I’m all for engineering food crops but this climate model nonsense is getting really tedious -this time NPR falls for Caldeira’s Playstation® climatology
Geoengineered Food? Climate Fix Could Boost Crop Yields, But With Risks
For a few years now, a handful of scientists have been proposing grandiose technological fixes for the world’s climate to combat the effects of global warming — schemes called geoengineering.
Climate change has the potential to wreak all kinds of havoc on the planet, including the food system. Scientists predict that two variables farmers depend on heavily — temperature and precipitation — are already changing and affecting food production in some arid parts of the world where there isn’t a lot of room for error. And if the problem worsens on a larger scale, it could do a lot of damage to agricultural yields and food security.
At some point, governments may decide “to do something desperate to protect our food and our people,” Ken Caldeira, an environmental scientist at Stanford University, tells The Salt. And that “something desperate” could be geoengineering.
The population has increased from 3 billion in 1960 to 7 billion in 2011 and we are able to feed this increase. This is due to good agriculture methods and most likely increased atmospheric carbon dioxide causing an increase in crop yields and a smaller requirement for water. We don’t need government activists screwing this system up. Do we want a dot-com or a banking crises in agriculture as was caused by past interruptions of government in economic systems?
I am FOIA