Sunday, October 04, 2009

[Why pay for futile attempts at cooling when you like it warm and it's already cooling?]
I love hot weather. But now climate experts are suggesting that there may be one or two decades of cold weather before the heat arrives. Great, so I get to suffer the adverse economic consequences of futilely trying to stave off global warming, only to drop dead right before it warms up. And I live in Boston.
PoliGazette » John Fund explains why Obama’s approval ratings have dropped
Fund told Morrissey that he believes that Obama’s major problem is that he doesn’t seem to understand that the public elected him “to fix the economy.” Last year’s elections weren’t about cap and trade, health care reform or the 2016 Olympics, but about jobs, about economic growth.
Rockefeller: Cap and Trade May Wait Until Next Year - WVNS-TV - WVNSTV.com
CHARLESTON -- Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said he sees little chance of the U.S. Senate passing cap-and-trade legislation by the end of the year because health care is eating up much of the chamber’s time at the moment.
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I don’t think Congress will pay any attention to it this year because of health care, because of other stuff,” he said. “Health care has sucked all the oxygen out of everything.”
Corn growers cite economics, want subsidies in climate bill | DesMoinesRegister.com
Offering carbon credits to farmers will not be enough to get corn growers to support a climate bill. They also want subsidies to help cover the upfront costs of going to no-till or other farming practices that would qualify for credits.
[Problems with no-till corn] - Prairie Farmer
The problem all along for no-till corn has been the cool, wet conditions in the spring, which can stunt the crop's early-season growth and development. Heavy crop residue makes for a cooler, wetter seedbed, and this poses a big problem for corn, which is planted earlier than soybeans.

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