Juxtapose time!
Stanford School of Sustainability, June 18th;
A sweeping new analysis finds that rising global temperatures will dampen the world’s capacity to produce food from most staple crops, even after accounting for economic development and adaptation by farmers.
USDA forecasts a massive US corn crop this year, with yield at a record high of 188.8 bushels per acre. Corn prices going down.
An amazing trend: in a generation (since 2000), US corn yield have increased ~45%. In two generations (since 1975), corn yields have almost doubled.
Related: Faux meat-congealer Beyond Meat reported a bad third quarter last week; the company’s sales were hurt in part “by weak demand for its plant-based meat products,” according to Reuters, and that has The Street’s Daniel Kline arguing the company is ripe for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
FILTHY LIBERALS
are growing Corn just to dump in our gas tanks.
ETHANOL, the engine destroyer is a complete SCAM.
An unnecessary product, nobody wants, and it destroys engines.
The Ethanol Lobby is huge in IOWA, Senator Grassly is the worst for defending this scam.
Grow food, not Alcohol.
FILTHY LIBERALS
Agreed 100%.
I’ve been caught a bit unaware. 188 BPA is actually astounding, and solely attributable to GMOs.
Soil conservation has been a thing, a real scientific concern, since before George Washington introduced a 7 year crop rotation plan employing buckwheat as a fallow crop (it’s not bad at nitrogen fixing).
The corn to methanol thing not only destroys perfectly good engines, it destroys soil which is our (plural) most vital and truly scarce resource.
In short, “environmentalists” are the very best at effing up the environment.
I just love the titles they bestow upon themselves and their friends.Solomon Hsiang is a professor in the global environmental policy area of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s Department of Environmental Social Sciences.
Oooooooo…how impressive!!!
Mr.Hisang also collaborated with another kool aid drinker demonstrating how higher temps results in higher suicide rates.
There’s really no end to their silliness.
With the Trump cuts I don’t think that Department is sustainable any longer. I always thought Global Warming would die through lack of funding.
Department of Silly Talks, equivalent to the English Ministry of Silly Walks
Both dedicated to chasing government grants
Look what DEI and hardcore leftist “academia” have done to a formerly GREAT institution such as Stanford. They’re reduced to spewing out absurd Nostradamus level prognostication. It started with that guy … that guy … I’ve forgotten his name who predicted worldwide famine and food wars causing the end of mankind because of overpopulation back in the 1970’s … and when that didn’t pan out … they pivoted to mass human death and destruction from global warming.
Stanford is asshoe
Paul Ehrlich. Spectacularly wrong for decades and yet still maintains that if he were to write the book today, “My language would be even more apocalyptic.” The be-clowning of academia continues unabated.
Paul Ehrlich.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich
He’s 93 now and still pushing his completely failed predictions.
Although not 93, so too Bernie Sanders is still pushing HIS failed projections and “solution”……Marxists never learn.
I will be glad when Beyond Meat is Beyond Broke.
Beyond Meat? Imagine a company naming itself after my sex life…