What are Bob Stallman's alternatives to this problem? Is he a "climate change denier" or does he feel there are programs that are needed? Farm Bureau like the Soybean Association lacks foresight in dealing with not only climate change but peak oil. We have had 30 years since the oil crisis of the 1970s to deal with our fossil fuel dependance but instead ignored it, doing so has increased the atmospherical carbon to 370-390 ppm while 350 ppm is needed to keep the climate steady and the world has climbed to consume 84 million barrels of oil a day (25% of that in the USA) . Stallman's statement that cap and trade will "cap" agriculture's future ignores what "cap" oil depletion will cause, didnt we get a feel of that when oil went to $150/ba and fertilizer trough the roof? How soon we forget! The symptoms that the climate is breaking are there, the same for peak oil, "keeping the course" will not solve it anymore then reviving the financial institutes without making serious changes. Hopefully Mr Stallman has in his mind an idea of change. Funny that the CEO of Exelon (largest electrical utility in the US) believes in cap and trade but the Farm Bureau doesn't. Lets hear the Bureaus alternatives.

Is Frank Lucas's statement "America runs on oil. Why bother to change that" patriotic? Isn't it in our favor to send billions and billions to countries that not only dislike us but use those dollars to harm us? Glad 67 per cent in Oklahoma see this!

I tend to think the concern has changed from global warming to re-election. With all the B.S. and hysteria, where would one conclude where the source of claimed heat is generated. Surely not scienctific fact and history.

It is great to see our president work with other world leaders on the problem of climate change and clean energy. This is a much healthier approach then the past president. Only through cooperation can such a monumental issue be taken on and Obama is the diplomat to achieve this. Hopefully the senate will not "bow" to their corporate handlers and pass legislation that will keep us from self destruction.

Chris: This is very informative material, especially the change of heart being displayed by Representative Peterson. Do you have any insight as to why Mr. Peterson has changed his view on this? His "Do I care? No" statement is particularly perplexing. Could it be that the House is losing interest in the whole concept of climate change and "cap and trade" in light of the continued weakness in the economy? Are they beginning to see how this system of cap and trade would negatively affect the overall economy, including agriculture? Thanks for the good information.

The climate change models are bunk. Climate change modeling started with the Club of Rome in their 1974 book promoting the running out of resources too many people thesis. Computer modeling is only as good as the underlying assumptions of the model. All models fail becauce their developers fall in love with their work and all the models are simplistic projections from past data used to predict into the future. Secondly, computer models lack a track record. How in the world can world governments fall for conclusions formed by unknown scientists breaking ground in a new field. Third, who elected this group of highly educated scientists to form a world government? They are accountable to whom? Einstein used theoritical mathamatics (whatever that is) not computers to discover laws of the universe. Of course he had a high IQ. Almost half of the USA citizens say the world is cooling. The other half say it is warming. Don't these nuts have enough to argue about with abortion and gay marriage? No now the nuts want to add a third issue, global (maybe) warming.

One question! How much longer will I live with Bama pills and Bamacare

Checkoff monies are not a slush fund for government! And they would be well advised not to go there! Seems to me a good way not to get re-elected!