What are farmers doing besides feeding the rest of us?

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What are farmers doing besides feeding the rest of us?

A NASA satellite found some odd readings over the United States. Global warming proponents thought they were onto something. They were surprised to find this image was a manifestation of the force of farming in the United States. This satellite image shows the photosynthesis of America's 100 million acre Corn crop. Further research found the US corn crop, at it's peak, produces 40% more oxygen than the Amazon rain forest.

Good news, but a little hyped, here are the articles:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...rth-180950460/

https://www.nasa.gov/press/goddard/2...-us-corn-belt/

and....

The United States’s Corn Belt is making its own weather

The Great Plains of the central United States—the Corn Belt—is one of the most fertile regions on Earth, producing more than 10 billion bushels of corn each year. It’s also home to some mysterious weather: Whereas the rest of the world has warmed, the region’s summer temperatures have dropped as much as a full degree Celsius, and rainfall has increased up to 35%, the largest spike anywhere in the world. The culprit, according to a new study, isn’t greenhouse gas emissions or sea surface temperature—it’s the corn itself.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018...ts-own-weather

[everready73]

Interesting it produces that much oxygen and can change weather patterns

One of my buddies posted on Facebook badgering all the people making a big deal about the fires in the Amazon and listed the 10% more oxygen stat. I was skeptical at first, but found some info to back it up

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

See we can change the weather!!! is all that the global warming pimps will see.....

[The_War_Wagon]

So we should bulldoze inner cities (and state universities!), and grow more corn on that land, is what I'm reading here!

[flenna]

So now not only do we have to kill all the cows and ban jet planes but also stop growing corn.

[AndyLate]

Cattle/sheep grazing and cutting hay for them also mitigates the fire danger in the prairies.

Growing clover and alfalfa for hay provides food for wild and cultivated bees, hummingbirds, and butterflies.

Crops provide feed and shelter for a wide variety of wild animals as well.

Andy

[Honu]

we need to study what places in the US produce the most garbage and pollution per sqft contain everything in them FORCE them to go vegetarian and become self sufficient would be nice to maybe put a huge bubble over them if we could but just some physical walls around them don't want those types spreading after all like in some hollywood movies or just kill everyone in them for being the worst polluters

when they ban meat wonder where the fertilizer is going to come from

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

we need to study what places in the US produce the most garbage and pollution per sqft contain everything in them FORCE them to go vegetarian and become self sufficient would be nice to maybe put a huge bubble over them if we could but just some physical walls around them don't want those types spreading after all like in some hollywood movies or just kill everyone in them for being the worst polluters

when they ban meat wonder where the fertilizer is going to come from

People...

[glocktogo]

So we should bulldoze inner cities (and state universities!), and grow more corn on that land, is what I'm reading here!

Well it would substantially reduce the amount of wasted oxygen!

[Uni-Vibe]

What are farmers doing? Collecting welfare checks while proclaiming the moral benefits of free markets, small government, and rugged individualism.