Methane emissions from flooded rice paddies contribute to global warming just as coal-fired power plants, automobile exhausts and other sources do with the carbon dioxide they spew into the atmosphere. In fact, the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change meeting this week in Bangkok concludes that rice production was a main cause of rising methane emissions in the 20th century. It calls for better controls. "There is no other crop that is emitting such a large amount of greenhouse gases," said Reiner Wassmann, a climate change specialist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.
Gee Whiz, the global warming fanatics are now going to force impoverished farmers to cap their methane emissions. I imagine they don't care if the poor farmers lack the funds to introduce environmental friendly farming.
"In the developing world, you really have to think first and foremost about providing population with food," said Pete Smith of the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, lead author of the IPCC report's section on agriculture. "You can't start thinking about climate mitigation if you have to feed your family."
Do we really want to embrace the questionable science of global warming such that it might advocate the elimination of a staple crop to millions of poor people. Especially since these are the people who are traveling around the world in their jets. These fanatics aren't going to give up their luxuries, but millions of people need to give up their food?
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