Keean Bexte writes in The Counter Signal
Much like in the Netherlands, Justin Trudeau is bringing in a nitrogen emissions cap that will absolutely decimate Canadian farming.
In December 2020, the Trudeau government unveiled their new climate plan, with a focus on reducing nitrous oxide emissions from fertilizer by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030.
“Fertilizers play a major role in the agriculture sector’s success and have contributed to record harvests in the last decade. They have helped drive increases in Canadian crop yields, grain sales, and exports,” a news release from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada reads.
“However, nitrous oxide emissions, particularly those associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use have also grown significantly. That is why the Government of Canada has set the national fertilizer emissions reduction target, which is part of the commitment to reduce total GHG emissions in Canada by 40-45% by 2030….”
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-nitrogen-policy-will-decimate-canadian-farming/
Bexte quotes a report from Fertilizer Canada
It is estimated that a 30% absolute emission reduction for a farmer with 1000 acres of canola and 1000 acres of wheat, stands to have their profit reduced by approximately $38,000 – $40,500/ annually.
In 2020, Western Canadian farmers planted approximately 20.8 million acres of canola. Using these values, cumulatively farm revenues from canola could be reduced by $396M – $441M on an annual basis. Wheat famers could experience a reduction of $400M.
More from Bexte
Of course, reducing nitrogen emissions released by fertilizer crucial to the survivability of the agriculture sector isn’t the only target of Trudeau’s government. Every part of the economy has been negatively impacted by Trudeau’s climate agenda.
On April 1 — the same day he gave himself a raise — Trudeau decided to go ahead and jack up the carbon tax by an additional 25%, consequently increasing the price of practically everything.
https://thecountersignal.com/trudeau-nitrogen-policy-will-decimate-canadian-farming/
Read the full article at The Counter Signal
Grrrr. Nobody voted for this; it is top-down rule.
Trudeau had a problem with the truckers; we should import some Dutch farmers’ strategies.
Robert, note that nowhere on the websites of the three mainstream national television news outlets is there a peep about the Dutch farmers. This time they want to avoid being labelled biased by simply not covering the story at all.
The MSM is controlled by the few. The last thing in the world they would allow is information that contradicts their agenda.
Trudeau purchased the Canadian press. Well, the top fifteen newspapers, I believe, at a cost of some $600million CND and a couple of top offs since 2019. You know, to save Canadian democracy. 😏
Here in Canada it is the GPM, Government Paid Media.
Tues: UN / Trudeau: “We are on the verge of a global food catastrophe”
Weds: UN / Trudeau: “We must cut farming and livestock by 30%”
Which came first?
To be fair, the National Post has had multiple stories about this.
Dutch farmers will eventually be bought out for housing projects and natural places.
The Dutch PM literally said he needs that farmland to build houses for “asylum seekers”.
You must understand that in The Netherlands we have had an enduring housing crisis since WWII. That’s right for over 75 years young people have not been able to move out of their parents house because of “waiting lists” of up to 15 years. That’s also right and not even an exception. It’s literally worse than communism.
Except when you are an “asylum seeker” then you are moved to the front of the queue.
Also nobody can answer the question of why housing is 50-70% more expensive then in the neighboring countries. It is literally worse then what the Mafia does
The coming civil war and following revolution is about much more than nitrogen or CO2. And it will be bloody.
This ^
Eff the EU
Wait…. Billy Gates will say he can feed Europe with all the farmlands he is buying with his Chinese friends. So now people in Europe can build houses, not own properties and be happy…
That country is quite literally built on the destruction of the environment. Reclaiming land from the sea to kick people off it. Do they have ANY ability whatsoever to stand back and look at what they are doing objectively? When a government treats its people with such disrespect, i’s worthy of revolution.
It seems that are fair rulers are importing CCP and Red Army strategies to counter such moves.
IPCC’s AR4 Chapter 2 Page 212 Table 2.14
tells us that Nitrous oxide (N2O)
Has a lifetime of 114 years.
