ICE Canada Weekly Outlook: Canola Treading Water

...because the crop is late in development, it remains extremely vulnerable to frost damage and certain downgrades to quality.

[In case you missed it]: Markey, Stulp meet with farmers, ranchers in Greeley | TheFencePost.com

“Many of my people think global warming is a hoax, and I'm a little skeptical myself. But it's going on all over the world, and it's not good to put all that carbon in the atmosphere.” [U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn] said.

Jay Lehr: Carbon dioxide isn't guilty

I will explain as simply as I can that carbon dioxide plays essentially no role in determining the temperature of the planet. Secondly, that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and that without the carbon dioxide we have on the planet we could not exist because vegetation would not exist. Hundreds of millions of years ago when the dinosaurs roamed the world we had five times more carbon than we have today.

My primary concern with climate control legislation is the disaster it will have for the less advantaged. If we are going to see poor people throughout the world, particularly in Africa, advance and improve their standard of living it can only be by supplying them inexpensive energy. But with climate control legislation our energy will increase in value and their chances of improving their plight is going to diminish.