Satellite monitored temperature data are now in, and show that during their entire life span there has been no global warming that could be ascribed to human activity. The popular media continues to lead Americans to believe that global environmental changes are heading us to disaster. This related to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, thus speeding the rate and magnitude of a global warming. Beneath all of this rhetoric, the evidence is that the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are very favorable for the most essential of human activities, and our most important renewable resource, namely the production of food. Not many people think of it in this way, but food, climate, and the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are uniquely interrelated.
Food production is a critical and an essential renewable resource.
Without food, the human race would not survive. The production of this renewable resource, upon which all life depends, is possible only through photosynthesis, the most important of biochemical processes. An essential raw material, almost always in short supply, is the low level of atmospheric carbon dioxide. For example, an acre of corn crop, must process over 40,000 tons of air to produce the record yield of more than 130 bushels per acre recorded in the U.S. for 1995. Globally, some 25 crops stand between people and starvation.