Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
by andrewstuart on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:12PM
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You're giving historical stats.
These are effectively irrelevant because they are from the time when the climate was still largely the same as it has been for hundreds of years.
The question is - what will be the yields in a world in which the seasons are disrupted?
Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
by chrisco255 on Monday July 29, 2019 @03:13PM
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The seasons won't be disrupted mate. The seasons depend on the tilt of the Earth's axis as it rotates around the sun. The worst case scenario we're looking at is a shift in the fertile zones that crops can thrive in. That shift is far easier to deal with in a global warming scenario than a global cooling scenario. If we were to be entering an ice age, crop yields would go down and food supply would shrink. As it stands, warmth and CO2 are good for plants, so it's not likely to damage food supply at all.
Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
by loup-vaillant on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:02PM
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> Yeah...hmm, not seeing a reason to panic about food supply.
Food supply go up for now. Will they still go up after Peak Oil? Peak Energy?
Rice yields are up 40% since 1988: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl...
Corn's up 60%: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl...
Wheat is up 48% since '88: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/wwyld....
Cattle inventory looks steady: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Cattle/inv.php
Yeah...hmm, not seeing a reason to panic about food supply.