Pork Stops Global Warming

GED recipient and former $368,000-a-year CIETC head Ramona Cunningham with Senator Tom Harkin at the dedication of the "Tom Harkin Learning Center" at CIETC offices in October 20, 2004.

Tom Harkin might be one of the winners of the $25 million prize that Richard Branson and Al Gore have proposed in order to reduce global warming kill Manbearpig. This is from the AP:

Sen. Amy Klobuchar is urging the Senate Agriculture Committee chairman to include a host of provisions in the next farm bill aimed at helping to reduce global warming, arguing that agriculture can play a constructive role in helping the environment.

In a letter Tuesday to Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Klobuchar wrote, "I respectfully request that agriculture's role in fighting climate change be made a major new focus of the next farm bill."

Klobuchar, a freshman Minnesota Democrat, said she will introduce a package of incentives in the coming months with an eye toward including them in the farm bill. Those include:

* Helping farmers improve the energy efficiency of their equipment and buildings, and increase their use of renewable resources for their farms' energy needs,

* Incentives for farmers to grow perennial grasses and other biomass crops for cellulosic ethanol production, and

* Funding for research aimed at helping farmers come up with ways to store carbon in the soil.

Wow, who knew that giving more taxpayer money to farmers could eliminate global warming kill Manbearpig? These Democrats are really onto something.