AllGov - News - Climate Change Helps Growers of Cotton, Beans and Tomatoes

For instance, crops such as wheat, canola, flaxseed and sunflower are likely to experience higher chances of failure due to rising temperatures and fluctuations in rainfall. But farmers growing soybean, cotton, beans, and tomatoes may experience higher yields and need less water for these crops, due to higher amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

However, farmers may have a great struggle with weeds in the future. Experts forewarn of an increase in “invasive” weeds, which thrive off carbon monoxide, and a weakening of glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the United States, which doesn’t function well under higher CO2 conditions.

Ranchers, like farmers, will have to deal with a proliferation of pathogens and parasites, which will benefit from earlier springs and warmer winters.

Why don't we just grow all of our crops in Antarctica, where it's too cold for so many pathogens and parasites, and where the farmers wouldn't have to constantly worry about heat-induced kidney stones?

Canada should do more to defend oilsands: Poll

CALGARY — Half of Albertans are disappointed with the provincial and federal governments' defence of the oilsands in light of stinging criticism from environmentalists, according to results of a poll which also suggest nearly a third of Albertans aren't convinced global warming exists.

Guest editorial from Gore's home state: Even if you buy climate change, who will pay to fight it? | tennessean.com | The Tennessean

How will U.S. citizens respond to the Copenhagen accords? A recent poll by an independent organization found that 95 percent of Americans would pay $5 more a month to address climate change, but only 3 percent would pay $30 more a month to reduce CO2 emissions.

Here in Tennessee, customer support for Nashville Electric Service's Green Power Initiative has been dismally low, either because it raises the electric bill or because it does not seem important.  Nationwide, polls rank current concerns about CO2 emissions 20th of the top 20.

Guest editorial: Take closer look at Climategate | State Rep. Susan Lynn| The Tennessean

As alarming as this revelation is, it shouldn't be a surprise. The amount of money and ideological fervor surrounding climate change is enough to corrupt almost anyone. It's become a cause too big to fail. The 19th-century humorist Artemus Ward wrote, "It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so." For too long, alarmists have dismissed anything that threatened their belief in catastrophic global warming. This is dangerous. We need open hearings on Climategate and a moratorium on Mr. Stern's international efforts.

Experts? Don’t make me laugh - Press & Journal

Today, some climate-change experts continue a long tradition of authorities talking through their backsides. Climate change is a reality, yes, but expert opinion about it is often just fantasy to fit a particular agenda.

Each time an expert tells you the Scottish hills must be plastered with windfarms, think about what similar experts told us in the past. They were wrong then and they are wrong again now.