(not 113 and not 115 but 114 years)
The Global Warming Potential numbers for N2O are:
20 years 289 times more powerful than CO2
100 years 298 times more powerful than CO2
500 Years 153 times more powerful than CO2
The IPCC Reports are silent as to how much warming N2O
is on track to cause over the next 100 years, only that it is
298 times more powerful at trapping heat than CO2.
“Grrrr. Nobody voted for this“
I beg to differ. Voters collectively get what they vote for. Trudeau has been very transparent giving Canadians exactly what they vote, and they’ll get more of it til they vote him out.
The last thing he was transparent about was legalizing marijuana. He hasn’t said a single honest thing since then. He is a lesson in how far you can get by acting. A complete con man. He puts on a serious, low pitched near whisper “sincere” voice. along wit an expression of deep, deep concern. It’s 100% an act. He’s a creep and a pedo and a liar.
Castreau would double down on being green.
Going too far green could backfire.
“the only barrier between us and anarchy is the last nine meals we’ve had. It may be taken as axiomatic that a starving man is never a good citizen.” Alfred Henry Lewis 1896
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/the-green-agenda-will-be-revolutionary-against-the-green-agenda/
https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-truckers-ab5-supply-chain
The enemy of canada.
At some point it will be enough and someone will remove him.
If David Suzuki can promise attacks on energy infrastructure without penalty, then I can point out the obvious end point with these Liberals.
Is “carbon in the glass” Suzuki still around? He doesn’t show up in the media in the US Ant more. What a bonehead.
My guess, Ken, is that David Suzuki, who is now 86, is too frail and sick to appear in public. Suzuki-ism lives on. Unfortunately.
If he went senile, he’d be MORE worth listening to.
comments like this do no one any good
Yes, let’s not be rude while we watch Western Civilization being flushed down the toilet….
I miss the mean tweets.
Fence sitters like you only enables the abusers.
Sorry I misread. I thougfht it said ” the enema of Canada”.
Meanwhile, Tamara Lich, on of the “leaders” of the truckers convoy is being harassed by the justice system. Back in jail from probation charges for a charge she hasn’t been found guilty of. Some supporter hollers ta her and she waves. They charge here with breaking probation. This is not a free country anymore.
Because Sri Lanka is such a stellar success story?
Sri Lanka without tropical weather.
Klaus Schwab (WEF) thinks energy prices must rise to be even more successful than he was in Sri
Lanka. This will defeat the climate crisis & save democracy. My solution: remove power from
delusional dictatorial fascists like him & Nobama’s puppet Dementia Joe which will make it painfully
obvious there is no climate crisis to worry about.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2022/07/11/world-economic-forum-says-democracy-is-dying-ditch-fossil-fuels-and-save-it/
My favorite phrase from the Sri Lanka revolution: “Citizens on the hunt for politicians”
https://twitter.com/RadioGenova/status/1545687542175043585
This will make the trucker’s protest look like a Santa parade in comparison. The Liberal government and their once-oil-industry-now-expanded-to-agriculture western citizen impoverishment policies are already exceedingly unpopular in Alberta and Saskatchewan. They have virtually no voice in parliament, so the only action left is confrontation….
https://thecountersignal.com/european-farmers-rise-up/
And the first step was to start taking your guns away…
Yep. That’s exactly what he did. “You don’t have the right to defend yourself.” – Justin Trudeau
Someone needs to disabuse Sparkle Socks of that notion.
& still the sonabitch runs away & hides when the truckers came to town
yeah, he’s a real bad ass….
It’d probably be a good idea for the farmers (and anybody else keen on protesting) to take whatever money they have left in the bank out before they take to the streets. Trudeau has form in this department.
I know people who took their money out of the country after that fiasco. I’m 65 and don’t exactly run in radical circles. It’s the destruction of what was a very successful country.
John,
“It’s the destruction of what was a very successful country.”
Bug?
Or feature?
Auto.
