Climate change: political issue or new religion?
I’ll say at the outset that I believe we should do everything we reasonably can to avoid emitting carbon or any other pollutant into the atmosphere. I believe we should burn less fossil fuel. This...
View ArticleCow burps and climate change; Let It Be, Paul McCartney
By Mike Barnett I guess cow burps are big news. I’m seeing a lot more internet, newspaper and television coverage about gassy cows causing global warming. Before we get started, let’s get a couple of...
View ArticleFearless ag predictions for a new decade
By Mike Barnett There’s a lot of controversy about when the new decade begins. Perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself, but I believe it started on Jan. 1, 2010. If I wait until 2011 to make these fearless...
View ArticleThis is your grandfather’s global warming
Cold temperatures have gripped much of the Lone Star State this past week and in fact, much of the nation. A low of 8 degrees was recorded in Waco Saturday morning, where temperatures were below...
View ArticleCap and trade – all pain, no gain for Texas agriculture
By Gene Hall Okay, all of you get it by now. I’m not in favor of the cap and trade climate legislation that passed the U.S. House and stalled in the Senate, despite enthusiastic support from the Obama...
View ArticleFour activist movements are doomed to fail; Texas animal rights, agriculture...
By Mike Barnett I’ve been accused of preaching a lot of doom and gloom lately. Seems both Gene Hall and I have been detailing the negatives on how the climate changers, animal rightists, “industrial...
View ArticleClimate change to devastate agriculture? I don’t think so.
By Gene Hall We’ve all heard it. We’re only a few short years from climate change devastating agriculture. We’ll have food riots as soccer moms fight to the death over a can of beans. We used to call...
View ArticleSelling the crisis of climate change
We need to pay attention to climate change, which some sell as a crisis, but we should not forget the dangers of punitive and out-of-control regulation that will cripple our economy and ability to grow...
View ArticleClimate Change Regulation: Scarier than climate change?
By Gene Hall Only minutes after President Obama announced his new climate change regulatory plan, I was swamped with calls from the media asking for comment. Not knowing much about it then, I said that...
View ArticleCow burps: The rest of the story
By Gene Hall I’m a little miffed by a recent opinion vi […] The post Cow burps: The rest of the story appeared first on Texas Ag Talks.
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....