West Central Alberta Coldest, wettest edge | I didn't intend to start a global warming debate, or to discuss the qualification of Tim Ball. All of the skeptics get torn apart for not towing the line, regardless of qualifications or facts. Just trying to offer some evidence that we have had a relatively stable climate for our lives relative to historical records. Any debates on global warming turn nasty real fast, just like religion, there is no safe middle ground. Better not to go there.
I'll assume that you are not just throwing the other side of the argument out there for balance. But, I don't think it is wise of farmers to take the side of the environmentalist/anti business , anti industry crowd. Farmers by their very nature are already doing more to look after the environment than any fundamentalist green. And those same greens look at farms as just as bad as all the other industries. They would love nothing more than to take away fertilizer, chemicals, GM crops, cows and their methane, etc etc. Basically anything that is not "organic and natural", or livestock, or requires burning diesel fuel, or using land for anything except endangered birds and flowers. Not sure why any farmer would want to cozy up to that crowd. We already have the most at stake from any climate change, and the most interest in conserving our own soil and water, without needing big green and big government intervention.
Of course, we all know that the greens don't eat farm raised food, they use photosynthesis for energy, never drive or fly, they walk and swim around the world to all of their global environmental summits, live in recycled cardboard houses with no polluting electricity , heat or air conditioning, where they forfiet all of the modern conveniences, and are always very pleased to have an up close and personal encounter with a wolf or grizzly bear that they have transplanted out to our environment.
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Global warming and weather?
