Question: If the alleged CO2-induced food shortage is so dire, why are we paying American farmers not to farm 33 million acres, and why are we subsidizing the burning of 40% of American corn?

Global Food Shortage Becomes Urgent as Planet Warms - Live"Science"

As studies have shown previously, there's little land left to convert to farming, water supplies are drying up, and global warming is wreaking havoc on the growing seasons and contributing to weather extremes that destroy crops.

The CRP: Paying Farmers Not to Farm : NPR

[2005] This year, instead of crops, 34 million acres of American farmland will produce tall grass, pheasants and ducks. That's thanks to the Conservation Reserve Program, a USDA program to protect soil, streams and wildlife habitat on farms that accounts for about 8 percent of all farm subsidies in 2005.

Conservation Reserve Program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As of October 31, 2008, 33,570,000 acres (135,900 km2) of land were enrolled into CRP.

Blog: The bitter harvest of ethanol

Remember that ethanol consumes about 40% of US corn production.