[Rebelbase]

Let's hear it for climate optimums!

[BBB333]

Clearly the writer is NOT the singer...

[ClearCase_guy]

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.

[aquila48]

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[rdcbn]

Temperatures have not increased significantly, but atmospheric CO2 has.

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

[Nateman]

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[bert]

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

[norwaypinesavage]

I grew up in northern Minnesota, but now live in southern Texas in the winter. There are vast rich farmlands on both sides of the Canadian border along the North Dakota and Montana borders, though it's usually too cold there to grow the very high yield crops found just farther south. The saying was often heard: Corn must be "knee-high by the Fourth (of July)" to provide good yields.

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.

[Reeses]

the media echo chamber, including Google News searches for “climate change” placing the Politico articles at the top of search results.

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.

[FLT-bird]

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?

[indthkr]

- Better farm yields, more food for the people.

- More food for the people, more human activity (including more humans).

…..hey there is a correlation between a warmer climate and human activity.

Or, we could just switch the axes on the chart and make it look like the humans actually made the climate get warmer. What a great scam we could start!

[goldstategop]

OMG... Oh noes - you mean we’re not gonna die in ten years???

[Psalm 73]

Plants LOVE CO2 - more Co2, better producing plants - vegans should love Global Warming, too.

[Vince Ferrer]

The best example of what increasing the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will do for the Earth is the Nebraska Sandhills.

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.

[P.O.E.]

It’s a growing problem.