Ag Group {American Farm Bureau} Asked to Recognize Climate Change (UALR)

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Dr. Jeffrey Gaffney, chair of UALR’s Department of Chemistry and lead scientist for the Department of Energy Atmospheric Science Program’s Megacity Aerosol Experiment – Mexico City (MAX-Mex), joined a growing list of climate scientists asking the American Farm Bureau to rethink its position on global climate change.

Gaffney joined other scientists with climate change expertise to ask the Farm Bureau for a meeting to discuss the latest science. According to the Farm Bureau, “there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment on the exact impact or extent of carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming, or how they will affect future climate changes.”

Gaffney said members of the Union of Concerned Scientists, a consortium of citizens and scientists, is urging environmental solutions to global warming and other climate changes. The group issued an open letter to Farm Bureau members asking to discuss the issue.
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“I have people say all the time, ‘I don’t believe in climate change,’” Gaffney said. “It’s not religion that you can believe in or not. It’s a problem that we need to face.”
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more: http://ualr.edu/www/2010/01/08/gaffney-endorses-call-for-ag-group-to-recognize-climate-change/