Treehugger.com testimony reveals the delicate flyover country ecosystem thrown into disarray: One degree of warming may cut Kansas wheat production 20 percent
"Researchers found that a one degree Celsius increase in temperatures for the area would cut wheat yields by 10.64 bushels per acre. Since the mean yield for 1985 to 2011 was 50.59 bushels per acre, that comes out to a 21 percent decrease. And three degrees of warming would cut yields by 32.36 bushels per acre, or a whopping 64 percent."
Tragic scenario . . .
"But you get the gist: by 2080, global warming could reduce Kansas’ wheat yield by as much as two thirds. And that’s the optimistic scenario."
Related: Greater Kansas City Weather Orange Ozone Alert for Saturday, Sept. 7
"Researchers found that a one degree Celsius increase in temperatures for the area would cut wheat yields by 10.64 bushels per acre. Since the mean yield for 1985 to 2011 was 50.59 bushels per acre, that comes out to a 21 percent decrease. And three degrees of warming would cut yields by 32.36 bushels per acre, or a whopping 64 percent."
Tragic scenario . . .
"But you get the gist: by 2080, global warming could reduce Kansas’ wheat yield by as much as two thirds. And that’s the optimistic scenario."
Related: Greater Kansas City Weather Orange Ozone Alert for Saturday, Sept. 7
It's okay new wheat technology (GMO) is going save us!!!!! Just like the toy train!
ReplyDeleteAt the rate they are going they will run out of water long before the temps are to blame. You can only suck so much water out of the aquifer without it being replaced by rainfall. Despite all the positive arguments for fracking oil out of the prairie the long term results will show that the tremendous amounts of water required to produce a few drops of oil will cripple the wheat/corn production much faster than any climate change.
ReplyDeleteAsk your apeshit crazy friend Jack Cashill Tony: Nothing you wrote on this post is true.
ReplyDeleteWhats important is Americans keep breeding like rabbits so we won't need as much food. If you want to call it that.
ReplyDeleteUmm... wheat grows quite well in really inhospitable climates. Wheat will do just fine. It's grass.
ReplyDeleteUmm... wheat grows quite well in really inhospitable climates. Wheat will do just fine. It's grass.
ReplyDeleteUmm... wheat grows quite well in really inhospitable climates. Wheat will do just fine. It's grass.
ReplyDeleteThere you go with that science again. What do the Kochs have to say? I get my information from politicians.
ReplyDeleteNo wheat? That should solve the obesity epidemic shouldn't it?
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it suck if Texas became like Mexico, Oklahoma became like Texas. Kansas became like Oklahoma.... and the wheat/corn belt would move to the Dakotas?
ReplyDeleteAnd Florida, Southern California and NY/NJ went underwater?
But no, we dont have global warming... just ask the oil industry!
There has been no global warming in the past 15 years. Libtard sheeple idiots.
ReplyDeleteEvery time it hits 95 degrees , the morons come out of their air conditioned condos and drum up this bull$hit. The average temperature has been in DECLINE FOR 20 YEARS! Dumbasses!
ReplyDeleteThe scientists say the earth is warming. Conservative politicians say it isn't. I'll go with the scientists.
ReplyDeleteThe conservatives (the business people) don't want to accept this, because then they will have to do something about it. Its easier to keep their heads in the sand.
As of today, there have been no hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Strom Gabrielle is fizzling out. Right now the Middle of September should be peak hurricane season. Tornado activity is the lowest for a season since 1951, sixty two years ago. I saw where some environmentalist were going to row through the Northwest Passage to show the Arctic melt but had to cancel since it is already iced over. The summer the Arctic just experienced is one of the coldest in history
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/09/06/extreme-weather-snoozer-no-hurricanes-and-low-tornado-numbers-in-2013/
I'm sure the scientists are right, Byron, and just as soon as I get home from picking dinner up for me and my seven children at the drive-up window in my Range Rover, I'll worry about global warming.
ReplyDeleteIn 2012, Kansas produced more soybeans than wheat, due primarily to better market prices and lower input costs for soybeans than wheat.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the decline in the aquifer, very little wheat is irrigated so that is a minor factor in the decline in the number of acres planted to wheat. Most irrigation is devoted to corn. If anything, you might expect the number of acres of wheat to increase as the number of acres planted to corn decreases.
It remains to be seen what agriculture will look like in Kansas in 30 to 50 years, but no doubt it will look a lot different than today.