“I'm not a climate change guy, but ”: Farmers reckon with new reality

Watch the video as well. What's fascinating is that the records of the army corps show climate change, but the interviewee cannot "speculate." Similarly, many of the farmers see "climate change" but struggle to say those words, even as some start adapting.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-reckoning-in-the-heartland-cbsn-originals/

>Walking over soggy lifeless crops, Brett Adams, a fifth generation Nebraska farmer, paused to catch his breath. Under the dark grey clouds of the Midwestern spring, he was forced to come to terms with an alarming reality: 80% of his farmland was under freezing floodwater.

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>The floods damaged public infrastructure and led to the loss of crops, livestock and the evacuation of thousands of people from their homes. Nebraska's governor said that in that state alone alone, the cost of damage has surpassed $1.3 billion.

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>Modern agriculture and food production aren't just impacted by climate change — they also contribute to it. According to the EPA, more than 8% of all U.S greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 came from the agriculture sector.

>While some farmers in conservative parts of the country may be reluctant to define increasingly extreme weather as climate change, Christensen says with each storm, more attitudes start to change.