Growing food has never been better. The past five years have all been record setting abdudances.
Fortified By Global Warming, Crop Production Keeps Breaking Records - Forbes
is that the James Taylor... resident in-house lawyer for the Heartland Institute? Why... yes it is! :mrgreen: In any case, the guy offers up USDA links in your linked reference... that USDA, that U.S. Department of Agriculture, is one of the signatory stakeholders in the USGCRP
From the
U.S. Global Change Research Program's (
USGCRP) latest iterative (2014) National Climate Assessment report:
- Many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change induced stresses.
- Climate disruptions to agricultural production have increased in the recent past and are projected to increase further over the next 25 years. By mid-century and beyond, these impacts will be increasingly negative on most crops and livestock.
- The rising incidence of weather extremes will have increasingly negative impacts on crop and livestock productivity because critical thresholds are already being exceeded.
- Current loss and degradation of critical agricultural soil and water assets by increasing extremes in precipitation will continue to challenge both rain-fed and irrigated agriculture unless innovative conservation methods are implemented.
- Climate change is increasing the vulnerability of forests to ecosystem change and tree mortality through fire, insect infestations, drought, and disease outbreaks. Western U.S. forests are particularly vulnerable to increased wildfire and insect outbreaks; eastern forests have smaller disturbances but could be more sensitive to periodic drought.
- U.S. forests currently absorb about 13% of all carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by fossil fuel burning in the U.S. Climate change, combined with current societal trends regarding land use and forest management, is projected to reduce forest CO2 uptake.
- Climate change impacts on ecosystems reduce their ability to improve water quality and regulate water flows.
- Climate change combined with other stressors is overwhelming the capacity of ecosystems to buffer the impacts from extreme events like fires, floods, and storms.
- Land- and sea-scapes are changing rapidly and species, including many iconic species, may disappear from regions where they have been prevalent, changing some regions so much that their mix of plant and animal life will become almost unrecognizable.
- Timing of critical biological events, such as spring bud burst, emergence from overwintering, and the start of migrations, will shift, leading to important impacts on species and habitats.
From the latest IPCC AR5 reports:
You be well with your denial of reality... Really, keep pretending if it helps you sleep at night
you need to break free from the hold of your favoured denier blogs... those fake "blog scientists" are messin' with ya! Nothing says it clearer than your reaction to this OP and your repeated insistence that the referenced single scientist/single paper holds the "facts"... the "death blow facts". Ah yes, another denier's alignment... your alignment... with the "SINGLE PAPER SYNDROME"... one without any formal peer-response... one the paper's own author cautions over premature judgement/extension upon. That's YOUR REALITY! :mrgreen: