A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones

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This from the Wall Street Journal.
Corn and other crops moving North... along with Land Values.

BTW a temporary cyclical cooling due to solar Minimum, does NOT negate AGW, which will make it less severe, and AGW driven by Greenhouse Gases, will continue both along side AND After that Minimum abates.

A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones
Longer growing seasons help lead northern farmers to plow up forests for crops such as corn that were once hard to grow in chilly territories
A Warming Climate Brings New Crops to Frigid Zones

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LA CRETE, Alberta—The farm belt is marching northward.​

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Upper Alberta is bitter cold much of the year, and remote. Not much grows other than the spruce and poplar that spread out a hundred miles around Highway 88 north toward La Crete. Signs warn drivers to watch for moose and make sure their gas tanks are filled. Farms have produced mostly wheat, canola and barley. Summers were so short farmer Dicky Driedger used to tease his wife about wasting garden space growing corn.​

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Today, Mr. Driedger is the one growing corn. So are many other northern-Alberta farmers who are plowing up forests to create fields, which lets them grow still more of it. The new prospect of warmer-weather crops is helping lift farmland prices, with an acre near La Crete selling for nearly five times what it fetched 10 years ago.​

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One reason is the warming planet and longer growing seasons. Temperatures around La Crete are 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit warmer on average annually than in 1950, Canadian federal climate records show, and the growing season is nearly two weeks longer.​

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“A few degrees doesn’t sound like much,” said Mr. Driedger, 56, who has farmed for three decades in the area roughly as far north as Juneau, Alaska. “Maybe it doesn’t make such a big difference on wheat or canola, but on corn, it sure does.” In August, he watched a tractor-size tiller yank tree roots from the earth, which were to be piled up and ignited in giant bonfires to create new fields.​

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AVERAGE ANNUAL TEMPERATURE IN LA CRETE, ALBERTA​

1950-2010​

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LAND VALUE, CHANGE FROM PREVIOUS YEAR​

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Thank God for interglacial periods.

 

[abu afak]

Thank God for interglacial periods.

Your usual Stupidity/troll.

That OF COURSE depends on what caused them and how far they go.
As humans we don't want to be literally drowning ourselves as Some past natural total immersions/melts did. They stopped too late for what NOW is the very dense and coastal human population.

the last time the earth hit 400PPM (3 Mil Yrs ago) Sea Level was app 50' higher, and we are headed for 500PPM.

The recent AGW/Spike is the result of CO2 exploding at 100x-200x the Natural rate at the beginning of our Interglacial (from 17, 500-11,500 years ago) but had peaked about 6000 yrs ago, then dropped until WE spiked the CO2 and the Warming that is racing ahead for the full melt :::: 240' higher Sea level.

You're a Dishonest Troll who cannot debate anything.
You have illogical beliefs about everything, and ergo should stay in the Religion section citing NT where Fantasy is tolerated, even welcome.

(maybe try your only other stupid-pet-trick Graphics drop as you are Non-Conversant beyond One line/Ten words on anything except your fantasy of what god/ is... and can't do what I just did above: a coherent factual narrative)

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Your usual Stupidity/troll.

That OF COURSE depends on what caused them and how far they go.
As humans we don't want to be literally drowning ourselves as Some past natural total immersions/melts did. They stopped too late for what NOW is the very dense and coastal human population.

the last time the earth hit 400PPM (3 Mil Yrs ago) Sea Level was app 50' higher, and we are headed for 500PPM.

The recent AGW/Spike is the result of CO2 exploding at 100x-200x the Natural rate at the beginning of our Interglacial (from 17, 500-11,500 years ago) but had peaked about 6000 yrs ago, then dropped until WE spiked the CO2 and the Warming that is racing ahead for the full melt :::: 240' higher Sea level.

You're a Dishonest Troll who cannot debate anything.
You have illogical beliefs about everything, and ergo should stay in the Religion section citing NT where Fantasy is tolerated, even welcome.

(maybe try your only other stupid-pet-trick Graphics drop as you are Non-Conversant beyond One line/Ten words on anything except your fantasy of what god/ is... and can't do what I just did above: a coherent factual narrative)

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Nothing unusual at all. Just another ordinary interglacial period.

 

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the last time the earth hit 400PPM (3 Mil Yrs ago) Sea Level was app 50' higher

I rest my case.

 

[irosie91]

I rest my case.

I will practice my back-stroke

 

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the last time the earth hit 400PPM (3 Mil Yrs ago) Sea Level was app 50' higher

And you seriously don't see the disconnect? Why isn't the sea level 50' higher today?

 

[mamooth]

And you seriously don't see the disconnect? Why isn't the sea level 50' higher today?

Because it takes a few centuries to reach the new equilibrium.

This is very basic stuff, and you always faceplant hard at it.

 

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Because it takes a few centuries to reach the new equilibrium.

This is very basic stuff, and you always faceplant hard at it.

The GHG effect is an instantaneous physical phenomenon which can be calculated using simple physics like they do for the entire atmosphere of GHG's.

 

[mamooth]

The GHG effect is an instantaneous physical phenomenon

Yeah, but the temperature of the oceans is not an "instantaneous physical phenomenon."

 

[ding]

Yeah, but the temperature of the oceans is not an "instantaneous physical phenomenon."

Correct, it's taken thousands of years for the oceans to warm back up to their pre-glacial temperature which has nothing to do with atmospheric CO2. And the oceans will continue to warm up until the next glacial period is triggered.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Because it takes a few centuries to reach the new equilibrium.

This is very basic stuff, and you always faceplant hard at it.

LOL! That's fucking hilarious! The late night Progressive "comedians" are looking for new comedy writers, I'll send this to them!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The GHG effect is an instantaneous physical phenomenon which can be calculated using simple physics like they do for the entire atmosphere of GHG's.

It's only takes a second for CO2 to melt the ice caps and kill the polar bears, but raising the sea levels is hard work that Americans don't want to do, that's why we have to import Illegals

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yeah, but the temperature of the oceans is not an "instantaneous physical phenomenon."

Soooooooooooooo how is atmospheric CO2 melting the coral?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Yeah, but the temperature of the oceans is not an "instantaneous physical phenomenon."

Stop posting, go check your CIA handbook, you really kind of suck off script

 

[irosie91]

Correct, it's taken thousands of years for the oceans to warm back up to their pre-glacial temperature which has nothing to do with atmospheric CO2. And the oceans will continue to warm up until the next glacial period is triggered.

so March is out for a pleasant warm dip in North-east Atlantic?

 

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so March is out for a pleasant warm dip in North-east Atlantic?

Probably so.