Monday, September 13, 2010

Capital FM Kenya: Kenya could triple its maize yield
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 13 - The World Agro Forestry Centre says Kenya can increase its maize yield by up to 200 percent irrespective of the impacts of climate change.
Analysis: Helplessness fuels Kansas anger over EPA - CNBC
TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas legislators opposed to regulating greenhouse gases are doubly upset because the federal government is forcing the state into limiting emissions, and they don't yet see a good strategy for preventing it.

Some members of a legislative committee reviewing new rules from the federal Environmental Protection Agency argued last week that regulating greenhouse gases will hurt the economy. The committee had a hearing to allow regional EPA officials to explain the changes but used the meeting to vent their frustrations.
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Some legislators, including Knox, are openly skeptical of science linking climate change to manmade greenhouse gases to climate change. And utilities have long had far more influence with legislators than environmentalists.

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