Now Nitrogen, making up 78% of Earth’s atmosphere, and a requirement for many agricultural crops is given the label of “dangerous”. I’m guessing Oxygen and the “dangerous oxidation” it causes…
Category: Agriculture
Claim: As CO2 levels rise, some crop nutrients will fall
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Researchers have some bad news for future farmers and eaters: As carbon dioxide levels rise this century, some grains and…
Claim: U.S. corn yields are increasingly vulnerable to hot, dry weather – Data: corn yield trend positive
While a recent report tells us current droughts in the western USA hardly make the top ten, we have this from Stanford University, a claim about drought related crop insurance…
Ouch. Corn biofuel could generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline
From the “we told you so back in 2010″ department and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Study casts doubt on climate benefit of biofuels from corn residue The fuel could generate…
An intriguing mystery – and a very speculative theory
Guest essay by Eric Worrall John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Advisor, once tried to reframe the climate debate in terms of his prediction of “global climate disruption”. Holdren stated at…
LA Times Tony Barboza gets caught fear mongering the IPCC report, becomes first victim of facts that don't agree with claims
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…
More scare stories: Warming Climate May Spread Drying to a Third of Earth, Says Study
Heat, Not Just Rainfall, Plays into New Projections Increasing heat is expected to extend dry conditions to far more farmland and cities by the end of the century than changes…
Claim: Future heat waves pose threat to global food supply
But there seems to be no signs of a major slowdown despite heat waves of the past 60 years. From the Institute of Physics Heat waves could significantly reduce crop…
Climate Craziness of the Week: Guacalypse Now
UPDATE: 3/5/14 Chipotle spokesman walks back the claim, see below. Chipotle warns global warming may force it to stop serving guacamole. Yes, that’s an actual headline. Too bad they didn’t…
Friday Funny – try eating this 'crop' threatened by 'climate change'
Apparently, all that work in selective crop breeding won’t overcome ‘climate change’ This is the headline and story summary from Eurekalert: Crop species may be more vulnerable to climate change…
Greenhouse 'time machine' sheds light on corn domestication
A grass called teosinte is thought to be the ancestor of corn, but it doesn’t look much like corn at all. Smithsonian scientists were surprised to find that teosinte planted…
The Climate Dichotomy: A Scientific Not A Political Difference
Guest essay by Dr. Tim Ball Attempts to understand climate are stalled. The standstill parallels the pre-Copernican state when the Ptolemaic model had held sway for 2000 years but no…
Climate craziness of the week: Yes, we have no bananas, thanks to climate change
[At least there will be less radiation spread around. -Anthony] Going Bananas: Another Climate Change Hustle Guest essay by Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger and Patrick J. Michaels We hear that…
IPCC's Report on Climate Change: Myths & Realities
A World Meteorological Organization insider’s view of the IPCC report. Guest essay by Dr. S. Jeevananda Reddy Formerly Chief Technical Advisor – WMO/UN [A note to readers: English is not…
Science self-corrects: bogus study claiming Roundup tolerant GMO corn causes cancer to be retracted
Whoo boy. This sounds like a familiar climate episode. Andrew Revkin tips me to this retraction of a paper that got screaming headlines worldwide, and says this along with the…
World agricultural output continues to rise, despite dire predictions of decline
Guest essay by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times The year 2013 has been a great year for global agriculture. Record world production of rice and healthy production…
Norway's wheat production impacted by Climate Change
Guest essay by David Archibald A correspondent in Oslo writes: “The official view in Norway is in contrast to what the people experience because of cooling weather: Late spring gives…
Is There an Equine Version of Wind Turbine Syndrome?
While not much gets past WUWT, this story from Portugal has only recently gotten some press, well after its posting in March, and I think it warrants attention here. While…
The Climate-Grain Production Relationship Quantified
Guest essay by David Archibald There is now consensus that the Sun has now entered a quiet period. The first paper from the solar physics community predicting the current quiet…
The bull and the Borg
NOTE: This satirical piece is rooted in facts. Having been to Australia on tour myself, I also heard the claims of bureaucratic abuse from many of the farmers who attended…
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