[EnergySpin]

This would be so funny .... if it wasn't tragic. One of the masters of disasters claimed this:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')umanity is on the threshold of a century of extraordinary bounty, courtesy of global climate change. That's the opinion of Robert Balling, former scientific adviser to the Greening Earth Society, a lobbying arm of the power industry founded by the Western Fuels Association. In a world where atmospheric carbon dioxide levels soar from the burning of fossil fuels, he says, "crops will grow faster, larger, more water-use efficient, and more resistant to stress." Quoting study after study, he invokes visions of massive melon yields, heftier potatoes, and "pumped-up pastureland." Bumper crops of wheat and rice, he says, will benefit the world's farmers and the hungry.

[KiddieKorral]

How many times was that guy dropped on his head as a kid?

[EnergySpin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('KiddieKorral', 'H')ow many times was that guy dropped on his head as a kid?

[Bas]

it also says this:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') small but growing body of research is finding that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, while increasing crop yield, decrease the nutritional value of plants. More than a hundred studies, for example, have found that when CO2 from fossil-fuel burning builds up in plant tissues, nitrogen (essential for making protein) declines. A smaller number of studies hint at another troubling impact: As atmospheric CO2 levels go up, trace elements in plants (such as zinc and iron, which are vital to animal and human life) go down, potentially malnourishing all those that subsist on the plants.

[FoxV]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '"')crops will grow faster, larger, more water-use efficient, and more resistant to stress."

[rockdoc123]

Well very interesting comment...do any of you have anything sensible to add to the discussion...ie. perhaps you could offer your immense scientific understanding why this cannot possibly be the case? Or will you fall back on the normal arguments made by "climate change" moonies " it is generally agreed upon by scientists" (which is crap because it isn't) or "all the evidence points to" (which is crap because it doesn't).

Why is it that some people have absolutely no problem swallowing views passed out from the folks who are adamant about anthropomorphic climate change without the least bit of scrutiny or analysis but you have a tremendous problem even trying to analyse the basis for comments that are made to the contrary?

There is good opportunity for healthy debate on issues surrounding the concept of global warming as well as issues surrounding the concept of peak oil. It distresses me that many people on this forum accept one side or the other without actual having done any research themselves.

[NeoPeasant]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', 'W')ell very interesting comment...do any of you have anything sensible to add to the discussion...ie. perhaps you could offer your immense scientific understanding why this cannot possibly be the case? Or will you fall back on the normal arguments made by "climate change" moonies " it is generally agreed upon by scientists" (which is crap because it isn't) or "all the evidence points to" (which is crap because it doesn't).

Why is it that some people have absolutely no problem swallowing views passed out from the folks who are adamant about anthropomorphic climate change without the least bit of scrutiny or analysis but you have a tremendous problem even trying to analyse the basis for comments that are made to the contrary?

There is good opportunity for healthy debate on issues surrounding the concept of global warming as well as issues surrounding the concept of peak oil. It distresses me that many people on this forum accept one side or the other without actual having done any research themselves.

[Wildwell]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721449.stm

[Clouseau2]

Um, I'm quite sure that every species of crop can only grow and thrive in a quite narrow range of temperatures ... Go too much above that range and the plant is just barely surviving, never mind growing.

Unless in the future we plan to dine only on cactus.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Don't forget that so much of the world's land is high up in the Northern Lattitudes. Warm the world up a few nice toasty degrees and all those frozen frigid lands can start producing crops!

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he industries whose livelihoods depend on continuing our CO2 emitting activities are pumping millions into a disinformation campaign to create the illusion that there is still a real doubt about about anthropomorphic climate change. It only takes a minute to find out who is funding the groups making these claims on sourcewatch.org