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« on: December 17, 2009, 04:26:34 PM »

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The United States Department of Agriculture will devote an additional $90 million over the next four years to climate change research, and will also join at least 21 other nations in a new international research cooperative focused on climate change and agriculture, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Wednesday in Copenhagen.

The US is bankrupt.  Where is the money coming from?

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Some agricultural representatives, like the American Farm Bureau, are adamantly opposed to cap-and-trade legislation making its way through Congress, claiming that it will result in higher fuel and fertilizer costs that will harm farmers and ranchers.

These fears are unwarranted, given that carbon caps will not apply to American agriculture, Mr. Vilsack said.


Farmers are concerned with higher fuel and fertilizer costs...and Vilsack responds about caps.  Apples and oranges misdirection?

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The agreement to cut emissions was endorsed in a memorandum of agreement signed in Copenhagen by Mr. Vilsack and Thomas P. Gallagher, chief executive officer of the Innovation Center for United States Diary and Diary Management, a trade group.

Does this memorandum need the approval of Congress?  Circumventing Congress?

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/agriculture-secretary-spotlights-climate/
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« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 04:31:02 PM »

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"Protecting the world's tropical rain forest is not a luxury, it is a necessity," Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack said, noting that deforestation accounts for 17% of humanity's emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The U.S. said it would contribute $1 billion through 2012.

How did the US jump from $90 million to $1 billion?  The US is broke, busted, bankrupt...

Our Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security is underfunded, and the Obamacrats are giving away billions?

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Behind China and the United States, Indonesia and Brazil are the third- and fourth-largest emitters because of wide-scale cutting and burning of forests, which releases carbon dioxide.

What are Indonesia and Brazil doing to reduce emissions?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-climate-forests17-2009dec17,0,2822790.story
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