Posted on 09/11/2013 8:35:51 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
California farmers feel more threatened by climate policy than they do by climate change, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.
The study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, found that the greatest climate risk Yolo County farmers believe they face in the future is not drought, water shortages, or temperature changes, but government regulations.
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Why shouldn’t they? The federal government has shown that it cares nothing about the farmers’ water rights, cutting off water supplies after decades of promising to keep it flowing to the farmers’ fields, bankrupting the farmers in one season.
well duh
Policies that can put you out of business in a year or a tenth of a degree temp change over a century, jeesh which is a bigger problem??
Farmers know “climate” better than anyone, and that’s why nearly all believe global warming is complete BS
Tyranny in a suit and with a clipboard.
The study, published in the journal Global Environmental Change, found that the greatest climate risk Yolo County farmers believe they face in the future is not drought, water shortages, or temperature changes, but government regulations.
If the government is in charge of the water, they ought to be worried.
So, the gummint shutoff of the water to protect small fish in SF Bay didn’t happen?
It’s the same for every industry. A stroke of a pen and you’re rich, another and you’re poor. This isn’t a free market economy anymore and hasn’t been for decades.
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