Posted on 10/29/2014 3:50:06 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As worsening drought and extreme weather devastate crops, you may begin seeing global warming when you open your fridge.
According to David Lobell,deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, “The general story is that agriculture is sensitive. It’s not the end of the world; but it will be a big enough deal to be worth our concern.”
Lobell has already noticed the effect of climate change on some crops. For example, he says, yield data from corn and wheat production suggests that these two staples are already being negatively affected by the changing climate. Similarly, fruit and nuts are also showing the impact of climate change. Fruit trees require “chilling hours”, or time in cold, wintry environments, for optimum production.
Here’s a list of the foods to enjoy now – while they’re comparatively plentiful.
Corn (and the animals that eat it)
Coffee
Chocolate
Seafood
Maple syrup
Beans
Cherries
Wine grapes
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Grain and fiber crops of course involve cutting but you can also gather crops like apples.
I have no connection to farming other than that an uncle managed a west Texas ranch 50 years ago. But I enjoy reading about small scale farming, organic farming, beekeeping, farming with horsepower and so forth. There’s a great little journal if you like that sort of thing:
http://www.farmingmagazine.net/
“cauliflower reminds me of cabbage for some reason”
Both are members of the Brassica oleracea family.
they have a similar smell
From the same country that brought us Piers Morgan and George III.
If David Lobell were to actually do some honest work with his hands in agriculture, he might learn something. The article is sterile waste.
What natural, physical events might really affect agriculture:
* The magnetic field has been moving and even weakening in some areas. Unusual weather patterns may be a result.
* We’re still in an extended solar minimum and will continue to see some unusual temperature fluctuations, mostly toward cold.
* Unusually common immorality in a nation.
There will continue to be corn and wheat crops. With enough misinformation and mismanagement, the big shots might discontinue some of those crop efforts. That’s fine. Our agricultural base should be less centralized and more distributed anyway.
Refuse the propaganda from those who sponsor it in order to corner future markets.
Twilight Greenaway is managing editor of Civil Eats.
Looks like she could use a sammich.
Same idiot liberals said by 2000 we’d all be dead from starvation, that the planet couldn’t possibly support over 4 billion people.
A cook with a religious faith in Algore. How quaint.
Excellent post!
-PJ
Not to mention that production (bushels per acre) over the years has increased substantially. In the 60s a 100 bu/acre wasa bumper crop on the bestground. Now yields could be as much as 185 bu/acre. If we quit using corn to fuel cars, there should be enough to go around for food production for a very long time.
What a loon. Half of those foods will prosper under conditions of greater CO2 and warmer weather at northern latitudes. The tropical ones would only find new tropical conditions.
IF . . . there was such a thing as global warming due to human activities.
“I love brussels sprouts! As prepared properly, they are delicious.”
The best way to prepare Brussels sprouts is pitch them out...
Some lucky people have the TAS2R38 gene that reveals the taste of Brussels sprouts to be bitter no matter how they are prepared. There is no way to improve them.
Actually higher levels of CO-2 will increase crop yields.
As they already have, to the tune of roughly 20%. ...and if there is more warming, a warmer, wetter world will boost crops further.
This writer is so full of BS that this one article could provide enough fertilizer to keep most of these crops growing for the next hundred years.
True...but I don’t have an army to feed and the missus, she don’t like sprouts...
I’ve heard that substituting cabbage for the sprouts in that recipe works just as good though...
I seem to recall the Maple Syrup story being resoundingly rebuffed shortly after publishing.
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