Kellie our food production is down because of cheap imports, locking up of good land for food production, Govt over regulation, water restrictions, carbon tax and your ignorance.

Google Agenda 21 and the LIMA Agreement. They want to de-populate you and bring in an unelected world Govt. Google New World Order.

"analysis of satellite data shows that between 1982 and 2011, 20.5 percent of the world’s vegetated area got greener, while just 3 percent grew browner; the most likely causes are higher temperature, higher levels of carbon dioxide, or both."

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/374742/why-ipcc-report-neglects-benefits-global-warming-rupert-darwall

It takes a special kind of chutzpah to claim that plants are being killed by two of the three things which plants rely on for survival and growth.

cohenite

What Lysenko and the Irish Famine have in common, as well as the Chinese famines before and after Mao, the Russian famines under the Czar and the Soviets, and the Indian famines of the nineteenth century and the big one during WWII - to name a few - is that the people affected had long since had their means of localised self-sufficient food production and consumption taken away from them.

These countries all suffer/suffered the curse of centralised planning and decision making, which occurred thousands of miles away from where they lived and were undertaken by people who had absolutely no interest in their personal welfare. Instead, ideology ruled over compassion and common sense and food became a commodity for the rich patrons of the central controllers to trade and invest.

I certainly hope I'm wrong, but I do believe that global free trade is a global famine waiting to happen - with or without climate change.

Brina of Buderim, mollydukes, you are spot on. OLO is dying on its feet because a good idea has been poorly implemented. If the posts were moderated and trolling blocked debate might stand a chance.

Furthermore, OLO fails to enforce its own rules:

"General prohibitions

You must not up-load, post, transmit or otherwise make available through this site any material which:

may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to, or incite hatred of, any person.

restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying this site.

@Candide:

"You must not up-load, post, transmit or otherwise make available through this site any material which:

may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to, or incite hatred of, any person.

restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying this site."

Global warming alarmism, like religion, is clearly on the skids when it has to play the outrage card. "How dare you offend me by presenting facts and figures that refute my cherished beliefs! Moderators, remove this offensive person at once!"

Nothing shows more clearly the growing desperation of the warmistas than their increasingly frantic efforts to get their critics to shut up, SHUT UP, just SHUT UP!