So Trudeau, part of the “let them eat cake” Green Phonies, thinks “synthetic” nitrogen fertilizer is dangerous? Piss on it! No, literally, put natural ammonia from cow pee on as a fertilizer. I’m not actually sure this works, but I like the sound of it.
Actually, back in the day, using “stale urine” was part of the recipe for making saltpeter (potassium nitrate) in order to make black powder.
It depends on what other salts are dissolved in the urine and what kind of crop. Sometimes you can see lush growth on the patches where the cattle have peed, sometimes it kills. The cow pats in pastures stand out because firstly you get lusher growth and secondly the extra nitrogen makes the grass taste sour. This in turn gives the livestock some protection against reinfestation with internal parasites, whose eggs are passed out in faeces to hatch on the grass and be reingested when the livestock eat the grass.
you ever watched animals graze? the cows dont eat the pooped area grasses at all. if you put sheep into that area they will eat it. horses ditto wont eat their own fertilised spots, but eat the other species spots. I figure theyre aware of contamination and too high nitrogen giving them a gut ache and the runs, if not new worms as well. the super high fertilised spots also do NOT produce good seed heads but are almost all lush growth. used decades of aviary sweepings to grow what was supposed to be Millet etc
well it got to 10ft high super lush green and? developed ONE head of not so great proportions on each cluster
non treated areas had lesser growth but excellent multiple heads
“all that glisters is not gold”
That’s why I come here. To learn. Thanks!
it does work and works well, and we have those disgusting CAFO farms to use it from
before natural mixed farming ensured animals fertilising by grazing the stubble
now the greentards want stubble left to grow moulds and protect vermin cos its green ya know
Yes it works as all dairy milking farms in New Zealand and most other countries hold the wash down effluent in lined ponds and irrigate on to pasture .
The problem is that our mad government is going to tax -levy the nitrous oxide and methane from our live stock.
These moves by uninformed dopey politicians such as what Trudeau is attempting can only cause a major famine .
Artificial nitrogen feeds probably 2 billion people on this planet .
Just remember that the worlds population has almost quadrupled in the last 80 years .
I am sure that cultivated land has not increased by very much but even if it has increased 50% that is not close to 400% that the worlds population has increased .
If farmers around the world were not using nitrogen fertilizer there is no way that there could be enough food for every one .
There will be widespread famines if leftist green governments are allowed to enforce major reductions in nitrogen use and crop yields will decline rapidly .
This is not an exaggeration as crop yields with continuous cropping which is the practice in Canada and most countries growing cereals and vegetable crops rely on artificial nitrogen .
Do these stupid politicians ask for advice or do they only listen to greens and climate change zealots?
They are surrounded by their appointees, college professors who profess to know what they don’t know.
The greater the % of non-business people in a government, the worse the government will be.
See Clinton, Obama, Brandon, getting worse each time.
You are right on the money Drake .
Why do countries elect politicians with little or no business ability to run their countries ?
Answer. The electors have believed lies and propaganda that the news media constantly proclaim that CO2 is a Pollutant and that the politicians will fix the problem .
It is high time that political parties were formed to tell voters the simple truth .
CO2 is not a pollutant .
CO2 is essential to all life on earth .
Their is no climate crisis .
There will never be a climate crisis .
Stop this madness of fighting CO2 and start looking after your country and your peoples welfare instead of ruining your country prostrating your selves before the corrupt UN.
Those Down Under got it right side up!
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-australian-tv-calls-trudeau-dutch-pm-pin-up-boys-for-wef-amid-populist-protests
Sri Lanka was another WEF failure, what they’re wanting to do globally-
https://realclimatescience.com/2022/07/the-wef-plan-for-sri-lanka/
The WEF’s plan to have us eat bugs may hit a roadblock if the PETA Ultra Militants get wind
of this:
ozspeaksup Reply to Peta of Newark July 11, 2022 2:35 am
…
now enjoy this everyone;-)
bugs feel pain..so it will be fun to see new laws and fees for approvals of painfree culling of bugs for food won’t it
https://www.sciencealert.com/insects-probably-do-feel-pain-similar-to-how-we-do-scientists-argue
Those Down Under really do have it right side up!
