Americans Have Planted So Much Corn That It's Changing the Weather

[RockRaven]

2. And yet no amount of corn planted elsewhere will save any of these farmers when temperature

starts "trumping" drought... i.e. when dryness (at the wrong time) dominates precipitation (at the wrong -- or is it right for purposes of drought-discussion? -- time).


And that moment has already arrived. I more than half-wonder if this story published in this news outlet is not provoked/prodded/planted by climate-denial-industry types -- consider that a week or so ago there were a rash of articles (including those reposted on DU) about how higher temps in the corn belt during planting/growing season would mean less moisture in the soil in those regions, meaning bad yields...

and a week or two later we now get articles about how there is totes lots of rain because of all the corn being planted...


One cannot expect this to be a golly-gee-whiz-coincidence, right?