Ripe for the picking

Here at Skeptic's Corner we are always looking for new features to highlight the problems associated with global warmi...uh climate change. Probably the least known impact of the climate crisis is the tremendous inequity in many segments of our society when it comes to redistribution of....... uh taxin......uh funding yeah funding.

Now today we read about this terrible inequity being perpetrated against a very important segment of our society-the farmer. Yes I know we had that ah so engaging commentary yesterday from Farmer Steve over at WUWT, but it is obvious that farmers are not being properly bribe.....uh, compensated for their support......uh sacrifice.

Here is yet another story, by experts no less, of but a small example of the trials they face:

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture could further help mitigate the impact of climate change, policy experts are arguing, calling for the sector to be put at the centre of ongoing UN climate talks.

If climate-change mitigation and adaptation goals are to be met, international climate talks must include agriculture, argued the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in a policy paper published last month.......

....Agriculture is "the missing word" in the UN climate talks, said Gerald Nelson, (wonder if he is related to Willie?)a senior research fellow at IFPRI, adding that while the agricultural sector emits 14% of total greenhouse gas emissions, it also has a "unique role" in absorbing carbon emitted from other sectors.

Therefore, "any funds set aside in the UN talks to help adaptation need to include agriculture. We need to think about new crop varities, new physical infrastructure to make farming more resilient as well as new institutions both domestically and internationally that support resilience," said Nelson.

According to IFPRI, agriculture can mitigate emissions through "changes in agricultural technologies and management practices," and new crop mixes that include more perennial plants or have deeper root systems. Such plants allow more carbon to be stored in the soil. ....

.....As the total share of emissions from agriculture is larger in the developing world, "cost-effective ways must be found to help poor people" to both mitigate and adapt to climate change, underlined Nelson. IFPRI also calls for more investment and funding to support agricultural research, rural infrastructure, and access to markets for small farmers in developing countries.....

"....European agriculture will feel the full force of climate change," said EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel after the EU executive had adopted its White Paper on adapting to climate change earlier this month. ...

So as can be plainly seen, farmers need payola.......uh help. As has been clearly demonstrated in recent studies global warm......climate change is going to have a tremendous impact on the farmer, so who would not support this money grab.....uh funding? Would you not only allow our farmers to be ravaged by the impending climate crisis (yeah that's the ticket) but deprive them of the funds they so desperately need to protect themselves from their 14% contribution to these ravages!

Have you no heart!

Support our farmers!

Where's Willie?