Earlier in the week this article was published, members of the Badlands Journal editorial board were in a meeting on water issues that included a number of prominent Merced County farmers. A secret ballot vote was taken on the effects of global warming on water issues received an unusually low vote because, it appeared, farmers in the room voted against the very existence of global warming.

On reading this article later in the week, Merced-based environmentalist Lydia Miller, president of the San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center, who had attended the water meeting, said of the farmers complaining now about climate change, "The big damn babies!"

Others, familiar with the work of the Center for Investigative Reporting, regarded it as just as "investigative" as their blundering, publicity seeking "investigation" of who car bombed Don Bowles in Phoenix.

Badlands Journal editorial board

9-28-12
Merced Sun-Star
Farmers feel early effects of changes in climate
By MARK SCHAPIRO - Center for Investigative Reporting
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/09/28/2563573/farmers-feel-early-effec...

Ten miles outside of Modesto, in the farming town of Hughson off Highway 99, the Duarte Nursery is at the front line of dramatic changes under way in California's immense agriculture industry.