Science "journalists" who promulgate climate change hysteria have been recently pushing the fearmongering of the "hottest" year meme (or "warmest" if you prefer), which is essentially a lie...apparently, both the world's food crops and the public are simply now ignoring the proclamations of these chicken little, climate-cult doomsday criers.....
The science is undeniable: the majority of plant life, including major agricultural crops, prosper under climatic conditions that are warmer and enriched with CO2.
Despite the recent significant pause in the global warming trend, world temperatures still creep up, always presenting opportunities for fearmongering-style reporting.
Yet the global warming doomsday prognostications of these "reporters" never materialize - even the International Red Cross report is not so blind to the climate "disaster" reality.
And as this adjacent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chart clearly documents, the world's major food crops produce greater bounty as the climate warms.
On the chart, superimposed is the latest NASA/GISS two-year average temperature on the chart, which indicates the slow creep of global warming. As greenhouse growers have known for over 100 years, a plant's productivity increases with a warmer climate environment.
It would seem that corn, wheat, rice and soybeans are no different than other plants.
In fact, from this report we learn:
- the 2014 U.S. corn production is espected to shatter the previous 2013 record
- over 70% ofthis year's corn crop is rated as of excellent quality
- other global crops, such as barley, wheat and soybeans are experiencing huge production in 2014
- and global rice output is approaching record levels
So, what's not to like about a slightly warmer climate? Bring the "warmest" on, with its greater food production; crop-loving rainfall; fewer tornadoes; and less frequent U.S. hurricanes.
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