CHICAGO — More than 40 scientists with expertise in climate, agriculture, soil, and entomological science today sent a letter to American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman requesting a meeting to discuss his group’s ‘inaccurate and marginalized’ position on global warming. The Farm Bureau maintains that ‘there is no generally agreed upon scientific assessment on…carbon emissions from human activities, their impact on past decades of warming, or how they will affect future climate changes.’ According to the scientists’ letter, that assertion ignores the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change, a problem that puts Farm Bureau members at risk. ‘As scientists concerned about the grave risks that climate change poses to the world and U.S. agriculture,’ the letter states, ‘we are disappointed that the American Farm Bureau has chosen to officially deny the existence of human-caused climate change when the evidence of it has never been clearer.’ The letter then points out the fact that scientific institutions worldwide have concluded that human activity is causing global warming. For example, 18 U.S. science organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Meteorological Society and the Crop Sciences Society of America, recently issued a statement declaring […]