Cool! Hey I wonder why potato is rarely included in these. At some 400 MT, it is a far more important source of calories than Sorghum or Millet, though not a cereal.
Not so in the UK. For example, Church Field gave 95 bales last year, 25 this year. The price of feed is very high, and one farmer is taking about having to slaughter cows. Climate Chaos has caused huge problems that will be felt for a long while.
What an absolute shocker that we see increasing crop yields at a time of milder, warmer weather, in combination with an increase in airborne plant food!
The greater threat is from soil degradation, not an increase in Co² and conditions being a bit warmer. Plus, in the UK, eco zealots in government with little to no understanding of agriculture actually legislate to prevent farmers from keeping the soil in good condition by the restrictions placed on spreading muck. Often referred to by the term "putting heart in the land"
There appears to be a generalised attack on farming across the West, so when the famine comes, it will be owing to government delusion and incompetence and not an increase in Co² with some general warming. In fact, the warming and the extra Co² will help to mitigate the disastrous agricultural policies of the UK government.
"It’s not uncommon for people to tell me that global food production is already collapsing due to climate change. They are then surprised to hear that we typically hit record harvests year after year (even as things get hotter). [ AND YET....DESPITE ALL THE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY ............they PERSIST with their nonsensical "beliefs" ......and "our ability to adapt and survive "! ]
But there are large and genuine risks of climate change to agriculture — I’ve written about this a lot, and it is probably my biggest concern when it comes to climate impacts — and there’s no guarantee that rising productivity continues" [ EXCEPT OF COURSE ,that it ALWAYS does continue to improve , and with higher yields from ever smaller land areas under cultivation !
That's human innovation , inventiveness and persistence for you !!!]
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So Hannah , it's about time that YOU REVISED your "doom and gloom" predictions and began to QUESTION YOUR OWN "BELIEFS" . Cold is "our" enemy ! Warmth is "our" friend !
Carbon Dioxide is "plant food" and plants are "food for animals" and "we humans" eat both !
Carbon Dioxide is THE BUILDING BLOCK for all lifeforms on planet Earth , and increases in CO2 and "slight warming" have ALL BEEN BENEFICIAL so far ! .As the planet warms , due to the cyclical climate change warming , a NATURAL EVENT , the ocean "degasses" some of the dissolved CO2
into the air and the atmospheric CO2 content increases........the warmth ALWAYS PRECEDES AND CAUSES THE CO2 INCREASE.....not the other way around ! This increased CO2 level is stimulating and 'fertilising' all the plants.....and the entire planet is "greening" as a result ! More OXYGEN from the plant life [ some from terrestrial plants but most from marine plants ! ] as to removes the carbon fron the CO2 molecules to create "food" for itself using sunlight [ photosynthesis ] and water , in the form of sugars and starches ! Miraculous really !! Solar power at it's best !!
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First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.
We know that the Earth has had at least five major ice ages. The first one happened about 2 billion years ago and lasted about 300 million years. The most recent one started about 2.6 million years ago, and in fact, we are still technically in it. [ We still have ICE at both poles and
on most of the HIGH MOUNTAINS ....even in the TROPICS ! ].
So why isn’t the Earth covered in ice right now? It’s because we are in a period known as an “interglacial.” In an ice age, temperatures will fluctuate between colder and warmer levels. Ice sheets and glaciers melt during warmer phases, which are called interglacials, and expand during colder phases, which are called glacials.
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Right now we are in the most recent ice age’s warm interglacial period, which began about 11,000 years ago.Almost all hominins disappeared during the Ice Age. Only a single species survived. “It’s not that we had something these extinct hominins lacked,”
“It’s that we used those skills differently.”
"But H. sapiens had appeared many millennia prior to the Ice Age, approximately 200,000 years before, in the continent of Africa....That said, approximately 70,000 to 60,000 years ago, in the midst of the Ice Age, our species started to spread throughout the planet for a variety of potential reasons. .......We moved into flourishing forests and arid, dry deserts."
'"[ It was ] found that the body temperatures of non-mammaliamorph synapsids were around
24-29⁰C, similar to extant lizards, but jumped by 5-9⁰C in mammaliamorphs around 233 million years ago, during the Late Triassic.
This pushes the date for the evolution of endothermy later than anticipated."
