Posted on 02/16/2015 5:20:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
San José (United States) (AFP) - The acceleration in climate change and its impact on agricultural production means that profound societal changes will be needed in coming decades to feed the world's growing population, researchers at an annual science conference said.
According to scientists, food production will have to be doubled over the next 35 years to feed a global population of nine billion people in 2050, compared with seven billion today.
Feeding the world "is going to take some changes in terms of minimizing climate disruption," said Jerry Hatfield, director at the National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment.
Rainfall volatility, increased drought and rising temperatures affect crop yields, which means action must be taken, he said during a talk Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
"If you look at production from 2000 to 2050, we basically have to produce the same amount of food as we produced in the last 500 years" he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
There go those scientists again.
I’m calling BS on this simply for the fact that farmers are raising corn to make ethanol to kill our engines with. If there is a food shortage, use that corn to help instead of wasting it in cars.
Until that changes, do not talk to me about food shortages.
farmers are raising corn to make ethanol
Yes, that is because of Gore-Bull Warming; so you prove the headline right in the twisted little minds of the liberals.
No shortage of lying, leftist “scientists”
Well, shazzam! How lucky we are! There’s just enough time for totalitarianism to save us from ourselves. A few more years and it would have been too late!
F-n retards.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Say those who want profound societal changes anyway.
How about using corn to make ethanol instead of into food products for people. thus renewable fuel source will help starve the world’s population.
“The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.”
“The Population Bomb” By Paul R. Ehrlich 1968.
Of course if you don’t buy the “big lie” of the first paragraph then the rest of the article is gibberish.
My son in law works in R&D and prototyping for John Deere. Deere is an exceptionally well run company and if climate change was going to effect agriculture they would be making changes accordingly. They are not.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science
Advocacy[edit]
Since 2006, AAAS’s CEO Dr. Alan I. Leshner has published many op-ed articles discussing how many people integrate science and religion in their lives. He has opposed the insertion of non-scientific content, such as creationism or intelligent design, into the scientific curriculum of schools.[6][7][8][9]
In December 2006, the AAAS adopted an official statement on climate change, in which they stated, “The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society....The pace of change and the evidence of harm have increased markedly over the last five years. The time to control greenhouse gas emissions is now.”[10]
In February 2007, the AAAS used satellite images to document human rights abuses in Burma.[11] The next year, AAAS launched the Center for Science Diplomacy to advance both science and the broader relationships among partner countries, by promoting science diplomacy and international scientific cooperation.[12]
In his 2008 article [13] about the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), in Kenora District, Ontario, Canada, published in Science, Erik Stokstad described the ELA’s “extreme science.”[13] The ELA project manipulated whole lake ecosystems for forty years, collecting long-term records for climatology, hydrology, and limnology based on whole-ecosystem experiments that address key issues in water management.[14] The ELA influenced public policy in water management in Canada, the USA and Europe,[13] but by 2008 was attempting to convince federal[which?] funders to focus on climate-change research. The decision to abruptly defund the ELA was widely condemned by the Canadian and international scientific community.[13][15] The scientific journal Nature in an article entitled, The Death of Evidence, described the decision as “disturbing”, and said that it “is hard to believe that finance is the true reason” for the closure.[16]
In 2012, AAAS published op-eds,[17] held events on Capitol Hill and released analyses of the U.S. federal research-and-development budget, to warn that a budget sequestration would have severe consequences for scientific progress.[18][19
Bull Gore.
Eat the climate scientists. Two for one.
It’s not hampering food production as much as not having Keystone (using all the rail to haul oil instead of grains)and converting corn into Ethanol production
” Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?”
I saved this the last time you posted it.
Great little facts for the cerebrally-challenged : )
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?”
Exactly.
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