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Re:Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of... by win96 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @01:37AM (#20540561)
Lower yielding crops are still green, color has nothing to do with the weight produced per plant. Yield is related to physiological stress on the crop: over water a plant it stays green while the roots rot, put it in drought conditions or heat it up for slightly longer and it gets stressed; either way you're reducing the harvest yield.

Additionally if the greening is occurring in previously permafrost soils that are not very useful for farming then there is not an increase in the food produced by that green area.

Re:Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of... by romaaeterna on Saturday July 27, 2019 @09:55AM (#20542040)
World crop yields are up year on year, according to the USDA. See Table 01 World Crop Production Summary here:

https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf

Re:Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of... by win96 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:21AM (#20542404)
Interesting, although year to year is a bit of a small scale to compare. Also the first sentence mentions a drought that dropped 5% of Russian wheat from the previous month, but that left the yield 4% higher than the previous year. It's possible that the increases from higher temps offset the longer droughts in some cases. If variance in rain and temperature continue to increase there will eventually be a tipping point where yields are severely reduced.
Re:Moody’s Buys Climate Data Firm, Signaling New Scrutiny of... by romaaeterna on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:11PM (#20542651)
Well sure, there must be a tipping point somewhere, but the earth has been a lot hotter in the past than it is now, and biomass was in much greater quantity at such times.

It's glacial maximums that are really concerning to me personally. It's very unlikely that we could feed so many billions of people as we do now if we ever enter another ice age.