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South Sudanese women walk to the site of a UN’s World Food Program (WFP) food aid air drop near the town of Katdalok, in Jonglei State of South Sudan July 30, 2018.
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Climate taxes could fuel food insecurity

The impact could easily outstrip the effects of a changing climate itself

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One of the reasons climate mitigation systems like carbon taxes are touted is the growing risk of food insecurity in a changing climate. But new research suggests the policies themselves, if they’re not carefully designed, could fuel even more widespread hunger and food insecurity than the direct impacts of climate change. Those are the findings
James Battershill, general manager for Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP).
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Manitoba’s consultations begin on pricing for carbon emissions

KAP members will be looking at what an offset market means for agriculture

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The provincial government has released a consultation document on devising a new output-based pricing system (OBPS) related to carbon emissions. The OBPS system, like a cap-and-trade program, will apply to large-scale industrial facilities with annual emissions of 50,000 tonnes or more of carbon dioxide equivalent, requiring these facilities to meet specific emission targets, or pay
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MacAulay chided for asserting farmers support carbon tax

Farm groups say they’re concerned about climate change and other environmental issues, but that doesn’t mean they support this policy

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Despite widespread criticisms of the federal carbon tax from farm groups, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay has told both senators and MPs that farmers back it. “Farmers fully support it,” MacAulay told the Senate. “I can assure you the farmers are fully on our side and have always helped in this area.” The minister’s answer blended
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Opinion: Age no guarantee of wisdom

We’re apparently no smarter than the ancient critics of what we now accept as established science

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In May 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, a book that used mathematics and astronomy to postulate how the earth and the then-known planets rotated on their own axis as they orbited a stationary sun. Within days of its printing, however, Copernicus died. His theory of “heliocentrism,” the first scientific
A changing climate is going to mean new challenges for Canadian farmers, like these tornado-damaged grain bins, and a new section of the Climate Atlas of Canada 
aims to show farmers the path forward.
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Climate atlas unveils new section for farmers

New platform projects future frost-free days, average temperatures and 
other data for farm management decision-making

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The Climate Atlas of Canada, developed to show how climate change will specifically affect the country’s regions, now has a section aimed specifically at farmers. This is the free, online resource created by the Prairie Climate Centre in Winnipeg to combine climatology and scientific data to showing the future climate, depending on progress made —
The 100th meridian west (solid line) has long been considered the divide between the relatively moist eastern United States, and the more arid West. Climate change may already have started shifting the divide eastward 
(dotted line).
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Where the Great Plains began?

The 100th meridian may not mark the start of the Prairies much longer

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It’s always been a point of pride in Manitoba that the Prairies begin here, at the 100th meridian. That north-south line cleaves North America in two from Mexico to Manitoba, as first noted in 1978 by explorer John Wesley Powell, who called it the boundary between the humid East and the arid West. Now scientists
Canada’s auditors general say the federal government and provinces are behind their own targets to address the cause and effects of climate change.
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Canada lagging on climate change action: report

Emission reduction plans lack details and are late in addressing the issue

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Canada’s federal and provincial governments are lagging far behind their targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and are woefully unprepared for climate change, a new report says. Canada is expected to miss its 2020 emissions reduction target by 20 per cent and is also likely to miss its 2030 target without a major effort, says
Manitoba Beef Producers still seeking carbon details
Livestock, Local news

Manitoba Beef Producers still seeking carbon details

The provincial budget still leaves key issues undefined, the producer group says

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Manitoba Beef Producers is giving the provincial budget a passing grade, but has a few reservations. General manager Brian Lemon says the group understands the province’s choice to design a provincial carbon tax ahead of the federal government imposing one, but added even with the budget being dropped, there’s still plenty of questions. “I don’t
Manitoba municipalities say carbon tax dollars should flow to them to help them prepare for climate extremes.
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Municipalities should get carbon tax revenue: poll

Majority says local communities should get between one-half 
and all of the funds raised by the province

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Most Manitobans say carbon tax revenue should go to municipalities — with rural residents slightly more convinced than Winnipeggers at least half should be returned to them. Those are poll results shared by the Association of Manitoba Municipalities (AMM) last week. The AMM commissioned Probe Research to ask 1,000 Manitobans how much, if any, of

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