This sentence…
“One of the panel’s most striking new conclusions is that rising temperatures are already depressing crop yields, including those of corn and wheat. In the coming decades, farmers may not be able to grow enough food to meet the demands of the world’s growing population, it warns.”
…is in this LA Times story by babout the latest IPCC report which has so much gloom and doom in it, one of the lead authors, Dr. Richard Tol, asked his name to be taken off of it for that very reason.
Problem is, the agricultural data doesn’t match the LATimes/IPCC claim, see for yourself:
Source: USDA data at http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/ plotted by Dr. Roy Spencer.
Not only is the LATimes/IPCC claim about agriculture false for the world, but also the USA:
Source: USDA Data here compiled by Dr. Mark J. Perry at the Carpe Diem blog.
In fact, U.S. Corn Yields Have Increased Six Times Since the 1930s and Are Estimated to Double By 2030 according to Perry.
Note that temperatures in the US Corn belt aren’t rising, but models are, and as we know, the IPCC prefers model output over reality.
Source: USHCN data from NOAA, CMIP5 model data plotted by Dr. Roy Spencer
Why is it that checking such simple facts are left to bloggers and independent thinkers like Roy Spencer, instead of “professional” journalists like ?
Maybe he’s just too lazy to check facts like this? Or, is it belief mixed with incompetence?
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Facts? FACTS !!
We don’t need no stinkin’ facts. We are Warmongering Alarmists and can make up any crap we feel is the most hysterical.
When will you evil Deniers figure out the danger from Glowball Warming.
Boy, today has been a deluge of April Foolery. I wish it were actual April Foolery, but unfortunately the internet is clogged with Klimate Kooks all blathering their recited meme verses, in response to the ridiculously-timed IPCC release. I feel ill.
Here are some facts that do meet the claims: Inhofe, Defense budget used by Obama as his climate change sludge fund. US West Coast no longer defended against incoming missiles from Russia and Iran, defense capability seriously undermined by scrapping perfectly functioning systems but hey, we now have solar panels.: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/04/01/Inhofe-Warns-Georgia-Moldova-Next-for-Russia-Attacks-Obama-for-Eliminating-Weapon-Systems
Impeach the hack.
Headline typo? “gaught”? “caught”, maybe.
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Journalists need to be the first with a story nowadays, if they took 5 minutes to fact check the story, someone else would break it before them thanks to instant news on the internet. They also have huge work load, pressured to get as many stories out with little time to spend on each one, so often they are a ‘copy n paste’ story. Its not the journalists fault completely, its the mad news media system we now have and the system needs fixing. Blogs like this do much better as those who post have time to do a little research first and dont have to do 50 blog posts in 8 hours.
The sad fact is most journalists are now just copy pasters, which has created the recent trend of ‘fake’ stories inserted into AP and Routers by environmentalists or univerties wanting media attention etc… and when your looking for huge volumes of content and there is a big PR system pushing their alarmism it will inevitably be published.
You’re letting facts get in the way of feelings….
The facts are boring and don’t sell newspapers, but scary unfounded stories sell newspapers.
It is probably no more than this. Also, the hack was too lazy to check the facts, or so uninformed and pig ignorant that he did not know where to look.
Thanks to Norman Borlaug.
Tony Barboza is a name I expect to see on the back of a boxer’s robe. Sounds like his aspirations significantlly exceed his mental abilities. “Hey, with haf a brain, I coulda’ been somebody.”
Facts? We don’t need no stinking FACTS!
The difference between a good reporter and a poor one is this: a good reporter checks the facts; a poor one doesn’t. It seems as though the AGW movement, if we can call it that, survives and thrives because the quality of good media reporting has dropped considerably.
Maybe he’s just too lazy to check facts like this? Or, is it belief mixed with incompetence?
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Maybe it’s willing complicity.
CO2 causes food abundance. CAGW believer then counteract this buy coming up with the absurd idea that it’s a good idea to burn food as fuel.
Maybe we could convince Lord Mockton to write a post that again uses the graph showing both CO2 vs Time and Temperature Anomaly vs Time with the thirteen plus year pause while CO2 continues to climb. Further in the post would be a second graph showing Agriculture Yields vs Time and CO2 vs Time, illustrating the correlation between CO2 concentration growth and Agriculture Yields. In other words CO2 equals Plant Food. QED via the Correlation yields Causation logic of the Alarmists.
April 1st ?
Will the refutation of their just plain wrong claims be allowed in their letters to the editor?
And from the weather is not climate file, we have these sorts of cold/wet stories from much of the US ag-sector:
http://www.newbernsj.com/news/local/cold-wet-winter-delays-planting-season-1.297124
Craven County, North Carolina is near the Atlantic Coast, mid-way N to S in the State.
The cynical journalist has given way to the mindless puppet, dutifully regurgitating snippets of press releases … research and thought are processes too demanding of these puppets … today the best journalists are those denigrated the most – the blogger, hunters of the sacred cows.
Corn is for you car not for poor kids breakfast.
Corn prices should be high don’ t ya know, its for the planet.
Cults get worse and worse then they self destruct.
“Maybe he’s just too lazy to check facts like this? Or, is it belief mixed with incompetence?”
The third possibility is a willingness to ‘shade the truth’ sufficiently to create a perception of alarm…. and sell more subscriptions to secure his paycheck.
I found it!…
Here’s the place where crop yeilds are depressed….
http://binged.it/1dOzaEU
White House sources who required to be not named told U.S. not to drive our cars cause it will burn the planet total in 7 more years and cause the temp.’s to rise 7 degrees. (AP)
put it on the wire, it will be the truth,,,, cause we say so
Tony Barboza gets caught …… .
At first I thought “Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy …. /sarc”
But then I though, that isn’t fair, the poor guy has just been duped like so many others. Like so many other MSM workers, he has a family to feed and probably a boss who won’t let him do much digging for facts.
“””””…..Col Mosby says:
April 1, 2014 at 11:39 am
Tony Barboza is a name I expect to see on the back of a boxer’s robe. Sounds like his aspirations significantlly exceed his mental abilities. “Hey, with haf a brain, I coulda’ been somebody.”…..”””””
Well it would be more appropriate on an MMA robe; Mixed Misrepresentation Arts.
Besides, in MMA, somebody mean, would get to smash that fool’s empty head on the floor, until the ref stepped in to rescue him. Or he would be forced to tap out of some guillotine strangle.
I don’t believe in violence, but squishing a watermelon, really isn’t violence.
Tony did his job. He spread fear so the Progressive boot can be pressed against our necks.