Moe Declares Sask Carbon Negative

[jazz]

Good on him to say what we all know.

Surprise, the commies at the NFU are first at the bit trying to destroy our business.

https://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/farmers-union-questions-scott-moes-claim-of-net-zero-agriculture-in-sask

[chuckChuck]

As we know Moe isn't good at math or facts.

The same thing happened when he commissioned the finance department to show all the costs of the carbon tax but none of the rebates coming back to Saskatchewan residents or the economic activity of moving towards net zero.

If that was the case the small nuclear reactors Moe wants to reduce carbon emissions with won't produce any jobs or economic activity in the province nor show up on the books.

The one thing that seems to be falling dramatically in the province is the credibility of the Sask Party and Scotty Moe.

[seldomseen]

If you think Saskatchewan doing anything to lower carbon will affect the weather you are delusional!

[WiltonRanch]

And on cue the ndp mouthpiece comes to life. Take a breath.

[chuckChuck]

Moe plans to cut carbon emisssions with nuclear? What a commie! Doesn't he know the erath is flat and global warming is a WEF hoax! LOL

[jazz]

Sask is 40% farmland, rest is boreal forest. Farmers been sequestering carbon since the early 90s.

Yup we have done our part.

Time to evoke the Sask First act and tell all climate commies to politely FO.

Is closet marxist Darren a buddy of yours chuck.

[shtferbrains]

Canada has 65% of the world's Boreal forest and a significant portion of the wetlands. Saskatchewan has more than our share.

We are undoubtedly a huge carbon sink not an emmiter.

[kANOLA]

Sure nice to see the NFU looking out for best interests of farming.

[jazz]

Quebec should be buying carbon credits from Sask instead of commie-fornia.

So glad Moe standing up. All we hear about is more tax, more this and that and nobody ever gave us credit for carbon sequestration or recognized our trillion trees.

Just a bunch of dumb fcks around this climate stuff.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Is closet marxist Darren a buddy of yours chuck.

Chuck is very careful to not give up his allegiances, by never ever saying a word about his masters at the NFU.

But back when his fellow NFU comrade Grassfarmer was still with us, he would get violently defensive if anything was said about Darrin or the NFU. It is fun to watch Chuck squirm and pretend this isn't a deeply personal offense to him as well. And there is no closet, Darrin is very public about his Marxist views.

[Partners]

[chuckChuck]

Lots of nice pictures of the carbon sinks but you forgot to add a picture of the carbon cycle.

Carbon is captured and released in a cycle that was mostly stable for thousands of years until humans starting clearing forests and grasslands and burning fossil fuels on a large scale.

And it doesn't really matter whether Saskatchewan is a net carbon sink, which it is not, unless you think the natural carbon sink suddenly stopped releasing carbon!

Carbon knows no boundaries and is increasing rapidly in the atmosphere. We were stable at 280 ppm of carbon dioxide about 200-300 years ago and now we are at over 400 ppm. Where did all that extra carbon come from? Burning fossil energy sources and changes to the landscape.

Most of the carbon captured by annual crop agriculture is in the top few inches of the soil and decomposes rapidly releasing carbon. Other wise there would be a large increase in organic matter and residues on the surface which there isn't in annual cropping. Most farmers don't want large amounts of residues on the surface otherwise they can't seed through it without a disc opener.

And when farmers clear or bulldoze all the trees and drain the wetlands they release a tremendous amount of carbon.

[jazz]

What a joke. The world is at its lowest ppm CO2 in its history.

Or does history start in 1980 like Env Canada likes to tell you.

No farmers are plowing down the northern boreal forest chuck.

Sask is carbon negative and we have sequestered a lot of chinas emissions in the past 20 yrs.

[chuckChuck]

What a joke. The world is at its lowest ppm CO2 in its history.

Or does history start in 1980 like Env Canada likes to tell you.

No farmers are plowing down the northern boreal forest chuck.

Sask is carbon negative and we have sequestered a lot of chinas emissions in the past 20 yrs.

And Trump is still President right? LOL

JAZZ you take the cake for the biggest dumbass time and again with statements like "the world is at its lowest ppm CO2 in its history." HUH?

Right up there with A5's idea that we need to burn coal to make it rain and that we will run out of C02 in the atmosphere if we don't keep burning fossil fuels. Hilarious!

[chuckChuck]

So Jazz and other flat earthers, does it look like we are currently in a period of the lowest CO2 levels in history? Nope!

Graphic: The relentless rise of carbon dioxide
Ancient air bubbles trapped in ice enable us to step back in time and see what Earth's atmosphere, and climate, were like in the distant past. They tell us that levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are higher than they have been at any time in the past 400,000 years. During ice ages, CO2 levels were around 200 parts per million (ppm), and during the warmer interglacial periods, they hovered around 280 ppm (see fluctuations in the graph). In 2013, CO2 levels surpassed 400 ppm for the first time in recorded history. This recent relentless rise in CO2 shows a remarkably constant relationship with fossil-fuel burning, and can be well accounted for based on the simple premise that about 60 percent of fossil-fuel emissions stay in the air.

Today, we stand on the threshold of a new geologic era, which some term the "Anthropocene", one where the climate is very different to the one our ancestors knew.

If fossil-fuel burning continues at a business-as-usual rate, such that humanity exhausts the reserves over the next few centuries, CO2 will continue to rise to levels of order of 1500 ppm. The atmosphere would then not return to pre-industrial levels even tens of thousands of years into the future. This graph not only conveys the scientific measurements, but it also underscores the fact that humans have a great capacity to change the climate and planet.