Bugs are intelligent. They fly away when you swat at them.
Bugs are intelligent, eh? Then maybe we should elect bugs instead of politicians. Couldn’t be any worse.
glad you read and liked that 😉 thanks
The Outsiders program on Sky News Australia hosted by Rowan Dean helps me maintain a fragile grip. The rest of the Oz msm and the government funded ABC are ignoring the story. Must stick to the narrative to keep Klaus and his minions happy.
What: No more rats, weasels or snakes? Politics will never be the same apart from the grubs.
you meant maggots surely?
There is no “Nitrogen Crisis”
Protesting The Non-Crisis Nitrogen “Crisis” In The Netherlands
To me, it looks like a land grab. The new landowners will, of course, not care a whit about any nitrogen issues.
A smart farmer offered to do away with his cattle but said he wanted to keep the land. The offer was declined by the authorities. After some back and forth the officials finally admitted: it’s the land we want.
Nitrogen is a hoax !! All fake to facilitate a landgrab and remove food independence.
And where did this hoax com from? The nitrogen issue is new. The overall story is not.
In the mid 1980s the Hawke/Keating government introduced compulsory superannuation. From memory it was John Howard in opposition who declared that the primary function of this compulsory super was to socialise the ownership of industry.
This was absolutely true, but I never saw him say it again.
The original proposal for an emissions trading scheme, with Howard now in government, refused point blank to admit credits for the sequestration side of Agriculture’s carbon cycle. The proposal was to tax Ag’s recycled carbon on the same basis as fossil carbon. This was grossly inequitable, but the proponents were getting away with it because with only Ag and Forestry having a carbon cycle the electorate had no notion of the concept of sequestration.
Fortunately Barnaby Joyce arrived on the scene in the senate. He was at the time the only working accountant in the parliament. Others had his letters, none his expertise. He put numbers on the plan which showed that this ETS would quickly bankrupt Australia’s entire grazing industry.
This would then render that 60% of Australia’s land area which is used for grazing valueless, enabling the government to transfer it into new ownership without compensating the current owners.
Those new owners would be the compulsory super funds.
With Ag the stumbling block, that proposal was shunted into the too hard basket, but the inequity was never acknowledged. Australia has just now elected an apparently unfettered Marxist government, so we can now expect that that ETS will be resurrected in the budget coming in a couple of months.
Australia’s Marxists believe that if they get rid of the bosses the “workers” will walk into the factories (in this case farms) and keep them operating.
With Holland being one of the most densely populated parts of the planet their Marxists may also believe, like their heroes Stalin and Mao, that starving half the world’s population to death might be a good thing.
upvote many ,many for that! and am dreading the next 3 yrs , the damage albo will do and the mindset of those electing him wont change even if we can manage to throw the numpty out asap
Throwing the owners/managers out and letting the “workers” run things always turns out GREAT.
Did a shore excursion while on a cruise to Mexico. Was told of the pineapple plantations that provided almost 100% of the pineapples imported into the US until the Mexican government took the land away and gave it to the people.
Today US imports from Mexico are around 5%.
Costa Rica is over 80%.
“Throwing the owners/managers out and letting the “workers” run things always turns out GREAT.”
I’m curious if there is any example of that actually working.
This same nonsense is happening in New Zealand .
The government led by our Communist Prime Minister is wanting to levy- Tax farmers for their methane and Nitrous oxide emissions.
Then out of left field the Chair of our Climate Commission Dr Rod Carr (never trust a man with a long beard )has stated that farmers cannot claim the CO2 sequestration that native trees and other vegetation sequests on their land.
This seems to be following the same play book as Australia.
Bankrupt the farmers and nationalize the farms .
Collective farming was a failure in Russia but I would not trust these people as our Prime Minister was elected President of the International President of the Union of International Youth in 2007 .
A taped speech records her saying Comrade 15 times in 8 minutes to the IUSY in2009.
