KLAMarine said:
Can you provide a source for the following claim?: "anthropogenic carbon emissions are warming the planet and as a result crop yields are increasing and the world is generally becoming a greener, more habitable place." |
Man I've had a couple of beers and was feeling lazy and hoped you'd look it up yourself.
Here's a couple that I read back when I was really into the climate change thing:
Greening:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/grl.50563/abstract
Rice crops:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12047/abstract
Basically farmers would have to change the time of year they plant their crops and (if possible) move to higher altitudes to mitigate the effect of the heat on their crops, but if they do that then they are seeing better yields due to what they call the 'Co2 fertilisation effect'.
I only read studies based on observations btw. The stuff I've read about climate change reducing crops all seems to be based on computer models. Computer models are almost always wrong as far as I can tell.
There's more out there but you can find them for yourself if you're that interested. Apart from the dangers of demonising carbon on those in the developing world, this subject doesn't really interest me anymore.
