Farm Bureau President Bob Stallman Believes in Global Cooling

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Bob Stallman, head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, has declared that the earth is cooling in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.ย  So it must be true.

Using the Frank Luntz approved language of โ€œsound science,โ€ Stallman argues against any Congressional efforts to fight global warming.ย 

He has a good name for the cause, eh? Stallman?ย  Itโ€™s par for the course for the Farm Bureau to deny, delay and attempt to kill any action on climate change, despite the risk to farmers of ignoring theย issue.

Despite pointing out himself that climate data โ€œclearly indicate an identifiable warming trendโ€ and that โ€œcarbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are increasing and that man-made emissions have increased for a number of decades,โ€ the stall man argues that โ€œthose arenโ€™t the only facts, and they donโ€™t tell the whole story.โ€
True.ย  Missing entirely from Stallmanโ€™s testimony was any mention of the many significant challenges farmers will face if we FAIL to address climate change.ย  Droughts, torrential rains and storms are just a few examples of global warming consequences that will negatively affect agriculture.ย  Farmers could pay a steep price for the stall-and-kill lobbying efforts of the Farm Bureau if Congress fails to pass strong, science-based legislation to combat climate change.

Brad Johnson over at The Wonk Room takes Stallman to task over his denial of the fact that โ€œthe last ten years have been the warmest decade by far โ€” significantly warmer than the previous decade of 1989-1998, which had been the warmest, itself significantly warmer than 1979-1988, then the warmest decade in the last 150 years.โ€ย 

Johnson even includes a nice, pretty graph for Stallman to review and hopefully come to the conclusion that heโ€™s wrong.

But, as Stallman himself says, โ€œfacts are stubborn things.โ€

Stallman also testified that โ€œleadership only occurs when people are following you.โ€ย 

Dues-paying members of the Farm Bureau who disagree with Stallmanโ€™s stance on this issue should voice their disapproval of their main lobbying groupโ€™s efforts against climate action, and stop followingย him.

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Kevin is a contributor and strategic adviser to DeSmog. He runs the digital marketing agency Spake Media House. Named a โ€œGreen Heroโ€ by Rolling Stone Magazine and one of the โ€œTop 50 Tweetersโ€ on climate change and environment issues, Kevin has appeared in major news media outlets around the world for his work on digital campaigning. Kevin has been involved in the public policy arena in both the United States and Canada for more than a decade. For five years he was the managing editor of DeSmogBlog.com. In this role, Kevinโ€™s research into the โ€œclimate denial industryโ€ and the right-wing think tank networks was featured in news media articles around the world. He is most well known for his ground-breaking research into David and Charles Kochโ€™s massive financial investments in the Republican and tea partyย networks. Kevin is the first person to be designated a โ€œCertified Expertโ€ on theย political and community organizing platformย NationBuilder. Prior to DeSmog, Kevin worked in various political and government roles. He was Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Multiculturalism and a Special Assistant to the Minister of State for Asia Pacific, Foreign Affairs for the Government of Canada. Kevin also worked in various roles in the British Columbia provincial government in the Office of the Premier and the Ministry of Health. In 2008 Kevin co-founded a groundbreaking new online election tool called Vote for Environment which was later nominated for a World Summit Award in recognition of the worldโ€™s best e-Content and innovative ICTย applications. Kevin moved to Washington, DC in 2010 where he worked for two years as the Director of Online Strategy for Greenpeace USA and has since returned to his hometown of Vancouver, Canada.

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