The Yields of Major Cash Crops such as Corn, and Wheat, are up!

Contrast between Continuing Improvements in US Health and Welfare and their Alleged Endangerment Described in the draft TSD
One of the problems with the EPA’s Endangerment TSD is the nearly complete disregard of observed trends in a wide array of measures which by and large show that despite decades of increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions the U.S. population does not seem to have been adversely affected by any vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts that may have arisen (to the extent that any at all have actually occurred as the result of any human-induced climate changes).
For instance, despite the overall rise in U.S. and global average temperatures for the past 30 years, U.S. crop yields have increased

(Figure 3-1), the population’s sensitivity to extreme heat has decreased (Figure 3-2), and our general air quality has improved (Figure 3-3). Further, there has been no long-term increase in weather-related property damage once changes in inflation, population size, and population wealth are accounted for (an essential step in any temporal comparison). All of these trends are in the opposite sense from those described in the EPA’s Endangerment TSD.
Figure 3-1: Yields of Major Cash Crops such as Corn and Wheat
Data sources: NCDC, USDA
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Figure 3-2. Average Annual Heat-Related Mortality Per Standardized Million People in the U.S.
(Source: Davis et al., 2003).

Figure 3-3. Trends in ozone air quality
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Source: http://www.epa.gov/airtrends/ozone.html
Perhaps, most significant of all, the average lifespan of Americans has increased (Figure 2-5).

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