-more-carbon-in-soil-study-shows Via UK Guardian: Research also reveals that a mixture of arable crops and cattle helps improve the biodiversity of the land Cows may belch methane into the atmosphere at alarming rates, but new data shows they may play an important role in renewing farm soil. Research by the Soil Association Exchange shows that farms with a […]
The Cows are Alright! Princeton Physicist rejects climate-methane scare: Methane’s ‘contribution to the warming is only about one-tenth that of CO2’
Methane, much like CO2, has been relentlessly demonized by climate alarmists as a greenhouse gas that will lead us right towards a climate catastrophe. The problem with this, however, according to Dr. William Happer, is that methane’s “… contribution to the warming is only… pic.twitter.com/6ZJuCO6rp4 — CO2 Coalition (@CO2Coalition) December 7, 2024 Methane, much like […]
There’s something rotten with Denmark’s animal flatulence tax
https://www.cfact.org/2024/12/02/theres-something-rotten-with-denmarks-animal-flatulence-tax/ By Gabriella Hoffman “From 2030, farmers in Denmark will have to pay a tax for their animals’ farts. This is because cow, sheep and pig burps and farts produce a greenhouse gas called methane, which contribute to global warming and climate change. The “flatulence tax” means farmers will have to pay 300 kroner (£34) […]
Farmers turn into climate activists to keep IRA ‘green’ subsidies flowing to farms?! Farmers’ lobbies have ‘softened’ climate skepticism ‘as funding for climate-focused programs has flowed to farmers…based on carbon storing-farming practices’
Inside Climate News: The most powerful agricultural lobby group, the American Farm Bureau Federation, shifted its position on climate change, influencing conversations in farm country. The group had long denied the scientific consensus that human activity is driving greenhouse gas emissions, but has since softened its denial as funding for climate-focused programs has flowed to farmers and as carbon markets, based on carbon storing-farming practices, have promised the potential of revenue to its members.
So far, farms and farmers have received roughly $7 billion to help them implement “climate smart” farming practices under the Biden administration’s signature climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. Another $13 billion or so is still on the way, though Congress’ efforts to pass a Farm Bill, which would direct those funds in coming years, are stalled. Republican versions of the legislation call for removing the requirement that the funding support climate-specific practices.
The USDA is investing another $3 billion in climate-focused agricultural practices under the agency’s Partnership for Climate Smart Commodities.
The War On Nitrous Oxide: UK’s ‘Net Zero fertilizer tax’ commeth for the food supply
Why The War On Nitrous Oxide? By Paul Homewood As I reported the other day, farmers are up in arms about the new tax on imported fertilisers, which will result from the carbon border adjustment mechanism, an import tax on carbon-intensive products: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/09/budget-fertiliser-tax-raise-food-prices-warn-farmers/ Although this new tax could potentially impact all goods from countries such […]
Watch: Bill Gates outlines how he is ‘changing cows’ to fight climate change – Pushes ‘artificial meat’ as a way ‘you can make beef without the cow’
“We need to change cows.” Bill Gates outlines all the different ways he is “changing cows” in order to save the planet from catastrophic methane emissions, including lab-grown meat and methane-reducing vaccines. An original edit by Wide Awake Media. pic.twitter.com/j96zVwL8N5 — Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) November 18, 2024 Bill Gates: “Cows are about 5% […]
WATCH: After Demanding Meat Tax, Activists at UN COP29 Climate Summit Gobble Up Meat & Avoid Vegan Offerings
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/14/watch-after-demanding-meat-tax-activists-at-un-cop29-climate-conference-wont-go-near-vegan-buffet-n2181994 By Rusty Weiss Climate nerds at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change (COP29) Conference being held in Baku, Azerbaijan, spent the early part of their panel discussions talking about how they could tax meat in an effort to force people away from the apparently ozone-depleting food group.Willem Branten, public affairs and policy officer at the True Animal […]
Flashback 2009: ‘Don’t Blame Cows for Climate Change’ – University of Calif authority on farming refutes UN claims – Slams Paul McCartney & promoters of ‘meatless Mondays’
UC Davis Associate Professor and Air Quality Specialist Frank Mitloehner: Mitloehner traces much of the public confusion over meat and milk’s role in climate change to two sentences in a 2006 United Nations report, titled “Livestock’s Long Shadow.” Printed only in the report’s executive summary and nowhere in the body of the report, the sentences read: “The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents). This is a higher share than transport.” These statements are not accurate, yet their wide distribution through news media have put us on the wrong path toward solutions, Mitloehner says. “We certainly can reduce our greenhouse-gas production, but not by consuming less meat and milk. …
Mitloehner particularly objects to the U.N.’s statement that livestock account for more greenhouse gases than transportation, when there is no generally accepted global breakdown of gas production by industrial sector.
See: 2006 UN report: Cow ’emissions’ more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars
…”This lopsided ‘analysis’ is a classical apples-and-oranges analogy that truly confused the issue,” Mitloehner said.