With a body temperature of approximately 37 degrees Celsius , we mammals . humans , are a relative new-comer to the world-stage ! "Humans, as anatomically modern Homo sapiens, have existed for about 300,000 years, with the oldest known fossils found in Africa dating to that time. While our lineage of human ancestors diverged from chimpanzees about 6 to 8 million years ago, and complex behaviors like tool-making appeared millions of years ago, the species Homo sapiens is a relatively recent development in human history."....but has been around long enough to experience and SURVIVE at least ONE COMPLETE CYCLE of an ICE AGE ......and it is cyclical ....meaning , IT WILL RECUR !!! That is the ONE SURE THING about climate change ! It changes !!
"In the last 300,000 years, Earth has experienced at least two major glaciations (or glacial periods) within the ongoing Quaternary Ice Age, which started about 2.58 million years ago. These glacial periods, characterized by extensive ice sheets, were separated by warmer interglacial periods." .
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"Overall, changing climate conditions provided our species an opportunity to perfect our biggest and best skills — our communication and willingness to make our mark on the world. And when we emerged from the frost, our species only improved upon those talents. When the world thawed about 11,700 years ago, humans began banding together to cultivate crops and create settlements for the first time, forming the foundations for the first civilizations.
The CYCLICAL "warming phase" of this INTER-GLACIAL PERIOD is the coolest of all them so far , and the WORLD is actually getting COLDER , and if this continues , then it is entirely possible that the ONCOMING PHASE OF THIS CURRENT ICE-AGE will be the COLDEST and the most severe and
that "civilisation" and "mankind" as we know it will today will JOIN THE OTHER 99.9% OF ALL THE LIFE FORMS THAT HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED ON THIS PLANET !
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So Hannah , "eat , drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die ".......but let's enjoy ourselves in the meantime ! Let "us" all celebrate the 'accident of birth' that has enabled us to live in such a truly pleasant and abundant and convivial time !
Cool! Hey I wonder why potato is rarely included in these. At some 400 MT, it is a far more important source of calories than Sorghum or Millet, though not a cereal.
JBjb4321............I suspect that you have IRISH ancestry !??
Not so in the UK. For example, Church Field gave 95 bales last year, 25 this year. The price of feed is very high, and one farmer is taking about having to slaughter cows. Climate Chaos has caused huge problems that will be felt for a long while.
Quelle surprise; who would have 'thunk it!
What an absolute shocker that we see increasing crop yields at a time of milder, warmer weather, in combination with an increase in airborne plant food!
The greater threat is from soil degradation, not an increase in Co² and conditions being a bit warmer. Plus, in the UK, eco zealots in government with little to no understanding of agriculture actually legislate to prevent farmers from keeping the soil in good condition by the restrictions placed on spreading muck. Often referred to by the term "putting heart in the land"
There appears to be a generalised attack on farming across the West, so when the famine comes, it will be owing to government delusion and incompetence and not an increase in Co² with some general warming. In fact, the warming and the extra Co² will help to mitigate the disastrous agricultural policies of the UK government.
"It’s not uncommon for people to tell me that global food production is already collapsing due to climate change. They are then surprised to hear that we typically hit record harvests year after year (even as things get hotter). [ AND YET....DESPITE ALL THE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY ............they PERSIST with their nonsensical "beliefs" ......and "our ability to adapt and survive "! ]
But there are large and genuine risks of climate change to agriculture — I’ve written about this a lot, and it is probably my biggest concern when it comes to climate impacts — and there’s no guarantee that rising productivity continues" [ EXCEPT OF COURSE ,that it ALWAYS does continue to improve , and with higher yields from ever smaller land areas under cultivation !
That's human innovation , inventiveness and persistence for you !!!]
.
So Hannah , it's about time that YOU REVISED your "doom and gloom" predictions and began to QUESTION YOUR OWN "BELIEFS" . Cold is "our" enemy ! Warmth is "our" friend !
Carbon Dioxide is "plant food" and plants are "food for animals" and "we humans" eat both !
