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…
Category: Agriculture
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.…
Peak Oil, Climate Change and the threat to food security
Guest post by David Archibald In May, WUWT kindly hosted a post with slides from a presentation I gave to the Institute of World Politics in Washington. Following are some…
Debunked: the "climate change causes wars" myth
From the Center for Strategic and International Studies The Washington Quarterly, a total takedown of the myth that wars and climate change are linked as claimed by this ridiculous study…
The pathway to go after farming and fertilizers
Reading this, especially with the climate doom opening paragraph, I’m left with the idea that it will be used as a tool to limit modern farming practices by going after…
Mapping the guilt of fruits and vegetables out of state
From DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, probably the biggest load of crap I’ve seen in quite some time. I realize that’s harsh, and I don’t think I’ve ever used that sentence…
Uh oh, CO2 actually reverses temperature effect on rangelands
The results of a USDA experiment called PHACE (Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment) where liquid CO2 is injected into the ground from a storage tank, then effects measure on grassland…
Quantifying the moo
From the USDA, via Eurekalert. The goal was quantifying the moo. Next step, regulation. Hello $10/gallon milk. In the first detailed study on emissions from large-scale dairies, ARS researchers found…
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