Guest Post by David Middleton First it was wheat and now it’s coffee. What’s next? Bacon & eggs? This is nothing but alarmist nonsense… Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens…
Category: Agriculture
The UK Growing Season
Guest post by David Archibald Next week I am hosting a dinner party at which a Fellow of the Royal Society will be guest of honour – one of the…
Do Increasing Temperatures Lower Crop Yields?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I keep reading these claims that we’re all going to starve because of global warming. People say it’s going to be the death of agriculture,…
We Had To Pave The Environment In Order To Save It
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Trading food for fuel, in a world where high food prices already affect the poor, has always seemed like a bad idea to me. If…
Neutrons and the 1970s cooling period
Note: the original title Solar Neutrons and the 1970s cooling period was unintentionally misleading as Dr. Svalgaard points out in comments: What produces Solar Neutrons? the title of the post…
Masters, McKibben, and droughting Thomases
Every once in awhile you see something in the “it’s worse than we thought” meme that deserves some clarification for those that want to look at all the data, rather…
More on Mark Hertsgaard's ridiculous claims – The Goldilocks Crop and the Impending Extinction of Pasta
Guest Post by David Middleton Yesterday, WUWT covered the issue from one angle, and blew Hertsgaard’s riduculous claims out of the water. Today, here’s another independently arrived at conclusion that…
Climate Craziness of the Week – Mark Hertsgaard embarrasses himself with 'The End of Pasta'
Global warming kills spaghetti crop Sigh, “The End of Pasta?” reads more like “The end of journalism” Some days, there appears such blatant stupidity in the MSM, you wonder if…
Global warming to kill fruit flies – and this is a bad thing?
Evolutionary straitjacket means flies can’t take the heat Many species of fruit fly lack the ability to adapt effectively to predicted increases in global temperatures and may face extinction in…
Unclear on the concept: 'Organic food could help save the world from global warming'
Some blowback about last weeks announcement that Stanford researchers find little difference between organically farmed food and commercially grown food leave a bit to be desired in the logic department.…
NYT blames food crisis on "climate change," hides plea to reduce government mandated burning of food for fuel
Even the UN is not biased enough towards climate alarmism for the New York Times, which yesterday bowdlerized a joint statement on the present food crisis from three UN food…
Let there be corn! Reality check on the 2012 drought and corn yields in relation to droughts of the past
There’s a lot of hype out there regarding the drought and its potential effects on crops. Predictions range from increased food prices to dustbowlification”, a term coined by “Joe Romm.…
Krugman's corny caper
Tom Nelson observes some interesting and inconvenient data to rebut The Guardian’s Susanne Goldenberg and Paul Krugman of the New York Times: For warmists trying to convince us that carbon…
Burning Food in Cars – an ‘anti-human ethos’
Letter to the Editor Watts Up With That? 23rd July 2012 Nothing illustrates the anti-human ethos of the Greens better than their support for “biofuels”. That trendy name cannot hide…
Another mooooot press release – cows and climate change
From the University of Washington, another press release making gloom where there is none. I had to laugh at this statement: The authors also found that dairy farmers are already…
USGS models ‘Climate-change-induced aridity’ in California
More climate modeling from a non-climate organization, I hope they still track Earthquakes. News Release Climate Change and Water Supply in California’s Central Valley: A Model Approach SAN DIEGO, Calif.…
Crying over the carbon footprint of spilt milk
From the University of Edinburgh via Eurekalert, just scratching the surface of this press release suggests something’s gone sour, the numbers they cite don’t make for much concern in the…
Rainfall has a greater impact than rising temperature on crop yields
From Wiley-Blackwell Is rainfall a greater threat to China’s agriculture than warming? Impact of climate change on China explored in new plant science virtual issue New research into the impact…
Wild about grains and global warming
This makes me wonder, since most of the world’s food supply is from cultivated grains, as opposed to wild ones, and since yields have been increasing thanks to selective breeding…
Looks like "global warming" is off the hook for honeybee deaths
Back in 2007, Wired Magazine mused: It’s only slightly less ridiculous than the other bee killing theory that year – cell phones. I published a story about the loony idea…
Global Warming and Walnut Trees: a Case Study in Deception
Guest post by Dr. David Deming The science of global warming is allegedly “settled.” The American Physical Society has declared that “global warming is occurring” and that the “evidence is…
Crops that are about adapting to weather, not climate
From the University of Edinburgh a suggestion that the food security issue raised by AGW alarmists might not be worrisome at all. Of course the next complaint will be that…
Borlaug 2.0 ?
From McGill University A plan to improve crop yields instead of shutting down industrial society as some potential eco terrorists want to do. Norman Borlaug made huge advances in agriculture.…
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