Ottawa to fund assessment of greenhouse gases on dairy farms

Farmers Forum staff

OTTAWA — More than $8.5 million in federal tax dollars will be pumped into the Dairy Farmers of Canada organization over the next five years, partly to assess greenhouse gas emissions on the country’s dairy farms. The federal government is targeting these three emissions: methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide.

Trudeau’s Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Lawrence MacAulay, announced the contribution ahead of the organization’s annual general meeting in July. The money includes up to $5 million to make it possible for DFC’s proAction quality assurance program to assess greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration, water use and biodiversity “to help farmers make environmentally conscious decisions in their farming practices.”
A remainder of $3,572,786 will be used to bolster DFC’s DairyTrace program that tracks all of the country’s dairy animals as a disease-prevention measure.

“Today’s investment is about giving Dairy Farmers of Canada the support they need to help farmers adopt sustainable practices to lower emissions, and improve the traceability and safety of dairy products,” MacAulay said in a press release.

What’s left out of the announcement is that the funding is to support a climate change ideology that is using scaremongering projections of global warming based on flimsy theories that cannot be supported by serious science or serious scientists. The number of worldwide leading scientists who call man-made global warming a hoax is growing.

Scientist and Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore has been saying for some time that while the most important so-called enemy of the people is carbon dioxide, “There is no evidence whatsoever that carbon dioxide is the control knob of the Earth’s climate.”

Moore, who left Greenpeace when it stopped following the science, adds that “Carbon dioxide is lower now than it has been for almost the entire history of the Earth… It is colder now than it has been through almost the entire history of the Earth.”

“All the CO2 we are emitting from burning fossil fuels came from the atmosphere and the oceans in the first place… Life used it and stored it as fossil fuels… and they’re full of carbon.”

“That’s why CO2 is so low now compared to historical levels. It was 6000 [parts per million]… And it went to 180 [parts per million] during the most recent Glacial Maximum, only 30 parts per million above the death of plants.”

“We are life’s salvation,” Moore says. “We are replenishing the CO2 back into the atmosphere and the oceans, where it had been locked in rocks and fossil fuels for billions of years.”