We do have a government owned farming company originally Land Corp now renamed Pamu that had a lot of land on hand as they were doing a great job of developing land to sell to young farmers using a ballot to those who had a deposit and the knowledge to farm .
Can you believe that a lot of the developed land was close to Lake Taupo and there is a nitrogen cap on all land that drains into Lake Taupo .
Pamu sold the land and purchased other land around New Zealand as they did not want to farm with these constrictions .
Pamu employs over 70 people in their head office and every three or four farms has a supervisor over the manager’s or share milkers .
They have over 200 farms .
hmm and billy gates AND Blackrock and glencore? have so much land and other basics under their aegis right now hmm seems to me they will ever so nicely say they can produce what we need at a high cost of course..freedom of choice as a start. bill loves gmo /nomeat/labmeat meals and bugs..for everyone else anyway!
huls,
Yep, this may be a land grab under the cover of another “crisis” –
where did they get that idea?? LOL
But here is a reasonably balanced [to my uneducated eye] discussion of nitrogen from the AGU 2017:
“Is Nitrogen the New Carbon?”
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017EF000592
Indeed. It is NOT about nitrogen. If it was, then diesel cars and aviation would be ordered to reduce as well.
Well, Diesel vehicles have a catalytic converter to do what nature does anyway, only a bit quicker, since it is believed that NOx is dangerous if concentrated in cities.
Doing that to jet engines might be problematical.
Funnily enough, it requires urea additive.
But the rub is the ‘what nature does anyway’ bit…
In the Dutch instance, there were plans for Tristate City appearing on Twatbook, which rather gave away the WEF’s cunning plan. A Chi-na style megalopolis for the proles.
My question, as someone soon to buy a manufacturing business whose primary input is pork, is what impact will this policy (if it is enacted) have on livestock farming? It seems to me this would drive up the cost of almost all farmed meat products, since grain is a staple in the diets of many (most?) farmed animals.
Not outside the USA… grain is a far lower input for livestock in europe
Everyone knows this, in France they eat Cake
griff, I suppose that you eat the chicken manufactured and packed in your supermarket from some unspecified raw materials, not the chicken which are fed with grain or grain flours…
You are partly correct in that beef and sheep in the UK have grass as their major feed input for a major part of their lives.
Pigs and poultry are almost completely reliant on cereal and protein feeds.
Dairy cows fall somewhere in between depending on whether they are grazing based herds, usually spring calving where their feed requirements match seasonal grass growth, or autumn calving herds with a diet based on grass and maize silages, supplemented with cereal/protein feed, and grass providing a proportion of their diet in the latter stage of lactation.
Indeed – it’s why one should be careful not to eat too much chicken or pork – they’re rather high in linoleic acid (omega-6), unlike grass-fed animals.
Griff hasn’t heard of pig nuts…
In the 60s the animal feed manufacturer BOCM produced a 16% protein dairy cow feed called Red Label Nuts.
At the time I thought it could be applied to the Labour Party, but now it seems to also suit many of the “Green” activists.
wtf? chook wheat(screenings) in aus is around 25 for 20kg now and rising nearly monthly I keep 10 chooks and if i didnt get supermarket scraps as well as have ayard n bugs for them theyd be in poor nick
Just note that as a meat producer you will be fighting an uphill battle against the current political structure in the US. This is not a war based on science but a war based on control and ideology. The entire “Green” movement is about the power to control the people. Our only hope here in the US is that the 2022 and 2024 elections sweep the Left out of power and their bureaucratic swamp creatures are rooted out of our agencies.
The Green blob has been working its charms on the Rs, as well. I wouldn’t hold out any vast degree of hope that the Rs would wipe out the blob.
Well you can bet that the RINOs will be of no help whatsoever. The Trump Republicans are our only hope. Professional politicians hate him because he is not part of the system.
It will increase the scarcity, which will increase the price.
My fear is that when the price becomes unaffordable for many people the authorities will then ban meat altogether.
