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by chrisco255 2508 days ago
Sigh, it's this kind of response that makes me convinced you have no arguments to the contrary.

Rice yields are up 40% since 1988: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl...

Corn's up 60%: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl...

Wheat is up 48% since '88: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/wwyld....

Cattle inventory looks steady: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Cattle/inv.php

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Just because it's sunny today, doesn't mean you should plan a picnic for tomorrow if all the forecasts say 100% rain. Will it rain? True, we don't _really_ know. Enjoy your sausages, friend! I'm sure they'll be plenty to go around.
What kind of argument is this? I give factual data showing that since 1988, crop yields are up significantly in the face of all this supposedly catastrophic CO2 emissions. And why wouldn't they be? Plants thrive on CO2. Plants grow faster with higher levels of CO2. Greenhouses literally have CO2 pumped into them to enable more rapid crop growth. The doomsday scenario about humanity's odds in the face of climate change are based on nothing rational. The water cycle that the planet has enabled for the past billion plus years isn't going to undergo any drastic changes. There will be plenty of rice, wheat, corn, and every other crop to go along with my sausage, my friend. For decades to come, short of a meteor impact or sudden increase in volcanic activity.
This is the equivalent of measuring a SV company's financials by the number of different snacks in its microkitchen.

Sure, it will be stable, or even improving, until one day (if we are unlucky) it will catastrophically collapse. If we want to figure out whether we'll be lucky, we'll have to look at actual figures (i.e., balance sheets) predicting the company's future, and it's not looking good.