UQx DENIAL101x 5.4.3.1 Agricultural impacts
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 26/05/2015

How could increased CO2 affect our crops? Although CO2 is important to plants, changes in other conditions such as water, nutrients, and pests are likely to mean that more CO2 will not mean better crops. About Denial101x...

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Reference:
Porter, J.R.  L. Xie, A.J. Challinor, K.Cochrane, S.M. Howden, M.M. Iqbal, D.B. Lobell, & M.I. Travasso. (2014) Food security and food production systems. In: Climate Change 2014 :I mpacts,Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Field,C.B., V.R.Barros, D.J.Dokken, K.J.Mach, M.D.Mastrandrea, T.E.Bilir, M.Chatterjee, K.L.Ebi, Y.O.Estrada, R.C.Genova, B.Girma, E.S.Kissel, A.N.Levy, S.MacCracken, P.R.Mastrandrea, and L.L.White(eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp.485-533.  http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/WGIIAR5-Chap7_FINAL.pdf

Additional reading:

IPCC 2014 report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (full report)
http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/report/full-report/

IPCC 2014 report: Chapter 7 on Food Security and Food Production Systems
http://ipcc-wg2.gov/AR5/images/uploads/WGIIAR5-Chap7_FGDall.pdf

EPA Agriculture and Food Supply
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/agriculture.html

US National Climate Assessment 2014: http://www.globalchange.gov/nca4