Talk:Climate change and agriculture

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[edit] Climate Change / Global warming?

Is there any reason why this article is not called Global warming and agriculture, more in line with global warming or effects of global warming? This article should otherwise be moved, or, more precise, the redirection (that I just explored) should be reversed.. Hardern 16:57, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Too ambiguous

"Global warming would be able to modify the global distribution of water, possibly leading to several effects, both detrimental and beneficial."

What does that mean? We should not be including such meaningless statements in Wikipedia. {unsigned}

I agree, there are parts of this article that sound like POV for "don't worry about rising CO2 emissions; plants will be happy", and the section on climate modeling is far too negative about the uncertainties. It takes a pretty defeatist POV that we can't foresee or forecast anything at all about the potential impacts of climate change on plants or agriculture.Birdbrainscan 05:22, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Effect of agriculture on climate

I find the one way view this article presents very strange - when I first came here I was expecting something on the effects of agriculture on global warming, instead it only covers the effects of climate change on agriculture. Richard001 21:40, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Those are two different issues, really. Land use changes (deforestation in particular) are significant factors in altering climate, but the question for this page is the impact of rising CO2 plus climatic change on plants and agriculture. There is a large body of literature on this subject which this article only hints at. I'll try to pull in some relevant links and cites.Birdbrainscan 05:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

A similar point was raised by Hardern above. If this article is focused on response of agriculture to 20th/21st century climate change, then should it not be named Effects of global warming on agriculture in line with some other Wikipedia articles? Notably Effects of global warming which "main article" links to this page. I think it should. Deditos 13:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
I agree with Deditos and Richard001--"climate change and agriculture" implies treatment of their relationship; any good encyclopedia article with that title should address causes and effects regarding both terms. Cyrusc 22:31, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

I also think that "climate change and agriculture" is a better article than "effects of climate change on agriculture," at least until it become large enough to necessitate a split. Cyrusc 22:33, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Potential effect of atmospheric carbon dioxide on yield

This section is too wordy and takes too long to get to the point. I've made a start at tightening it up, while also stating some basic background. But it still needs more work. I've got course readings that include several journal articles on this subject. I can try to fill in some refs from those in a future edit.Birdbrainscan 05:17, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I added an image that should help --Appanouki 05:48, 28 July 2007 (UTC) If the image doesn't look right, please help format it instead of just callously deleting it. Appanouki 16:39, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] factually incorrect

The claim that the warmest 3 years on record have been in the last 5 years (ie since 2002), is simply not true. This is an encyclopedia, if you present a fact, it must be true.

[edit] No Real Definition of Agriculture

Is it to be presumed that only people who know what Agriculture is will read this Article? Despite all the Latin Roots of the word, there isn't a real understanding of the term. If the meaning is not familiar to you, you end up finding yourself in a verbal loop where the definition includes the word "Agriculture" so u wouldn't be able 2 understand the definition if you didn't understand the word.

It's a minor thing, but I'm just saying. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Niwdog (talk • contribs) 12:11, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Lose the IM-speak if u want ne body 2 tk u seriously, dude. Raymond Arritt (talk) 14:40, 5 January 2008 (UTC)