{"id":7615,"date":"2016-07-04T07:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2016-07-04T07:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T11:38:12","slug":"the-paradox-of-american-farmers-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2016\/07\/the-paradox-of-american-farmers-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Paradox of American Farmers and Climate Change&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fortune<\/em> magazine posted an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2016\/06\/29\/monsanto-farmers-climate-change\/\">article<\/a> late in June\u00a0on the complicated relationship between farmers and their acceptance of climate change. \u00a0<em>Fortune<\/em> points out that farmers are among the most likely to be affected by climate change, and yet are one of the least likely groups to accept the scientific evidence for it, even though they accept evidence of the safety of GMO crops from scientists with a similar degree of certainty. \u00a0The article discusses Monsanto&#8217;s work to help teach farmers to adapt to a changing climate while improving their bottom line. \u00a0I think it is an interesting discussion about the challenges that extension agents and scientists have in communicating science to the public, particularly when politics gets involved.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3051\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3051\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/ethredge-wheat-harvest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3051\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/ethredge-wheat-harvest-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Rome Ethredge, Seminole Crop E News\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/ethredge-wheat-harvest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/ethredge-wheat-harvest-208x138.jpg 208w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/05\/ethredge-wheat-harvest.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3051\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Rome Ethredge, Seminole Crop E News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune magazine posted an interesting article late in June\u00a0on the complicated relationship between farmers and their acceptance of climate change. \u00a0Fortune points out that farmers are among the most likely to be affected by climate change, and yet are one of the least likely groups to accept the scientific evidence for it, even though they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7617,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/7617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}