However, I am curious whether you will do the same with respect to the diminished nutritional value
of these
crops, the increased global prevailence and severity
of droughts, diminished
agricultural output in Indonesia, etc, or, as is suggested by your
response, do you intend to «accentuate the positive» with regard to climate change by omitting the costs?
U.S. Department
of Agriculture data tables provide evidence for the importance
of the eight Midwest states for U.S.
agricultural production.3 Evidence for the effect
of future elevated carbon dioxide concentrations on
crop yields is based on scores
of greenhouse and field experiments that show a strong fertilization
response for C3 plants such as soybeans and wheat and a positive but not as strong a
response for C4 plants such as corn.