Food Free Fridays Coming?
Cartoon:
By Jerry Holbert
Another Issue of
"Carbon Sense” prepared by The Carbon Sense Coalition.
Once again, the high
priests of the UN/IPCC have forecast world starvation unless we mend our wicked
ways.
According to them, unless
we curb our use of oil, gas, coal and meat, the carbon dioxide levels in the
atmosphere will soar, the globe will heat up, and food production will plummet.
This is just a rerun of
their previous failed forecasts based on academic theories and computer models.
They should have asked
practical nurserymen, farmers and meteorologists.
Nurserymen would tell them
that if you pump carbon dioxide into a greenhouse the plants grow faster,
bigger, more drought-tolerant and more heat-tolerant. Therefore more carbon
dioxide will produce more food.
See this Time-Lapse video
showing effect of carbon dioxide on plant growth:
Farmers would tell them
that plants grow faster in the warmth of spring and summer and slower in
winter. Any warming by carbon dioxide would tend to warm the higher latitudes
so the snow line will shift, thus creating more arable land. It would also tend
to produce warmer nights, thus reducing frost damage to crops and opening more
land to frost-sensitive crops.
Meteorologists would tell
them that if global temperatures increase, evaporation from the vast oceans
must also increase. What goes up with more evaporation must come down as more
rain or snow. While some areas may become drier, a warmer world is on average a
wetter world, producing more food.
There is also no evidence
that extra carbon dioxide and warmth will make weather more erratic – in fact
the reverse should occur as the global temperature gradient, which drives
winds, and storms will be reduced with more warming at the poles.
Finally, there is no
evidence that their climate scares will occur “much earlier than expected”.
With global temperatures flat for 17 years, how can warming occur faster than
in their previous failed forecasts?
There is no rational basis
for claims that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will add to world
starvation – history and science tell us that it would produce a productive
green and bountiful world. It is global cooling we have to fear.
Image: By Steve hunter
On the other hand, there is
no doubt that foolish climate POLICIES will produce less food. Policies on
ethanol, biomass, carbon-credit forestry and the Kyoto bans on regrowth
control, either directly consume food, or reduce the land available for food
production.
Encouraging and protecting trees at the expense of grasslands is
threatening the production of low-cost food from marginal grazing lands and
water restrictions are driving irrigators out of business.
And to top it off, their
taxes and regulatory wars on carbon energy will push marginal farmers and
fishermen out of production. The world may indeed see hungry years, but carbon
dioxide will not be the cause.
Already they advocate
“Meat-free Mondays”. Their anti-food anti-carbon policies will soon result in
“Food-free Fridays”.
If you would like to read
more see:
Alarmists admit that they exaggerate damage caused by
climate change. It’s OK to lie:
Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than we thought:
The Twilight of Abundance
with the Cold Sun?
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