Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead.
A series of emails obtained by the Guardian between staff at the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a USDA unit that oversees farmers’ land conservation, show that the incoming Trump administration has had a stark impact on the language used by some federal employees around climate change.
A missive from Bianca Moebius-Clune, director of soil health, lists terms that should be avoided by staff and those that should replace them. “Climate change” is in the “avoid” category, to be replaced by “weather extremes”. Instead of “climate change adaption”, staff are asked to use “resilience to weather extremes”.
The primary cause of human-driven climate change is also targeted, with the term “reduce greenhouse gases” blacklisted in favor of “build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency”. Meanwhile, “sequester carbon” is ruled out and replaced by “build soil organic matter”.
The Department of Agriculture employing the language of …agriculture. Do tell.
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A rose by any other name is still parasites trying to tell farmers how to farm. If they’re so good at it, they should try it.
The “Emoji Movie” is more of a documentary film than Al Gore’s make-believe sequel (prequel to global disaster ? *snicker*).
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4768678/Al-Gore-s-Inconvenient-Truth-sequel-box-office-woes.html
Good! It was high time that the snake oil fraud language was removed. Hopefully Gore’s sequel goes bust financially.
Hopefully Gore’s sequel goes bust financially.
This might help sink it:
https://downtrend.com/71superb/global-temperatures-are-cooler-now-than-when-al-gore-won-his-nobel-prize
“Climate-change” was perfectly understandable English language until it was co-opted for political purposes, just like the word “gay”. We’ll never recover these words for their plain-language meaning but I’d be happy to see them expunged from scientific discourse since they’ve been rendered useless for scientific purposes.
Geez! This must have Ontario’s farm organizations squeezing their knees together.
They probably would do fine. Farming isn’t that difficult – there are far harder businesses to make margin at out there.
Tell me why Zimbabwe, the bread basket of Africa, is now importing food?
Venezuela, where anything will grow has millions starving and mal nourished people?
Politics.
Meanwhile Hong Kong with barely an acre of arable land is fabulously wealthy.
I don’t see how that has anything to do with the point is was making that the concept that farmers are hard done byand that making a living at it is especially difficult in the western world.
The only real requirement that seems to exist in North America seems to be that you be born on the land you will farm. I have known very very few producers over the past 35 years who weren’t. It seems the only thing that drives them out of the business is exceptionally bad management practices.
Concept = conceit
Farming in a fully functional society with access to capital, equipment, seed and fertilizer is relatively easy. Families have been farming in Canada and the US for generations.
Try doing it in Venezuela, where you have no capital or loans. Where there are no spare parts for your farm machinery because there is no foreign exchange to buy them from the US, China, India or Brazil. Where seeds are not available, fertilizer isn’t available, and even if you do produce a crop, the government price controls do not even cover your costs. That is, if the idiot bus driver Maduro doesn’t just seize everything and declare you an enemy of the people.
Or Zimbabwe. Run off (or murder) the white farmers who ran the huge farms and divide them up amongst of ignorant guerillas and socialist political hacks. What happens to productivity?
You are correct. It is “politics,” but politics covers a lot. Getting your property tax cut because your buddy is a county commissioner is politics. The Holodomor was politics. The “Great Leap Forward” was politics. The Holocaust was politics. North Korea’s juche policy is politics. Venezuelan Chavismo is politics. Zimbabwe is a tribal fight disguised as politics.
USDA and many other federal agencies all jumped on the AGW bandwagon in about 2007 or 2008. This was done because MONEY was available for AGW. The bureaucracy lapped it up knowing full well that although it had little or nothing to do with their core missions it added jobs and money and was politically correct so it wouldn’t be attacked as a waste of money.
This is how bureaucrats think and act.
Exactly!
Sounds like the USDA may actually be getting some real farmers in change again, instead of a bunch of leftie econuts.
Whatever? But one word needs to be added.
“Increasing” should precede “weather extremes”.