Carbon Dioxide is THE BUILDING BLOCK for all lifeforms on planet Earth , and increases in CO2 and "slight warming" have ALL BEEN BENEFICIAL so far ! .As the planet warms , due to the cyclical climate change warming , a NATURAL EVENT , the ocean "degasses" some of the dissolved CO2
into the air and the atmospheric CO2 content increases........the warmth ALWAYS PRECEDES AND CAUSES THE CO2 INCREASE.....not the other way around ! This increased CO2 level is stimulating and 'fertilising' all the plants.....and the entire planet is "greening" as a result ! More OXYGEN from the plant life [ some from terrestrial plants but most from marine plants ! ] as to removes the carbon fron the CO2 molecules to create "food" for itself using sunlight [ photosynthesis ] and water , in the form of sugars and starches ! Miraculous really !! Solar power at it's best !!
.
First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.
We know that the Earth has had at least five major ice ages. The first one happened about 2 billion years ago and lasted about 300 million years. The most recent one started about 2.6 million years ago, and in fact, we are still technically in it. [ We still have ICE at both poles and
on most of the HIGH MOUNTAINS ....even in the TROPICS ! ].
So why isn’t the Earth covered in ice right now? It’s because we are in a period known as an “interglacial.” In an ice age, temperatures will fluctuate between colder and warmer levels. Ice sheets and glaciers melt during warmer phases, which are called interglacials, and expand during colder phases, which are called glacials.
.
Right now we are in the most recent ice age’s warm interglacial period, which began about 11,000 years ago.Almost all hominins disappeared during the Ice Age. Only a single species survived. “It’s not that we had something these extinct hominins lacked,”
“It’s that we used those skills differently.”
"But H. sapiens had appeared many millennia prior to the Ice Age, approximately 200,000 years before, in the continent of Africa....That said, approximately 70,000 to 60,000 years ago, in the midst of the Ice Age, our species started to spread throughout the planet for a variety of potential reasons. .......We moved into flourishing forests and arid, dry deserts."
'"[ It was ] found that the body temperatures of non-mammaliamorph synapsids were around
24-29⁰C, similar to extant lizards, but jumped by 5-9⁰C in mammaliamorphs around 233 million years ago, during the Late Triassic.
This pushes the date for the evolution of endothermy later than anticipated."
With a body temperature of approximately 37 degrees Celsius , we mammals . humans , are a relative new-comer to the world-stage ! "Humans, as anatomically modern Homo sapiens, have existed for about 300,000 years, with the oldest known fossils found in Africa dating to that time. While our lineage of human ancestors diverged from chimpanzees about 6 to 8 million years ago, and complex behaviors like tool-making appeared millions of years ago, the species Homo sapiens is a relatively recent development in human history."....but has been around long enough to experience and SURVIVE at least ONE COMPLETE CYCLE of an ICE AGE ......and it is cyclical ....meaning , IT WILL RECUR !!! That is the ONE SURE THING about climate change ! It changes !!
"In the last 300,000 years, Earth has experienced at least two major glaciations (or glacial periods) within the ongoing Quaternary Ice Age, which started about 2.58 million years ago. These glacial periods, characterized by extensive ice sheets, were separated by warmer interglacial periods." .
.
"Overall, changing climate conditions provided our species an opportunity to perfect our biggest and best skills — our communication and willingness to make our mark on the world. And when we emerged from the frost, our species only improved upon those talents. When the world thawed about 11,700 years ago, humans began banding together to cultivate crops and create settlements for the first time, forming the foundations for the first civilizations.
The CYCLICAL "warming phase" of this INTER-GLACIAL PERIOD is the coolest of all them so far , and the WORLD is actually getting COLDER , and if this continues , then it is entirely possible that the ONCOMING PHASE OF THIS CURRENT ICE-AGE will be the COLDEST and the most severe and
that "civilisation" and "mankind" as we know it will today will JOIN THE OTHER 99.9% OF ALL THE LIFE FORMS THAT HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED ON THIS PLANET !
.
So Hannah , "eat , drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die ".......but let's enjoy ourselves in the meantime ! Let "us" all celebrate the 'accident of birth' that has enabled us to live in such a truly pleasant and abundant and convivial time !
could production figures vary as well due to farmers expectation of next years commodity prices ... ??
sugar can be made from corn (maize), sugarbeet and sugarcane ... so what is meant here?
why is sugar and coffee and cotton named as oilseed crops ...
Is there a metric that tracks the diversity in crops? I read somewhere that the more we go deep into a few crops that worst it is for the soil.