Remember always that the primary objective of Marxism is to abolish all private management of industry, no matter the cost. The farmers are in their firing line because agriculture was the last sector of the economy still dominated by small business capitalism.
Not any more.
In “big business” the owners are rarely the managers. Governments have more say.
Utter stupidity!
Trudeau is just a puppet for Klaus Schwab!
We will own less, and die more, and enjoy it!
if we lived they way they want to force onto us…death WILL be a release
The modern equivalent of purging the Kulaks, Holodomor sure to follow. Not to worry though the UTOPIA of non-gender based equity and inclusion is sure to follow.
Is anyone noticing a pattern here? Draconian laws are being instituted in many nations to limit Western production of critical resources. This is happening when a war is already limiting the availability of energy and food. It is pretty obvious that the few are controlling they many and are planning to collapse the system.
Cloward-Piven Strategy writ large?
AND – well, the ‘stupid’ are in charge, witness its spokesperson:
https://youtu.be/a_PQRMTCeXs
My point is that the “they” that your refer to are not stupid. They are very smart and consist of well educated intelligentsia. Their plan to destroy the West is working perfectly. They are destroying the Western economy and culture at an alarming rate.
re: “My point is that the “they” that your refer to are not stupid. They are very smart and consist of well educated intelligentsia.”
Let’s apply ‘Moneyball quote’ #14 that Bongino uses from time to time – “If he’s a good hitter, WHY doesn’t he hit good?”
Applied IN THIS CASE (and blowing your logic out of the water) – If ‘they’ are “very smart and consist of well educated intelligentsia” WHY do they ‘front’ such a stupid sounding persons such as press secretary Karine Jean-Pierree (who is the replacement for press sec. Jen Psaki) AS SHOWN in the video I linked above?
C’mon man! Use your head now and apply some of that ‘Harvard’ logic!
I think perhaps _Jim missed this “Their plan to destroy the West is working perfectly.”
re: “My point is that the “they” that your refer to are not stupid. They are very smart and consist of well educated intelligentsia.”
‘Moar’ [sic] examples your logic on this is fatally flawed and invoking ‘Moneyball quote’ #14 again (“If he’s a good hitter, WHY doesn’t he hit good?”) WHY did the “very smart and consist of well educated intelligentsia” put forth and elect such a flawed candidate as Joe Biden?
Riddle me this, too, Batman – if the “very smart and consist of well educated intelligentsia” could foresee RBG (Ruth Ginsburg) who was in such poor health even during the Obama years could __not__ convince RBG to retire and allow an Obama nominee to take her place on the USSC – just ‘how smart’ are these people really?
I’m thinking now you’re actually blind to the propaganda, to the aura these people project, through the press and the veil that academia and academic degrees allow to be ‘projected’ onto the public, and that includes, unfortunately, you.
oh my lord…shes useless
Extra booster for you.
“ when a war is already limiting the availability”
I am pretty sure Putin will sell oil. The west is the one doing the limiting 😉
This confused me for a time. Then I figured out that they have to do it while there is a war going on so that they can blame the horrible outcomes of the policies on the war and not on the policies.
War is always used as a distraction before the economic collapse for even more money-printing (just wait…) and to provide a scapegoat.
We’ve always been at war with Eastasia. And Eurasia, apparently…
Does anyone know if Justin Trudeau is part of this group as a result of his WEF involvement?https://www.coreysdigs.com/technology/climate-trace-a-framework-for-esg-initiatives-and-social-climate-credit-system/
There have been many “Accidents” here in the USA involving food processors and now 2 gas pipelines. I contend that these were purposeful events. Read the Cloward-Piven strategy and tell me that there is no planned collapse in progress.
re: “There have been many “Accidents” here in the USA involving food processors”
I’ll bet your ‘brain’ is not in gear on this subject either; do people like you think these plants run on ZERO preventative maintenance? PUT your ‘Harvard’ thinking cap back on and THINK BACK to what was happening under the TWO YEARS the CDC and Fauci were terrorizing America with Covid-19 lockdowns and classifying most of the jobs out there as “non-essential”. THAT would include plant maintenance personnel … those guys and gals that maintain the boilers and burners and over-temp alarms and over-pressure sensors and steam relief valves in ALL those food processing plants …
Yeah but the plane crashing into a mill a couple of months ago is hardly a maintenance issue.
