The administration's climate change proposal could impose new regulations and higher production costs on U.S. agricultural producers, disadvantage farmers in international markets and disrupt family farm and ranch operations. Climate change policy is controversial. Drastic action proposed by the administration is not justified at this time. Those farmers who aren't experts complain about it. It rains too much or too little, it's too cold or too hot or frost threatens the harvest.
Farmers are interested in the weather because our livelihoods depend on it.
Farmers are interested in climate change for the same reason. We are willing to consider valid,scientific evidence that human activities, including our own, may cause higher relativeconcentrations of greenhouse gases and higher global temperatures. Farmers are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and they are willing to do more, if good science says they should. Now I'm a farmer, not a scientist, but I've reviewed the science behind the administration's climate change policy, and I don't find it particularly compelling. I believe that based on current science, reasonable people can still disagree about whether the drastic action prescribed by the Kyoto agreement is justified.