Posted on 02/05/2014 1:59:43 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The Obama administration will announce the establishment of regional hubs focused on mitigating climate change on Wednesday.
The hubs are the first-ever regional centers that will focus solely on risk adaptation and climate change solutions at seven locations across the country.
"On the heels of passage of the farm bill, the administration will take executive action to help farmers, ranchers and rural communities combat climate change and adapt to extreme weather and other damage it causes," a White House official said in an email ahead of Wednesday's announcement.
Dubbed "climate hubs," the new centers will address issues like increasing risks of fires, invasive pests, devastating floods and crippling droughts, the official said. The centers will aim to translate science and research into usable information for farmers, ranchers and forest landowners to adjust their resource management.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will formally announce the new initiative during the daily White House press briefing on Wednesday. Vilsack mentioned his intention to first create the hubs last summer.
“For generations, America's farmers, ranchers and forest landowners have innovated and adapted to challenges," Vilsack said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Today, they face a new and more complex threat in the form of a changing and shifting climate, which impacts both our nation's forests and our farmers' bottom lines."
"USDA's Climate Hubs are part of our broad commitment to developing the next generation of climate solutions, so that our agricultural leaders have the modern technologies and tools they need to adapt and succeed in the face of a changing climate," Vilsack added.
The seven designated locations for the hubs will service the surrounding region with climate change information and outreach.
The new climate hubs will be established in Iowa North Carolina, New Hampshire, Colorado, Oklahoma, Oregon New Mexico.
There will also be three sub-hubs in Michigan, Puerto Rico and California.
That was a spot on description of the “facsimile of work” that occurs inside the delusional, administrative state. Characterizing the worker substitutes “by the number” was a nice touch. Perhaps we could clone them in a giant factory lab (the “Aldous Huxley Labor Enhancement Facility”) to drive down Federal labor costs. My only question is, “Where does Mr. Haney fit in?”
There’s a sweetly, twisted irony to government pencil pushers “addressing issues” like ...”invasive pests.”
Stalin was convinced to collectivize farms and use the scientific agricultural methods of the day (which were a dismal failure--so much so, the Russians seized the crops of the Kulaks in the Ukraine, and starved millions by doing so.)
History repeats itself, and Duh-1 has already usurped the power to take whatever from whomever.
There’s a sweetly, twisted irony to government pencil pushers “addressing issues” like ...”invasive pests.”
I just find it incredibly stupid of the nits in gummint who think they know the land better than those who have lived on it and farmed it for (often) 70 years or more.
It's arrogant, too, but that's what the whole honey boo boo, hicks from the sticks meme is about--showing the world how the fictional reality people are dumber than rocks out there in flyover country.
Ultimately, I think the agenda is to get farms to fail so the Ag giants can buy them up and then implement another phase of Agenda 21. That isn't paranoia if you live in flyover country, they have a plan to get us out of the boonies and into the cities where they think they can control us.
Your Freeper handle is a disturbing reminder of another “Joe”, Josip Stalin, and his vicious agricultural collectivization of Ukraine in 1932-33. The resulting famine, known as “Holomodor”, caused the deaths of as many as 10 million people. The complicity of the NY Times columnist, Walter Duranty is another factor in the tragedy. He wrote glowing dispatches as the Kulaks were annihilated. Ditto Mao and “The Great leap Forward.” Socialist central planners in collusion with a sychophantic media are no joke. So, when we consider Climate Hubs and the attending apparatciks, our laughter should be tempered with resolve.
Never keep all your grain in one bin, so to speak. The Russians took the seed set aside for the following season, which made the starvation even worse.
Now, they'd just sieze the crop and anything GMO that was stored for seed wouldn't produce.
One big difference...No 2nd Amendment for Kulaks. Lock and Load.
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