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Swedish Farmers Have Doubts About Climatologists and Climate Change
cold fjord (826450) writes with this excerpt from ScienceNordic: Researchers the world over almost unanimously agree that our climate is changing ... But many farmers – at least Swedish ones – have experienced mild winters and shifting weather before and are hesitant about trusting the scientists. The researcher who discovered the degree of scepticism among farmers was surprised by her findings. Therese Asplund ... was initially looking into how agricultural magazines covered climate change. Asplund found after studying ten years of issues of the two agricultural sector periodicals ATL and Land Lantbruk that they present climate change as scientifically confirmed, a real problem. But her research took an unexpected direction when she started interviewing farmers in focus groups about climate issues. Asplund had prepared a long list of questions about how the farmers live with the threat of climate change and what they plan to do to cope with the subsequent climate challenges. The conversations took a different course: "They explained that they didn't quite believe in climate changes," she says. "Or at least that these are not triggered by human activities."
(Original paper here.)
Might as well be more concerned about politicians and corporations that deny the lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
He have about as much evidence as mmgw does.
patiently watching reality always trumps agenda driven hysteria
meanwhile the IPCC has been furiously back pedaling on its more dire predictions since 2000
The ends justify the means. The tired 97% of climate scientists agree...has been thoroughly debunked. People are seeing this for the scam that it really is.
If you doubt it, ask yourself why the solution to climate change looks like a tax increase. The have-nots want to whine about how the rich get richer and yet when the rich put forth solutions that will make them more money, the masses swallow. Al Gore gets a cut of every carbon transaction at the expense of the poor. California passed cap and trade. Twice a year, rate payers get a check for $30 - $40 for their "profit" in the cap and trade scheme. But rates just went up 25%; top tier 32 cents a kwh to 44 cents a kwh. This is the solution to climate change?
The largest producer of carbon is transportation. If that is so, why do I travel from red light to red light and then idle at the light? Escondido implemented a safety program where if you did the speed limit, you made it all the way through town on green lights. That was 5 miles of non stop travel. They dropped the program when revenue plummeted; people weren't speeding or running red lights. Most of the lights in San Diego are set so that if you do 10 to 15 mph over the speed limit, you will get a long string of green lights. Fast enough to catch speeders but not so fast as to create a safety issue. It's the money stupid. If the government really thought climate change was a threat, we would develop technology that would allow the traffic lights to communicate with each other and sense where the majority of traffic was located. Instead, I'll get a red light as I approach and there are no cars waiting. So, I sit there idling.
In the early 70's we were running out of gas. We were just months away from pumping that last barrel from the ground and gas prices soared. We were reduced to gas rationing. 10 years later, we were all driving gas guzzling Suburbans and Humvees.
In the early 70s, the alarm was that we were on the cusp of the next ice age. We were about to encounter global cooling and plans were introduced on ways to warm tjhe planet. Some solutions were, cover the ice with soot. Burn the forests, raise the carbon foot print.
People in general are stupid and gullible. Being in tech doesn't seem to correlate with critical thinking. If climate change is real; it's a threat and it's man made, I'll participate when the solutions look like solutions and less like a scheme to get more money from the masses. But my 50+ years as seen a string of alarms meant to extract money from the gullible only to see a decade later, we have moved on to the next alarm.
Once again the chicken littles are squawking,
Of course once again beginning by making a double fallacy, combining argumentum ad populum and argumentum ab auctoritate.
The one where the authorities of their secret sect of cargo cult science, only choose those novitiates that know how to sprinkly tea leaves over tree rings and determine the global climate from a plant that has moved at most a few inches, and how to use the magic trick of hiding the decline.
Because history proves that the best way for science to proceed is to push out all dissenting opinions.
OH and ignoring the opinions of a bunch of people whose very lively hood depends on the climate. Of course the high priests don't know what a lively hood is, living off of their tithes to recite their mystical incantations.
Because they're not in the US? Just supposed to be US right wing doubting climate change.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
fucked farm animals for entertainment thus spreading gloriously nasty bugs around the human race.
you really need to look to african negroes sodomizing primates for this
But thanks for playing, libtard.
You can have my SIG when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
I think the tin foil is finally getting to you. You're supposed to swath your body in it, not eat it.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Who knew that Bible-thumping Republicans were farming Sweden!
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
Yes, I can see the rise. And I still don't care because (1) it's slow and it looks like it's not a big deal, and (2) nobody has come up with a feasible and reliable way of changing it anyway.
It's a requirement if you are trying to get real work done, but not needed (actually much better off without) if you are just sucking in the grant money for producing politically correct results.
So this is no surprise in any way shape or form.