Baloney. While I am a patriotic American and I love all things American, I do not for one second believe this utter nonsense.
The World is NOT heavily dependent on U.S. agriculture. The time where the world depended on U.S. Agricultural output has long come and gone. And has it actually occured to you that increased temperature of a few degrees would actually increase plant growth over and above the longer planting season? and over and above more land available for planting? And has it actually occured to you that increased CO2 levels would help plants grow faster and bigger? Jed, I admire what you are doing with your library, but with these topics, you're absolutely deluded. And by the way, as one who actually owns land and plants crops, I believe I am more qualified to discuss food production than you. Jojo ----- Original Message ----- From: Jed Rothwell To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Koch founded climate skeptic changes sides I wrote: The impact you see this year on U.S. agriculture will be world-wide, leading to starvation on an unprecedented scale. I mean to say "and if it continues it will lead to starvation . . ." The world is heavily dependent on U.S. agriculture. The extreme weather conditions will affect the entire world. Needless to say, assuming this trend continues agriculture in other countries will also suffer. In a few places such as Canada output may increase, but not by much. There is no doubt this will lead to unprecedented starvation, because the world population is so high. - Jed
