date:Jun 09, 2013
It wasnt as visually dramatic as a superstorm making landfall in New York City or a wildfire tearing through the carcasses of water-starved trees, but hearing U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack address the ways climate change will drastically impact farming in the not-to-distant future is pretty chilling, frankly.
Im not here today to give a scientific lecture on climate change. Im here to tell you what were seeing on the ground, he said in a speech hosted by the National Press Club y