"Man-made" climate change (CC) / global warming is causing SE Asia rice harvest to decline? Another proof that the climate
alarmism movement is based on dishonesty, deception and lies. SE Asia rice
production keeps rising, not falling.
Climate Change
Causing Southeast Asia Rice Harvests to “Dwindle”… NOT!
David Middleton / November 14, 2018
Crop losses are caused more by rising rivers and lakes, heavy flooding by monsoon rains, not by rising sea level. And here is the climate alarmism article from the Straits Times, it keeps
harping about "rising sea level", far out.
Last July, the Philippines, Central and North Luzon in particular, experienced bad monsoon, about 2 weeks of
rains day and night. Many rice fields were heavily flooded, young crops were
damaged, some farmers have to replant. By August, another monsoon, 1 week of
rains day and night, another round of crop losses for many rice farmers. Also
bangus/milk fish farmers, their fish cages were overflowing with water,
hundreds of thousands of caged fishes escaped and began swimming on the roads and
streets. By September, a strong storm "Mangkhut" that dumped huge
volume of rain water again aside from its strong winds. Good that somehow many
crops survived and there were harvests last October.
We need more dams to 'harvest' and store lots of rain
water during the wet season yearly, reduce flash flood. We also need
large-scale dredging of many rivers and lakes that become depository of eroded
soil, mud during flash flooding. But governments would rather spend huge tax
money on many climate bureaucracies, climate meetings and junkets, in the
country and abroad. Very wasteful.
In terms of absolute production, the giant rice producers
are #1 Indonesia, #2 Vietnam, #3 Thailand, #4 Myanmar. PH only #5. One reason
is huge rice lands devoted to rice farming in those top 4 countries. VN and TH
for instance have about 10-11 M hectares each for rice farming alone, PH has
about 4.4 M hectares. Chart from the WUWT article.
CC is REAL, it is true. But it is not man-made, it is
nature-made. It is natural, and cyclical. We've had CC since the planet was born
4.6 B years ago, we have CC now, and we'll have CC in the next 4 B years or so.
Warming-cooling-warming-cooling-warming-cooling....
In 24 hours, it’s day-night cycle.
In a year in the tropics, it’s wet-dry cycle.
In the N and S Hemisphere, it’s winter-spring-summer-fall
cycle.
In the ocean, it’s El Nino-La Nina cycle (about 6 years on average)
In the atmosphere, it’s water evaporation-condensation
cycle.
In the Sun, it’s solar maximum-minimum cycle (every 11
yrs on average).
Then there are hydrogen cycle, carbon cycle, etc.
Then there are hydrogen cycle, carbon cycle, etc.
The climate alarmism movement is a denier. Deny that
there is warming-cooling cycle. Deny that CC is natural and cyclical. Deny that
global warming happened in the past even with zero car, mall, coal plant. Deny
that global cooling will happen after the global warming phase. Deny that CO2,
the gas that humans and animals exhale, the gas that plants and trees need to
produce their own food, is a useful gas.
Even IRRI joins the climate alarmism movement and does not recognize that CC is natural and cyclical. After the medieval warm period (MWP), it was followed by the little ice age (LIA) that ended in mid-1800s, then global warming resumed, the modern warm period, now we are in a transition towards global cooling phase. We should expect more rains and flood, not less. We should have more dams, not more climate bureaucracies and junkets.
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See also:
Agri Econ 25, On DA's plan for solar irrigation, February 06, 2017
Agri Econ 26, Biotech products, July 22, 2018
Agri Econ 27, On rice tariffication and trade liberalization, November 14, 2018
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