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<blockquote data-quote="Frank-the-Wool" data-source="post: 6740542" data-attributes="member: 699"><p>The chief adviser on Climate change is a gentleman who knows his stuff but can be a little abrasive about telling the facts. He was also one of the advisers on the CCC.</p><p>I know that whatever seems to be unpalatable to farmers then the NFU gets blamed especially by GUTH but in reality it is impossible to be a climate change denier with so much "science" being put into the subject. </p><p>The NFU point has always been that agriculture is in a very strong position to be part of the solution as we farmers manage a large part of the land and as a by product we grow food to feed people.</p><p></p><p>I believe it is very clear the direction of travel that agriculture and land use will be pushed and the money will go with it for the environment and to reduce or sequestrate Co2.</p><p></p><p>However unless we have an organisation like the NFU then we will be sold down the river as there is no point us being mandated to do all of this to save the planet when we only emit 1% of the Co2 in the world.</p><p></p><p>While it would appear that the livestock sector will be the hardest hit by the move to reduce meat consumption the report suggests a further reduction in livestock numbers by 10% in the next 30 years. You have to see that numbers of sheep and cattle have reduced by almost 20% in the last 30 years anyway. However because of genetic improvements and health efficiencies production has also increased. The problem has been that profitability has not!</p><p></p><p>At this critical time in our history now is NOT the time to knock the NFU as we will need to be seen to have a strong collective stance against all the so called climate change experts who can only talk about saving the planet, whereas most of us have the land and tools to at least do something about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frank-the-Wool, post: 6740542, member: 699"] The chief adviser on Climate change is a gentleman who knows his stuff but can be a little abrasive about telling the facts. He was also one of the advisers on the CCC. I know that whatever seems to be unpalatable to farmers then the NFU gets blamed especially by GUTH but in reality it is impossible to be a climate change denier with so much "science" being put into the subject. The NFU point has always been that agriculture is in a very strong position to be part of the solution as we farmers manage a large part of the land and as a by product we grow food to feed people. I believe it is very clear the direction of travel that agriculture and land use will be pushed and the money will go with it for the environment and to reduce or sequestrate Co2. However unless we have an organisation like the NFU then we will be sold down the river as there is no point us being mandated to do all of this to save the planet when we only emit 1% of the Co2 in the world. While it would appear that the livestock sector will be the hardest hit by the move to reduce meat consumption the report suggests a further reduction in livestock numbers by 10% in the next 30 years. You have to see that numbers of sheep and cattle have reduced by almost 20% in the last 30 years anyway. However because of genetic improvements and health efficiencies production has also increased. The problem has been that profitability has not! At this critical time in our history now is NOT the time to knock the NFU as we will need to be seen to have a strong collective stance against all the so called climate change experts who can only talk about saving the planet, whereas most of us have the land and tools to at least do something about it. [/QUOTE]
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