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Corn Production in the USA Is Already Adapting to Warming

So what’s the longer-term outlook for the crop? In the concluding paragraph of their report, Butler and Huybers write, “losses to US maize yield from increased temperature,” such as those suggested by Schlenker and Roberts (2006, 2009), “are almost certainly overestimated if adaptation is not accounted for.” But if it is a part of the analysis, their work suggests there could well be no net loss in productivity across the entire corn-production region... Read More Changes in Avian Migration...

Growth Responses of Tree Roots to Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment

The CO2-induced enhancement of tree root growth out in the real world of nature may actually be much larger than previously believed... Read More Wind Speeds over China: AR5 Climate Models vs. Real-World Data (28 May 2013) Chen et al. quantified and compared “the magnitude, historical trends and temporal variability in 10-m wind speeds derived from direct observations, reanalysis products and output from AOGCMs,” using nine more up-to-date CMIP-5 models that are to be featured in the upcoming...

Holocene Histories of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration and West Greenland Air Temperature

What can be learned from a cursory glance at the data? That the CO2 concentration of Earth’s atmosphere appears to have had no consistent impact on July air temperatures in the vicinity of North Lake, Greenland, over the past seven millennia... Read More Divining Future Winter Wheat Yields in the United Kingdom (21 May 2013) It would appear that even the worst-case climate-change scenarios concocted by the world’s climate modelers are insufficient to overpower the positive effects of...

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