Farmers fail to buy into Gore's scam - Salt Lake Tribune

...But running counter to this notion is the Utah Farm Bureau, with its 21,000 members, which insists that the nation must exploit its own oil and coal stocks for the foreseeable future. Because farm leaders aren't convinced there is such a phenomenon as global warming, they see no need to press for wide use of renewable fuels that in their minds may be decades away from being a cost-effective alternative to coal and oil.

"There are those in the media …who claim consensus -- 'that man's activities are the cause of global warming," wrote Farm Bureau CEO Randy Parker in the group's December newsletter. Parker said this claim is based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose members are "promoting parochial political agendas."

Time at state farm conventions is spent assailing global warming assertions -- leaving it up to individual farmers to develop alternative strategies on their own.