And more O2. They always neglect that.
Posted on 01/17/2020 5:57:01 AM PST by Rebelbase
U.S. and global crop production continue to set new records, even as climate activists ramp up a campaign to convince people that climate change is decimating crop production and forcing farmers out of business.
A prominent propaganda campaign is being presented by Politico. Politico in October published an article titled, “‘I’m standing right here in the middle of climate change’: How USDA is failing farmers.” On December 9, Politico followed up with an article titled, “How a closed-door meeting shows farmers are waking up on climate change.” The October article claimed “American farmers are reeling” from extreme weather caused by climate change. The article also complained that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is not devoting more money toward climate change programs. The December article asserted horrible “destruction wrought by catastrophic weather this year.” The article placed the blame on climate change and then trumpeted efforts to change government agriculture policy to focus on climate change.
The Politico articles generated substantial attention from the media echo chamber, including Google News searches for “climate change” placing the Politico articles at the top of search results. Unfortunately for climate activists – but fortunately for farmers and the rest of us – the climate change crop scare is pure fiction.
Presenting crop data collected by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Global Economy website documents that U.S. crop yields are enjoying excellent short-term, mid-term, and long-term growth, with new records being set almost every year. According to the USDA publication, “Crop Production Historical Track Records,” the past three years produced the three highest U.S. wheat yields per acre in history. The past five years produced the five highest U.S. corn yields and the five highest soybean yields per acre in history. U.S. and global crop production are a story of steady growth and almost yearly new records as the Earth modestly warms.
Even with the “catastrophic weather this year,” the USDA projects this year’s corn, soybean, and wheat yields to each be among the top six years all-time. Also, much of the problematic “catastrophic weather” occurred as part of early-spring snowstorms and late-fall snowstorms, which will continue to become less frequent and severe with ongoing modest warming.
At the global level, the UN Food and Agriculture’s “World Food Situation” website documents the same strong, consistent crop growth globally, with new records being set virtually every year.
The UN global crop production data is particularly helpful getting to the bottom of claims that climate change is a major factor in people attempting to enter the United States from Central America. NBC News, for example, published a July 2019 article titled, “Central America’s choice: Pray for rain or migrate.” The subtitle read, “Ravaged by drought, farmers in rural Honduras and Guatemala live on the edge of hunger.” The article placed the blame for drought, crop failures, and resultant migration on global warming.
UN Food and Agriculture data, however, show Honduras and Guatemala are enjoying long-term growth in crop yields per acre, with record crop yields being set throughout the past decade. The same holds true for Mexico and nearly every other country in Central America.
Ultimately, more atmospheric carbon dioxide has the same beneficial impact on farm production as it does in greenhouse growing facilities. Also, warmer temperatures bring longer growing seasons and fewer devastating frost events. U.S., Honduran, Guatemalan, and global crop data show that climate activists are telling tall tales when they assert that climate change is causing global or regional crop devastation. The proof is in the objective crop production data.
Clearly the writer is NOT the singer...
The Soviet Union had poor wheat harvests between 1979 and 1989. Bad weather, you know.
Today we have wonderful harvests. But with enough hysteria about the climate, we can bring back communism and then we can all enjoy poor harvests again.
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If you look back in periods of highly elevated CO2, what the fossils record suggests is very high CO2 combined with temperate conditions gave rise to massive increases in plant growth. The plants were the predominantly the type of plants associated with temperate conditions and were not the sort of plants typical of very hot regions which undercuts the claims of global warming from CO2
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The article indicates the problem. That problem is variation, climate will change to adversely affected crop production
The lesson is that part of the surplus must be preserved for when there is a deficit
Down here in Texas, vast fields of corn are often also "knee high by the Fourth", though it's the fourth of March. High yield corn grows across the breadth of the US, over a range of more than 25 degrees F in annual average temperatures. The so-called "tipping point" of 1.5 degrees C - a point that the Warmist Cult has already said we have reached - will simply create MORE rich farmland in the US and Canada. And the increased fertilization from increasing CO2 toward optimization will further increase the yields everywhere.
I FEEL good, like I know that I would now.....
Most creative writing these days is directed at global warming, and it is 100% negative. It must now be a required assignment in creative writing/fiction/propaganda/journalism college classes. Statistically the positives and negatives should fall roughly 50/50, not 0/100. Readers can too easily detect they're being had.
He’s an elderly gent ... Old Taylor.
Wanna expose Gaia Worshipping watermelons for the propagandists they are? Just casually ask “So.....what are the benefits of global warming?”
First, they’ll sit there dumbstruck for a minute. Then they’ll insist there are no benefits.
Ah, but that simply is not so. The planet is greener than it was as increased atmospheric carbon feeds additional plant growth. It also leads to increased crop yields. It also makes land which is marginally productive due to the cold (Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, Scandinavia) far more productive. In the past, warmer weather has been associated with human flourishing for the reasons stated above.
So why do we only ever hear that it will all be doom and gloom if the temperature warms up even a little bit?
Just drop them in the north or south pole vicinity and let them take up, at the very least, subsistence farming. Should be easy without all that yucky warming stuff. Seems like some people can fool some of the people all of the time.
OMG... Oh noes - you mean we’re not gonna die in ten years???
Plants LOVE CO2 - more Co2, better producing plants - vegans should love Global Warming, too.
And more O2. They always neglect that.
... creative writing these days is directed at global warming, and it is 100% negative. It must now be a required assignment in creative writing/fiction/propaganda/journalism college classes.
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There is even a subgenre of dystopian, apocalyptic fiction called ‘cli-fi’, for ‘climate fiction’. The results are the usual mixed bag, depending on how close to the truth they are.
As for the content marketing market: these writers game the goog algorithm by including key words, special characters, a number or percentage and keeping within a set number of characters in the headline. Much of the content is noticeably recycled. Any subheadings are derived from popular searches, making the entire process even more of a closed loop. The only goal is to rank in the first three search returns (below the paid ads).
Politico is rarely news and more often content marketing.
This covers nearly a quarter of Nebraska. The sand hills are sand dunes which have been covered with grasses. During the last ice age, when carbon dioxide concentrations were down to 180 ppm, this region could not support much plant life at all. No plants equal no roots to hold down the soil, so the sand dunes formed.
Since the last ice age we have warmed up and the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased. This has allowed plants to cover the sand dunes. Now the desert is a rich grassland.
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