Wow, just as Sri Lanka is crashing, and the Dutch are protesting? It feels like some sort of James Bond international plot…
Well a Blowfeld world plan for total control maybe, rather than 007s
in the best usa terms a rolling flustercluck
As a non-scientist, could someone explain to me the chemistry and physics that is involved here? Several online sources tell me that nitrogen is NOT as greenhouse gas. Here is one of them…
Is Nitrogen a Greenhouse Gas? – Techiescientist
“As there is no electromagnetic field surrounding the nitrogen molecule due to its symmetrical structure, as a result, it is invisible to the infrared radiations reflected from the earth’s surface i.e. it is infrared inactive and is unable to work as a greenhouse gas.”
But the link above also says…
“Nitrogen in its other forms such as nitrous oxide contributes as a greenhouse gas.”
So what supposedly is the issue here regarding the climate alarmist narrative?
I’ll let Kamela explain it to you as Joe needs his nap–
Kamala Harris someone ‘without a single profound insight’ (msn.com)
Just as carbon dioxide is called “carbon,” nitrogen compounds, including ammonia, urea, nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide, nitrous oxide, etc., are now termed “nitrogen.” Nitrous oxide is deemed a greenhouse gas also.
As you note, the diatomic molecular nitrogen (N2) is not a greenhouse gas. It also comprises about 78% of the atmosphere.
Runoff from farms can cause algal blooms, etc., from fertilization effects, but as others have noted, this is probably a land grab, leading to, “you will own nothing.”
When farming is outlawed, only outlaws will farm.
Isn’t it interesting that they don’t want to improve runoff?
CD. It is the usual problem with people who understand chemistry at the grade-school level. They tend to lump all compuonds under broad categories in order to reduce mental effort. So, nitrogen oxides, and ammonia, and who knows what else get lumped under “nitrogen” which then becomes the villain. Likewise Carbon is the all purpose label for CO2 and methane, and a range of other useful compounds whose only connection to one another is carbon.
Nitrogen is not a greenhouse gas, but any number of nitrogen compounds have absorption bands in the IR spectra. In the minds of imbeciles this makes them dangerous compounds.
The air around us contains almost 80% nitrogen (N2). If nitrogen was a greenhouse gas, we would be frying. :-p
The entire remaining Trudeau cabinet suffers of general anesthesia suffering from complete or partial loss of ethics and judgment. They are a bunch of bobble heads that will support any stupidity proposed b the PM’s friends in the back room. This includes the NDP caucus as well. The few decent and good ministers he had jumped boat a long time ago.
Control Nitrogen – A key strategy of the perpetual loser to reduce global population!
Intent? Contradict our Creator’s mandate:
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.””
Genesis 1:28
“. . . fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over . . . every living thing that moves on the earth”
In the context of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and many other plagues, man has failed to fulfill God’s mandate.
Next, we should discuss the failure of man to subdue the earth in the context of “fighting climate change™ “.
Bad mankind . . . bad, bad, bad mankind!
🙂
“Subdue the earth” – not the air above it.
And that distinction is found exactly where in the Bible?
The Schwab contingent is working on doing exactly that, “have dominion over . . . every living thing that moves on the earth”
“…the Government of Canada has set the national fertilizer emissions reduction target”
Did Sri Lanka teach them nothing?
I hesitate to speculate here, but perhaps they have noticed how quickly it worked.
You could be right, but the Dutch are holding out
If they’re anything like their Boer relatives, this could get interesting!
Switzerland’s that way….
Not if they only follow main stream news which has carefully avoided discussing the link between Sri-Lanka’s collapse and their banning chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They’re blaming it on Covid, tourism decline, crippling debt, mismanagement, and, of course, Climate Change. Small mention of “the move toward organic farming” as if it was some voluntary thing farmers just decided to do.
