Prof downplays carbon tax’s farm impact

[SASKFARMER3]

Ok cut and paste

[Hamloc]

My first thought when I read this article in the Western Producer was that in downplaying the cost to farmers of a tax on carbon dioxide he didn't look at what would happen if they started to tax methane or nitrous oxide. It is only logical that once the tax on C02 is firmly entrenched that they will cast the net wider. One thing that is guaranteed about government is that it constantly wants to grow. Let's be realistic I think most farmers are forced to be efficient with any input due to constantly rising costs. Where will we realistically cut? The enviros want less meat eaten due to greenhouse emissions. Less fertilizer applied due to emissions. Cutting my greenhouse emissions by 30% isn't going to be achieved by putting solar power in my back yard. In my case I could cut maybe 5-10% but with constantly increasing costs I will need to continue to look for more land to farm which will increase my emissions. Chuck2 I am very interested how you feel you could cut your personal emissions by 30%? And please no cut and paste just a few thoughts on where you feel you can reduce your emissions by 30%.

[SASKFARMER3]

chuck will ride his bike and have solar panels on his acreage.

[6V53]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetland_methane_emissions

[macdon02]

Everyone realizes that since the internet was invented, the pulp mill outside my north window got mothballed thus saving x million trees from being cut down, further sequestering God knows only how much CO2, also creating a massive fire hazard in the next electrical storm? 1 more sink that never gets recognized

[FarmJunkie]

If u can’t convince us CO2 is the problem now it’s another gas. Just the cost to eat I guess. I’m guessing Chuck is part of the end hunger campaign which the last time I checked is tough to do with not enuf food around. This brain dead scheme to tax us for something we can’t fix and which they don’t wanna fix will not go away until people go real hungry. These are problems people bitch about when their belly’s are full.

[fjlip]

Ok cut and paste

Chucky so we are NOT THE FU*CKING problem or will EVER be the solution, IF there even is a problem. Canada can DISAPPEAR and SFA will change. I don't believe anything MAN does is a problem, neither is nitrous oxide emissions, as for methane, the 60 million bison never farted enough before white man to destroy the earth. Again Medieval warm period, how did man make that happen? The drought and record temperatures of the 30's , REBUT that please. Scientists that STATE a prediction/opinion means SHIT. None this can be proved. It's all a guess, computer models totally dependent on input data that can be tampered/adjusted in many ways. It is a religion, conspiracy by the left, nothing more. Goebbels would have been shocked of such world wide gullibility. A thinking reasoning person can not be fooled by such outlandish scare tactics. It is easier to accept a lie than be convinced it is a lie.

[binthere]

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/what-could-take-the-shine-off-of-solar-a-waste-problem/ar-BBQnCz3

[seldomseen]

Chucky your whole reason in life seems to be to come here and try to convince about 15 people that Global warming is real and a carbon tax is a great way to stop it. Why waste your time? When we see evidence we will start believing and until then what you say won't change anything.

There are lots of web sites where people like you can go and bash free market thinkers.

[hobbyfrmr]

If u can’t convince us CO2 is the problem now it’s another gas. Just the cost to eat I guess. I’m guessing Chuck is part of the end hunger campaign which the last time I checked is tough to do with not enuf food around. This brain dead scheme to tax us for something we can’t fix and which they don’t wanna fix will not go away until people go real hungry. These are problems people bitch about when their belly’s are full.

Exactly. Hmmmm....government needs a boogeyman to scare up money to operate. Something relatively obscure where the average citizen cannot be bothered to quantify it. They can not see it, can not smell it, cannot feel/touch it, can not hear it or taste it. Its not easily measured and the new generation of people have not loved long enough to realize that the weather changes, sometimes deathly cold, sometimes deathly windy, or deathly hot and/or cold. Sometimes record high temperatures in the day and record frost at night.
Its the weather, that it, no boogeyman, just the weather. Dress accordingly. Any day of the year in Saskatchewan if you are going to be outside always bring a jacket.