Of course the
mainstream media
would never report
good news like this:
"Experts" ( at BS ) predict droughts,
floods, crop failures, famines and
climate change refugees.
Meanwhile, grain yields per hectare
of corn, rice, wheat and barley
have increased strongly
in the past 25 years.
The study is in German,
but a few charts are useful
if that's not your language:
http://www.science-skeptical.de/klimawandel/klimakatastrophe-die-getreideproduktion-hat-sich-in-den-letzten-60-jahren-weltweit-nahezu-vervierfacht/0017822/
The study is in German,
but a few charts are useful
if that's not your language:
http://www.science-skeptical.de/klimawandel/klimakatastrophe-die-getreideproduktion-hat-sich-in-den-letzten-60-jahren-weltweit-nahezu-vervierfacht/0017822/
Corn yields per hectare increased
by about +80%, rice by about +65%,
wheat by about +70% and barley by
about +65%.
The amount of corn harvested
has increased about +100%,
rice harvested up by about +75%
and wheat harvested was up
by about +80%.
When we look at the world grain
production as a whole
( wheat, rice and coarse grains ),
production has quadrupled
since 1960 !
The world population has grown
from 3 billion to over 7 billion
in the same period
-- up about +250% --
or more than doubled.
In Germany and the USA
yields per hectare of
cultivated land have
risen sharply since 1960.
-- Corn in Germany up by about +130%
-- Wheat in Germany up by about +120%.
-- Corn in the USA up by about +110%
-- Wheat in the USA up by about +75%.
If we look at grain production
in Germany since 1950,
total grain production
increased by about +450%,
the grain yield by about +350%.
In Germany the wheat yield
per hectare more than doubled
since 1970 and is four times
higher than in other countries.
In the past 30 years,
German yields per hectare
of corn have almost doubled.
Grain production, in Senegal, Burkina Faso,
and Niger has gradually been improving too:
The greening of the marginal desert regions,
thanks to more CO2 in the atmosphere,
has eased the threat of famine,
and strife, in these regions.
for Burkina Faso
Countries such as India,
who were net grain ( wheat )
importers up to the 1970s,
are now grain exporters
( for wheat ).
We still have a lot to do,
but going backwards
to solar and wind energy
is not the answer.
Why don’t we hear about this
good news about grain production,
or any other good news
about our environment,
in the mainstream media ?
about our environment,
in the mainstream media ?