Effects of Elevated CO2, Ozone and Projected Climate Change on Irrigated Potato Production in Europe

http://www.co2science.org/journal/2003/v6n18b1.htm

Effects of Elevated CO2, Ozone and Projected Climate Change on Irrigated Potato Production in Europe

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Sunny - what you seem to be implying in this post is that global climate change may really be happening, but if it is, it's going to be great for growing potatoes, right?

Miami Beach and Bangladesh could get flooded, presumably, and drought might affect corn production in the Midwestern United States, but the potato growers of Europe will be okay - I mean, that's what this scientific abstract seems to be saying.

Roger, maybe you disagree, but this sounds plausible to me. I mean, nobody who's serious about science would claim that every facet of global climate change would be equally bad.

Several years ago, the Wall Street Journal, which generally hates global warming science, ran a fascinating page 1 story on the amazing crops that Alaska farmers are now growing in the northern part of the state, because of much warmer than usual weather there. I think many scientists suspect that global warming would be great for Siberia, too.

So - thanks, Sunny. Are you doing any Siberian real estate investments yet?

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Nonsense. Keep your apocalyptic religious beliefs to yourself.

LOL. Come on, Troll, you can do better than that. Bangladesh is already subject to severe flooding. It's rather close to sea-level. An increase in sea-level simply due to thermal expansion of the ocean could be devastating and since floods there make the worst hurricane in US history look like a mild spring zephyr, killing people in the hundreds of thousands, the people there are concerned. This isn't a trivial issue, but then I don't expect you understand. You don't even realize that it's normal to have snow on the high plains in April.

What's next, citing the National Enquirer?

David - thanks. 'Apocalyptic religious beliefs' have nothing to do with whether a rising sea level is likely to be a problem for Bangladesh. Serious climate scientists have predicted this - and as you said, it's happening already to some degree.

When I did a report on sea level rise in the 1980s, it also seemed that New Orleans is another major population center that's seriously threatened by global climate change, isn't it?

What people told me for my article was that parts of New Orleans are actually below sea level, and that southern Louisiana is already losing something like 40-60 square miles of bayou country to the Gulf of Mexico every year - or was it every decade?

Anyway, Louisiana is already losing land to the sea - not primarily because of global warming at this point, but mostly because Corps of Engineers dams along the Mississippi have changed the way the river deposits silt along the Mississippi Delta, so that silt deposits that used to build up the bayou country are now getting dumped farther out to sea, causing the land to retreat as a result. But further sea level rise should make the problem worse, and maybe threaten the lowest spots in New Orleans with serious flooding.

David - is that your sense also? Or has the latest science on this changed, so that what I thought I knew in the 1980s is no longer valid?

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I can't resist . . . well the National Enquirer does have more credibility with the general public . . . and rightfully so!