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Now we spend a lot of time thinking about how climate will affect crops. But crops affect climate themselves and they do this in two ways. First of all, about one-quarter of the land surface is used for growing crops. Another 10-15 % are used for pasture. So a substantial amount of the land surface is used in crop and agricultural production. And how we used that land affects our climate? If we were, for example, to deforest a substantial area and replace it with a natural crop such as soybean. Then we would alter the characteristics of the land surface, alter the way that water and heat flows from the land surface to the atmosphere and back, and ultimately change the regional climate if there is a large enough change in land surface. So this is an absolutely fascinating topic and one that’s really quite difficult to understand because of the complexity. It’s difficult because it needs us as crops scientists to work even more closely with our climate scientist colleagues. And it’s difficult because we have to join our models together.
Crops affect climate themselves and they do this in two ways, and one is that crops ultimately change the regional climate change if there is a large enough change the land surface, and this is fascinating and difficult to understand because of the complexity, so crops scientists need to work with climate scientists and join their models together.
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Crops can affect climate in two ways. A substantial amount of land surface is sued for agricultural production. If we deforest a land and plant crops instead, the characteristics of the land surface will be altered, which will ultimately change the regional climate. The topic is difficult to understand because of the complexity. Therefore, this requires the cooperation between crop scientists and climate scientist s and integration of two different models. (71 words)
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