I would like to know more about the benefits of global warming. Will it reduced food cost?

Question

A longer growing season would seem to grow more food and lower the cost of food.
Warmer ocean temperature should increase rainfall expanding the area of land that can grow food.

Answer 1

Increased heat will damage pollen bearing insects and make crops harder to grow.

Flooding will kill valuable crop producing acerage.

2 sides to every coin

Answer 2

There will be a longer growing season and there will be more rain as you say. The idea that vast areas will become flooded is alarmist and as for food producing areas, they will expand as we'll be able to grow food at higher altitudes and areas such as Greenland will become fertile again.
The idea that plankton will die in warmer seas is silly, they'll just be further down where it's cooler. The seas won't actually change in temperature anyway, what will happen is that the warmer layer on top will increase, but the cooler layers will remain the same.
So there might be drought at the equator, this is not where most of the food is grown, most of the food is grown in temperate zones which are set to become more productive, stop panicking people.

Answer 3

Unfortunately, there are no real benefits to Global Warming. It would be nice, considering that's where we are headed. As far as a longer growing season goes, yes, things are warmer for longer. But a warmer climate is most often a drier climate, unless you live in a rain forest. Warmer ocean temperature can increase rainfall, but in won't often increase rainfall where we need rainfall. Not to mention, the more rain we get, the more likely it will be acid rain, there by killing more crops. The best situation would be a healthy planet. Sorry.

Answer 4

The longer growing season applies only to northern and southern latitudes away from the equator, and the available sunlight does not increase. Drought and flood areas will actually reduce the land available for cultivation, as will rising sea levels. As seafood becomes scarce because the plankton are dying from the heat, other food sources will make up the difference, so demand will increase for land-based foods. Also, the kinds of foods that will be suitable for the new growing areas may not be what the people in those areas are used to eating.

It's not simple, however much neocons might like it to be.

Answer 5

Earth has always seen an increase in world temperatures. This is the evolution of the earth from being an icy planet to the days that we are living now. It is a natural phenomena.

Global warming as claimed by the scientist are caused by gases like CO2, CH4 etc. One of the main contributors of CO2 emission are human beings, animals, plants, transport sectors and industrial activities.

In cold and icy climates, to increase the crop yield, often you require heat and light, which is the fundamental process for photosynthesis. So, artificial greenhouse effect is created for the plants, which in turn increases the heat for the plants. So, if there are natural global arming, may be plants will be benefited during winter times. But that may also sound negative during the other seasons.

Answer 6

Remember Global Warming is, in its natrual process, the swing from Ice Age, which we are only feeling as the last vestages melt away, to Tropic Age, which is the natrual expansion of the tropical forests and jungles. The forests are to the Tropic Age as the Ice Caps are to the Ice Age.

The problem is we are cutting down the trees. The older trees are cut the fastest, and they are the ones that are most critical to the tropic age water storeage.

While we can desalinate sea water and provide the irrigation support needed to provide the food supplies, much will have to change in our living styles. We would have to remove our building in Green Zones and use up the desert lands instead for our industries and housing. We would also have to establish multistoried evironmentally maintained growing houses for much of our food supplies.

There will be mixed blessings from our forray into the Tropic Age, but we are here, and it will be here for quite some time.

We have only been in the Tropic Age for a short time. Weather will be strange as the weather system adjusts. There will be, as there always have been, moments of quickening where things go really haywire. But they will always move to a settled down state for a while as well.

The biggest concerns right now are how to keep our society moving forward in the face of vanishing resources (oil is going to be gone in 10 - 15 years, more or less).

Answer 7

There are no benefits with Global warming! With the temp. rising and lack of rain do you really think we would have good growing seasons? The ice caps are melting, the air quality is changing and we have had more problems than ever before such as floods etc. Watch any trues science program on what has happened over the last 50 years. Talk with a weather man, look at satellite's pictures.Then ask your self your own question.Check out this site
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/satellite/index.html

Answer 8

Warmer ocean increases the number of hurricanes coming into the land. Too much rain is bad for farming. It is possible to produce enough food to feed the world now but we don't do it due to greed and unbalanced wealth. The earth is balanced and it is a very delicate balance so any changes can cause irreversible damage. Man is irresponsible. We are doomed.

Answer 9

no the longer growing season means that more water will be needed to keep the crops irriagated.
And the more more rain because of warmer oceans is not going to help- warmer oceans will help with more hurricanes and other storms- just look at how far in their hurricane alphabet they're going lately-to the point of starting again after we've had 26 storms.

Answer 10

But if the ambient temperature gets too hot, plants struggle to grow and you could end up with a food shortage

Answer 11

Warmer water temps = melting polar ice which = flooding which = less land for growing food which = less food.