Climate Change: What's your take?

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EpicRandy said:

KLAMarine said:

Are any of these claims of increased food production supported anywhere in the scientific literature?

Actualy yes and no  here's a great summary : https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11655-climate-myths-higher-co2-levels-will-boost-plant-growth-and-food-production/

I don't trust that article at all. The links to the areas of the IPCC report if refers to are broken. It's a biased news article and doesn't appear to be properly referenced.

Here's what I've read on the subject.

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/53689/PDF

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/312/5782/1918.short

First one estimates a 33% increase in crop yields due to Co2.

Second also estimates a rise, but states that it's less than expected and so probably won't offset negative effects of Climate Change (but fails to explain what those negative effects are).