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American Midwest and Climate Change:

Life in America’s Breadbasket is Good and Getting Better

Our report, American Midwest and Climate Change: Life in America’s Breadbasket is Good and Getting Better, was just published. In it, we provide the science that disputes the claims of ongoing and future climate catastrophes.

We document that there is no climate crisis. In fact, we discover just the opposite. The ecosystems and agriculture in these ten Midwestern states are thriving and prospering partly because of modest warming and more CO₂.

Below is information provided by NOAA showing that maximum temperatures have declined since the Dust Bowl years of the late 1920s and 1930s and all the while CO₂ was steadily increasing.

We find that:

• High temperatures peaked 90 years ago.
• Recent temperatures are comparable to those nearly 100 years ago.
• Growing seasons are lengthening.
• Minimum winter temperatures are increasing (that is a good thing).
• There is a beneficial increase in precipitation.
• There is a decline in droughts, strongest tornadoes and heat-related deaths.
• Agricultural productivity has increased greatly.

Further, we find that a transition to "net zero" for the Midwest would make no improvement to the environment and be prohibitively expensive.

The cost to transition the 10 Midwestern states to so-called renewable power would cost more than $6 trillion, or $92,000 per capita. A theoretical effect of such a transition is calculated as averting 0.043⁰ C of warming by the year 2100, which translates to a cost of $14 trillion for each tenth degree of warming averted.

Download the entire report here (pdf).

American Midwest and Climate Change is our most recent in a series of state and regional reports. We are now in the process of a close look at Arkansas, Texas and Montana.

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Gregory Wrightstone

Executive Director

CO₂ Coalition