Dispelling Myths & Needing Ag Educators

Dispelling Myths & Needing Ag Educators

Dispelling Myths & Needing Ag Educators plus Food Forethought. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Northwest Report.

Wind energy is hot here in the northwest but greater acceptance of wind development is needed to take full advantage of those benefits and unfortunately Colorado Wind for Schools Coordinator Tom Potter says there are still skeptics. He says there are several myths that have kept people on the fence or in opposition to wind energy development

POTTER: Three that come to mind is that wind must be backed up by 100% generation, that’s just not true. A second one is you can’t add wind without building more transmission lines. That’s also not true. And finally that only a few fat cats are going to benefit from wind around here. That’s not true either.

Agricultural educators prepare students to fill jobs in one of the only major sectors of the U.S. economy that grew in 2010. Currently, agricultural educators are in short supply all over the United States, with not enough agricultural education graduates being produced each year to fill job openings. To help close that gap, agriculture teachers across the nation will be telling their own stories to their students on Thursday, February 24th in observance of National Teach Ag Day.

Now with today’s Food Forethought, here’s Lacy Gray.

It’s hard to buy into the end of the world scenario known as global warming. The Mid-West and the East Coast have been hit particularly hard with severe winter storms this year. Global warming enthusiasts insist these storms are a direct result of weather patterns brought about due to human caused global warming. Those with a more realistic view on climate change and weather patterns, such as weather expert and forecaster Art Douglas, would quickly point out several flaws in the global warming theory. The “hot spots” the global warming press emphasize are Antarctica and the Arctic, claiming that ice melt in these areas is happening at an alarming rate. But as Douglas reported, ice in the Arctic is the thickest it’s been in eight years, with weather patterns in these areas beginning to stabilize. Yes this is weather, not climate, but the buzz has been about the Arctic and Antarctica melting, while current statistics show an increase in ice mass. The ice melt or mass, like everything else on the planet, fluctuates over time. Hence the retreat of major ice sheets thousands of years ago. Wonder which news affiliate covered that?

Thanks Lacy. That’s today’s Northwest Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Ag Information Network.

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