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  "path": "/2026/06/01/the-rice-catastrophe-paper-and-the-rcp-8-5-rug-pull/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-01T13:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://wattsupwiththat.com",
  "tags": [
    "Agriculture",
    "RCP 8.5 Science Fiction",
    "Climate Catastrophism",
    "rcp 8.5",
    "Rice Production",
    "The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull",
    "Watts Up With That?"
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  "textContent": "Rice has fed civilizations through the Holocene Climatic Optimum, the mid-Holocene warm spike, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age. The paper’s own author concedes that aggregate production can be maintained. The paper’s own introduction acknowledges that adaptation is already masking the warming that has occurred. And the paper’s thirty-times figure rests on a scenario that no longer exists in the literature.\n\nThe post The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull appeared first on Watts Up With That?.",
  "title": "The Rice Catastrophe Paper and the RCP 8.5 Rug-Pull"
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