No doubt it taught them to have more government guns available but then they probably have been well prepared n that arena for quite some time.
Give me a break! Justin Trudeau caught, just like Joe Biden, not following the science.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is consider to be the fourth most significant atmospheric gas having the potential to induce greenhouse-gas-effect warming, behind water vapor, CO2 and methane.
However, that potential is just considering N2O’s LWIR absorption in isolation. But when one actually looks into the science of all greenhouse gases mixed together in the Earth’s atmosphere one sees that the LWIR absorption bands of nitrous oxide are covered by the overwhelming, broad LWIR absorption bands of water vapor and the absorption band of CO2 centered around 4 microns (see the attached figure).
N2O is a linear molecule having a relative small permanent dipole moment (0.16 Debye) compared to the non-linear water molecule that has a permanent dipole moment more than 10 times larger (1.84 Debye). This means that, molecule for molecule, H2O will interact with (i.e., absorb) much more strongly LWIR radiated off earth’s surface than will N2O.
Furthermore, N2O’s current atmospheric concentration of only ~0.3 ppmv can be compared to the overwhelming presence of water vapor (~thousands of ppm up to about 40,000 ppmv maximum) over the range of humidities seen in Earth’s atmosphere, as well as the orders of magnitude higher concentration of CO2 (at about 420 ppmv).
Considering all of the above scientific facts, the concentration of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere is just another fictitious “hobgoblin” of the type we have been warned about for many years:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
—H.L. Mencken
Green is the Colour of Hunger.
Perhaps the philosophy of hunger.
Hey ho: should reduce the obesity epidemic! Every cloud ……….
Maybe Trudeau and his political allies and supporters should just stop eating. They should lead by example to see how it works out.
Canada and the Netherlands limit food production. Russia limits Ukrainian grain exports. China causes chaos by letting a virus go. I’m sure commenters here can come up with examples from their own neck of the woods. Today’s political governments are no friends to “the people” they are supposed to serve.
Rumors of entire cattle herds being quietly sold off in the USA. We’ll see the impact of the fertilizer and fuel issues in 2-3 months. Spring 2023 could get interesting in the countryside
The western US has been in a prolonged drought. Selling off the herds to prevent further losses has been a long tradition in the cattle business in the marginal lands out west. Get what you can for them now versus collecting the carcasses later is a tough choice.
yes Aus is now rebuilding herds in areas that had 10yrs of drought, after the rains came
Is Bill letting all of his land go fallow?
they are supposed to
servecontrolrussia limited NOTHING it was sanctioned to make supply damn near impossible
they sent a ship out this week and everyone complained so? they dont WANT the poor fed..obviously zelensky at least doesnt
Both Biden and Trudeau display a mean-spirited vindictiveness toward people in the agricultural and energy producing states and provinces. Throughout my life I’ve seen it on display occasionally among inconsequential people, like academics, but in national leaders it is a deadly personality flaw or possibly even a sign of mental illness — Stalinesque.
Maybe even Stalinitus. Symptoms being, the constant desire to destroy anything that might challenge the plan for total control. The intelligentsia being first in line for the cull. The self appointed climate alarmist scientists can relax though, they do not count as intellectual….
Slightly off topic but should be of interest to the group. Just got this notification from Texas ERCOT. Please take note of the last line-10% of nameplate capacity.
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has issued a Conservation Appeal asking Texans and Texas businesses to voluntarily conserve electricity today, July 11, between 2-8 p.m. CT. ERCOT also issued a Watch for a projected reserve capacity shortage from 2-8 p.m. CT. At this time, ERCOT does not expect system-wide outages. Factors driving the need for this important action by customers include (i) record high electric demand, and (ii) wind generation coming in at less than 10% of its capacity.
Windmills are such a scam. In this case, a dangerous scam.
We’re doing just fine, probably due to the minimal conservation that people are taking –