Global Warming [Allegedly] Reduces Grain Output in Inflation-Ridden India - BusinessWeek
April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Rising temperatures and inadequate rainfall in India is stagnating grain output, threatening food security in the world’s second-most populous country, according to a weather scientist.[But wait: If carbon dioxide is so devastating for crop yields in India, why was year 2000 yield over three times year 1961 yield?!]
India wheat yield in HG per Ha, 1961 = 8507
India wheat yield in HG per Ha, 2000 = 26213
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The answer in large part is Norman Borlaug. Borlaug pioneered the agriculture revolution and the reason Ehrlich's and Holdren's prediction look so rediculous. Borlaug's wheat variety quadrupled India's grain output fed a hungry world. Borlaug recently died with little media attention to his accomplishments. Holdren's 1970s prediction says we should all be dead by now yet he continues to win awards for predicting things that do not happen.
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