Record Cereal Harvests In 2014
December 21, 2015
By Paul Homewood
Warmest year or not, it appears that 2015 has been another bumper one for harvests.
http://faostat3.fao.org/compare/E
In particular, cereal production in Africa has jumped by 12%.
http://faostat3.fao.org/compare/E
There are of course many factors behind the steady rise in harvests. What we can say, though, is that it has been the result of the modern society we live in, for good or bad.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
The good news is comparing cereal production to population growth.
From 1980 to 2000 population increased by 70% from 480 to 810 million. Cereal output increased by about 45%.
But from 2000 to 2013 cereal output grew by a further 50%, and then a 12% increase in 2014. But population “only” increased by 45%. Climate change does not appear to be adversely impacting on agricultural production – or at least not sufficient to cause decimation of crops.
Much wheat is grown in my region of the world (Washington State) and so folks pay attention to cereal markets. When world production goes up, local incomes go down. Ouch!
Some nice charts here (link is to the 12 month chart):
http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=wheat&months=12
Other commodities are on the left side of page.
Site claims they are watching prices as El Niño developes – nothing noticed as of now.
Great!
Another UN prediction fails, just like the continuously accelerating CO2-caused global warming, the accelerating sea-level rise and the increased hurricane frequency and power.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
Yet another global warming doomsday scenario, trotted out by climate alarmists, contradicted by evidence, data, reality.
Sorry for the OT, but this is hilarious
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628524/Climate-change-shock-Burning-fossil-fuels-COOLs-planet-says-NASA
And.. where is that El Nino?
http://notrickszone.com/2015/12/21/the-super-collapsing-el-nino-ncep-cfsv2-n-hemisphere-temps-plummet-1c-in-a-single-week/comment-page-1/#comment-1067055
Only slightly off topic, there’s an interesting article on the BBC website this morning about declining bee numbers in the US due to the surge in biofuels: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35153196
Now there’s an interesting conundrum for the eco-zealots, but I doubt if they’ll accept any of the blame!
A rise in CO2 would show in an increase in plant growth.
An increase in CO2 would be reflected in an increase in crop and plant yields.
The title and text of your article (2015) does not seem to match the charts (2014). Or am I missing something?
Yes, well spotted!!
It is of course 2014 – I’ll change
What would be interesting is a graph of CO2 concentration superimposed on the graph of cereal production.
Whoever compiled these charts is clearly way off-message as we’ve been repeatedly warned climate change was going to decimate agricultural crop yields. Someone needs to report for re-educating.