A Farm Journalist Tells Farmers What They'd Rather Not Hear About Climate Change
Journalist Chris Clayton writes for an audience filled with climate skeptics: farmers and leaders of agricultural businesses. He's telling them that a changing climate will disrupt their lives.
When President Trump announced this week that he was taking the United States out of the Paris climate agreement, there were swift and vocal reactions from many industries --- but most of the organizations that represent American agriculture were silent.
Chris Clayton, though, a veteran reporter at one of the leading farm publications in the country, took to Twitter:
"Since today seems all about doing something that goes against the facts and the world, I'm just saying, Cavs in seven. #NBAFinals"
Clayton is a Midwesterner and agricultural policy editor at DTN/The Progressive Farmer. He's also the author of , which describes in detail how farmers and farm lobbyists have
