Claim: Climate Change will Cause a Global Corn Crop Failure

Let me double-down, Donald Trump. Sooner or later the Ogalalla Aquifer is going to be excessively depleted and the greatest grain-growing region in the world, the US Midwest, is going to suffer greatly reduced agricultural production.

Canada has excess water (not sure how much – probably lots). It is part of OUR national far-left religion that WE WILL SHIP NO WATER TO THE USA.

But let’s be sensible – to Hell with the leftists – they are scoundrels and/or imbeciles anyway.

If you agree to use Canadian water wisely – to recharge the Ogalalla aquifer, cease foolish and wasteful biofuels production, and use the food to feed the world’s hungry, we can do a deal.

What do you say? Let’s do lunch! 🙂

Hi Grey,

We know a lot about aquifer recharge from the oil industry. We have to purify and chlorinate the water first before injection – otherwise we get bacterial growth around the injector wells and the aquifer is also contaminated.

Spring flooding in the northern Midwest grain-growing states is a big and frequent problem. Not sure if the idea is practical, but it is interesting. I wonder if the volumes work.

Hello J Parsons.

I agree with your thoughts – as further expanded in this post about the green movement:

“These people are not pro-environment – many of their programs such as clear-cutting of tropical rainforests to grow biofuels, draining the Ogallala aquifer to grow corn for fuel ethanol, clear-cutting eastern US forests to provide wood pellets for British power plants, erecting huge wind power towers to slice up birds and bats, etc are ALL anti-environmental.”

Regards, Allan

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/06/27/100-renewables-by-2035-surprise-new-york-primary-winner-takes-on-democrat-climate-moderates/#comment-2389571

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The political left has many causes that are utterly foolish and destructive to society and the environment – global warming alarmism and green energy scams are prime examples.
Witness the energy idiocy of recent politicians in Western Europe, Britain, Canada, the USA, and Australia. These idiots have squandered tens of trillions of dollars of scarce global resources on costly, intermittent green energy schemes that are not green and produce little useful (dispatchable) energy, all to save us from imaginary catastrophic global warming – all in a (probably) cooling world.

Fully 85% of global primary energy is still generated from fossil fuels – oil, natural gas and coal. The remainder is largely generated from nuclear and hydro. Hardly any useful energy is generated from green sources, despite tens of trillions in wasted subsidies – enough money to buy too many corrupt politicians, civil servants and academics.

Anti fossil fuels, anti pipelines, anti fracking, anti oilsands, pro green energy, etc. etc. – these scams are all promoted by the same people, all deliberately harming our economies while wrapping themselves in the cloak of phony environmentalism.

These people are not pro-environment – many of their programs such as clear-cutting of tropical rainforests to grow biofuels, draining the Ogallala aquifer to grow corn for fuel ethanol, clear-cutting eastern US forests to provide wood pellets for British power plants, erecting huge wind power towers to slice up birds and bats, etc are ALL anti-environmental.

The popularity of global warming mania in the media and the general population is explained by the Dunning Kruger effect, as defined below.

THE DUNNING–KRUGER EFFECT – DEFINED

By Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the metacognitive inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability; without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[1] On the other hand, people of high ability incorrectly assume that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for other people.[2]

As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, “the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.”[1]

By George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyifuNC0MT8

“Think of how stupid the average person is; and then realize half of them are stupider than that!”

Here in Nashville we are on about a 4 day cycle on cutting the lawn.
Lots of heat and rain this year.

Accurately stated, ЯΞ√ΩLUT↑☼N!

Starting thousands of years ago, mankind noticed and propagated mutations, cross bred for desired traits, sorted harvests for vigor, adaptability, increased harvest, terrain tolerances, etc. etc.

Latitude mentions Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde cliff dwellers, who raised corn on the mesa tops at 6,000-8000 feet.
These ancient farmers obtained elsewhere, corn that tolerated summer’s dry conditions well, but more remarkably, this variety of corn grew an unusually long tap root. A tap root that reached moisture levels not obtainable at the surface.

All of man’s food crops, beneficial or even just interesting mutations have been identified and propagated.
e.g. Red Delicious apples are a well known variety. Golden delicious apples are a sport; i.e. a mutation that was observed, isolated and specifically propagated.

e.g. 2; every time one considers a tomato, they should wonder how mankind bred and identified a food crop from a nightshade family plant that was normally poisonous. Then again, that plant family, Solanaceae, supplies other food crops bred from dangerous plants.