Tis The Season – Again
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
Given the arrival of summer, we can get back to the pursuits of the season…barbecues, family outings, vacations and pretending that the world is warming up because of man’s influence and greedy pursuits of living. Here in Nevada last week we had the chance to enjoy a publicity stunt of Kid’s vs Global Warming petitioning the Nevada Environmental Commission, seeking a rule-making process to reduce the amount of global warming gases being sent into Nevada’s atmosphere.
Having just came through the winter and spring we’ve been through, perhaps a little global warming would be a good thing, but that would not be a crisis the politically-inspired scientists working on the process would be able to collect funding to “research”.
Thankfully, the state’s Environmental Commission, after listening to all the available input, made a unanimous decision to not go forward with developing a rule-making process to save the world from Nevada-caused carbon dioxide emissions and other green house gases.
If we would have known about this report coming out so soon to the deliberations, we could have been able to have declared success and started planning a party to celebrate. Without doing anything more than we already are doing the greenhouse gas problem is being solved…The United States Department of Agriculture Chief Economist’s Climate Change Program Office released the report, June 22nd showing that agriculture accounted for approximately 6 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, which is slightly less than the department’s previous (1990-2005) inventory report.
The 2008 inventory data show that major agricultural emission sources are nitrous oxide from cropped and grazing land soils, which were 43 percent of emissions in 2008 and enteric methane from livestock (28 percent of emissions in 2008). Sequestration of carbon in cropland soils offset about 21 percent of cropland emissions in 2008. Direct energy emissions in agriculture accounted for less than 1.3 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in 2008.
No wonder the winters and spring-time temperatures are making it difficult to cause people to believe that there is really a problem which requires us to destroy our economy in order to save the world. For the most part we’re getting down to having “believers” made up of only those who depend on government money for their science or want government authority to force their agenda on everyone else.
Given the arrival of summer, we can get back to the pursuits of the season…barbecues, family outings, vacations and pretending that the world is warming up because of man’s influence and greedy pursuits of living. Here in Nevada last week we had the chance to enjoy a publicity stunt of Kid’s vs Global Warming petitioning the Nevada Environmental Commission, seeking a rule-making process to reduce the amount of global warming gases being sent into Nevada’s atmosphere.
Having just came through the winter and spring we’ve been through, perhaps a little global warming would be a good thing, but that would not be a crisis the politically-inspired scientists working on the process would be able to collect funding to “research”.
Thankfully, the state’s Environmental Commission, after listening to all the available input, made a unanimous decision to not go forward with developing a rule-making process to save the world from Nevada-caused carbon dioxide emissions and other green house gases.
If we would have known about this report coming out so soon to the deliberations, we could have been able to have declared success and started planning a party to celebrate. Without doing anything more than we already are doing the greenhouse gas problem is being solved…The United States Department of Agriculture Chief Economist’s Climate Change Program Office released the report, June 22nd showing that agriculture accounted for approximately 6 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, which is slightly less than the department’s previous (1990-2005) inventory report.
The 2008 inventory data show that major agricultural emission sources are nitrous oxide from cropped and grazing land soils, which were 43 percent of emissions in 2008 and enteric methane from livestock (28 percent of emissions in 2008). Sequestration of carbon in cropland soils offset about 21 percent of cropland emissions in 2008. Direct energy emissions in agriculture accounted for less than 1.3 percent of total U.S. energy consumption in 2008.
No wonder the winters and spring-time temperatures are making it difficult to cause people to believe that there is really a problem which requires us to destroy our economy in order to save the world. For the most part we’re getting down to having “believers” made up of only those who depend on government money for their science or want government authority to force their agenda on everyone else.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 6/23/2011 9:08 AM 
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Global Warming Government Regulations Agriculture
Categories: Global Warming
Tags: Global Warming Government Regulations Agriculture
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