Submitted by Rear-gunner t3_1085n05 in Futurology
Rear-gunner OP t1_j3s56oi wrote
Reply to comment by Human_Anybody7743 in Controversial Proposal to Reduce Global Warming Could Threaten Ozone Regeneration by Rear-gunner
IT was not my set of papers but yours. How do you see famine in a hotter world, hotter world=more food production.
Human_Anybody7743 t1_j3s8nlt wrote
> IT was not my set of papers but yours
And it demonstrates the opposite of what you are claiming on multiple levels.
> How do you see famine in a hotter world, hotter world=more food production.
Because desertification, mass floods and giant storms never disrupt food production.
You're clearly not interested in truth or logic here.
DeepSpaceNebulae t1_j3sq4ew wrote
Heat allowing plants to grow faster reaches a max pretty quickly followed by a significant drop in efficiency due to moisture loss in the leaves via the stomata (stomata are the small pores in leaves that open to take in C02 and expel O2)
Too hot and the leaves need to become smaller and reduce the amount of CO2 they absorb or else they lose too much water to the air and dry out.
Don’t know why I keep seeing this “it’s better for plants” nonsense. Like claiming a flood is good because it provides everyone water… before drowning them
Also, famine is what you went for? We produce more than enough food right now, it’s distribution that’s the problem. Or will hotter temps allow for easier food distribution?
Edit: To add, it doesn’t matter what the world was like millions of years ago or how animals will adapt… we are adapted for the unusually stable climate of the last few thousand years. Our entire civilization; food production, population distribution, etc; is all based on the current climate. As the climate changes the cost of adapting will become untenable. If the 2 million refugees of the Syrian war was bad, what do you imagine a billion+ climate refugees will be like. There are already population migrations because of climate change, megacities running out of water (dependent on no-longer predictable rains or melted glaciers) rising coastlines, declining seafood stocks, etc. This isn’t going to happen tomorrow, but it will probably be your children and children’s children that will really start to feel its impact
We will adapt, we’re the most adaptable creature that has ever lived, but without doing something now to combat climate change the costs will be unimaginable.
And this may seem doom and gloom… but that’s because it is! We’ve known definitively about this for 50 years and have done nothing. The oil companies themselves discovered this, but chose to bury it and spend billions on misinformation.
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ialsoagree t1_j3sqknv wrote
How do you figure a hotter world improved food production?
The science showes that under increasing CO2, plants prefer decreasing temperature to grow more biomass. Under both increasing temperature and CO2, plants show no increase, or even a decreased growth of biomass.
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