re: #230 brookly red

I try to learn the science but the teacher keeps you know, apologizing for his inaccuracies…

So, I assume you mean Al Gore by that. How about you look to the actual scientists?

OK, just today, I linked one of the scariest papers I have ever read in my professional career.

Few here commented.

It was a Proceedings of the National Academy, discussing crop failures in America due to climate changes. PNAS papers are a big deal. Not everyone gets to publish them. Not everyone passes the peer review which is very strong for that.

And what did this paper say. Short form it said that at a minimum, just taking temperature fluctuation into account we have a 30% loss in crops.

The upper end reported (from their experiments and data sets) was 82%.

The reason for the wide range was we are not yet certain how much warming will occur by the end of the century. It will certainly and without doubt be significant, but we don’t know how bad, bad will get. The 30% is based on the absolute softest possible predictions.

And this paper doesn’t even go into all sorts of other factors that could make this worse, like urban expansion or insect migrations.

And in the meantime I have to deal with people here not looking at the science!

So look. Just look. this paper is very readable.