2016’s Record Warmth Brought Record Crop Yields, Fewer Storms
By Paul Homewood
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/19/2016s-record-warmth-brought-record-crop-yields-fewer-storms/
From the Daily Caller:
Climate scientists declared 2016 the warmest year on record, sending shockwaves through the media, which immediately began attributing the warming to fossil fuel use.
Earth is “heading toward levels that many experts believe will pose a profound threat to both the natural world and to human civilization,” The New York Times warned. Global average temperature was less than a one-hundredth of a degree Fahrenheit warmer than 2015.
While the media worried about anthropogenic global warming scenarios, some good news in 2016 was likely missed: record crop yields and relatively fewer storms.
Global crop yields hit record levels, according to United Nations data. Production of wheat, coarse grains and rice are forecasted to be higher in 2016 than the previous year. The United Nations expects cereal production to be 1.7 percent, or 44 million metric tons, higher than 2015.
U.S. corn and soybean yields hit record levels in 2016, according to U.S. government data. Corn production rose 15.1 billion bushels, or 11 percent, from 2015, and soybean production rose another 4.31 billion bushels, or 10 percent, over the previous year.
University of Colorado professor Dr. Roger Pielke, Jr. noted the record crop yields and few natural disasters.
Pielke was chased out of climate research in 2015 after being attacked by Democratic lawmakers and some of his colleagues for questioning claims global warming was making extreme weather worse.
Pielke explained that while 2016 had record-high temperatures, it wasn’t a very extraordinary year for tropical storms.
Fewer major tropical cyclones made landfall in 2016 compared to 2015. In fact, tropical cyclone numbers for 2016 were below the 40-year average.
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue tweeted:
Maue also noted that 2016 wouldn’t have likely been a record warm year without an incredibly strong El Nino warming event.
Reinsurance company Munich Re said 2016 had the most losses from storms and other natural disasters since 2012, at $175 billion globally. Though the biggest loss came from earthquakes in Japan, events which have nothing to do with the weather.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/19/2016s-record-warmth-brought-record-crop-yields-fewer-storms/
And as I noted a couple of weeks ago, last year was close to being a record low year for US tornadoes:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/wcm/2016/torngraph-big.png
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It’s very strange that this news has not been reported by the BBC. I expect Matt McGraff will do so shortly as an update to his article “New crop varieties ‘can’t keep up with global warming'” which he produced in June 2016. Maybe even Cardinal Horrorbin will report it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36579125
The BBC and their fellow travelers are institutionally and intellectually incapable of seeing or saying anything positive about the climate.
Delingpole is correct when he calls them the “wankerarti”.
Reblogged this on Climatism and commented:
Bloody “global warming” or “climate change” or whatever they prefer to call it that has caused record crop yields and less extreme weather!
Donald’s here now. The climate change page on the White House website has already gone.
You posted while I was writing mine!!
HadSST3 is now complete for 2016 and confirms how the oceans made climate the last two years.
https://rclutz.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/oceans-make-2015-2016-climate/
Let me give you a NEWS ALERT!! On January 20, 2017, at 12:00 pm Donald John Trump took the oath of office as 45th President of the United States. AT 12:01, the Climate Change Page DISAPPEARED from the White House website. Your climate hoaxers may be curled up in fetal position sucking their thumbs. If you have a chance, I recommend listening to his Inaugural address. It is not too long, but long enough to call out the establishment–who were sitting behind him–and promise that we would once more be about all the people and not just the elites. President Trump, already starting to “Make America Great Again!
Here is a link to the full text and the Donald Trump giving his Inaugural Address yesterday from The Daily Signal:
http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/20/read-the-full-text-of-president-trumps-inauguration-speech/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=SpecialEdition&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTjJZeU56RXhNelF6TVdKbCIsInQiOiJia1FiNTZ2VEJzSWM4WTQxbDQwc0Rlb09HZ0F3OElVWmRvM2EwVnhReFwvMjVUR1c3bUVtRmN0eWs4cmFJNVJiN1QrZXZ6NUhcL3U2WXZiRHlFRDJNOE4zWG9JTm1rSDNLRElaQ29QSEhnR2ZnZ2lJS3dZaVNcL1hQM1kwdnpVY3lseSJ9
This link is a good look at the obstacles in Trump’s way if he wants to muzzle the EPA-.
http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/12/7/13855470/donald-trump-epa-climate-regulations
Prof. Jody Freeman advised the Obama presidency on these matters and is clearly a committed warmist. However I think the way she presents the legals (in some detail) is pretty fair. She ends up being rather upbeat about how difficult Trump and Scott Pruitt will find it to do real damage to the EPA and the Clean Power Plan. She thinks the ‘endangerment finding’ regarding CO2, which underpins the key regulations, is secure. But maybe she’s never encountered anything like Trump before, so perhaps there is hope.
Most of the recent reams of US Environmental legislation during the Obama terror was predicated on a monstrous misdirection and lie
Obama was clever with his venal ways and Cultural Marxist law manipulators, they needed a bugaboo and It was a whopper, that CO₂ was somehow, preposterously declared to be an atmospheric poison.
Trump’s boys need to get right to the rub, bin the CO₂ IS A POISON….. myth and the whole pack of cards collapses thus, ‘ legally enforced’ can disappear – goes out of the window.
The New York Times had two versions of the “hottest year”stuff.
not 2014, 2015, nor 2016 was warmer than we were told it was in the early 1990s
In January of 1996 the New York Times published the record high 1995 global temperatures at that time…
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-…
The values that were provided by NASA/GISS and by the British group were closely similar…58.72°F and 59.7°F. Both of these values are higher than those just reported for 2016 by NOAA: 58.64°F
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This is why it is essential to take a copy of anything you may wish to use as evidence later. Unfortunately the Wayback machine didn’t have a record.
Here is the link, I think:
And the only additional info I have is that the temperature reported by NOAA was 58.69F, not 58.64F, but still below the temps reported in the NYT article about global temperatures in 1995 – 58.72 and 59.7.
The new energy policy statement replacing the Climate Change page on the White House web site is worth a look. Climate change is gone.
Reblogged this on WeatherAction News and commented:
Warmth is always better than cold
‘Maue also noted that 2016 wouldn’t have likely been a record warm year without an incredibly strong El Nino warming event.’
Exactly, but many in the media seem either too dim or too unwilling to take this in, preferring fake sensation to facts.
flicking through the reports on agriculture, the word “benign weather” pops up regularly- says it all.