The National Climate Assessment (NCA) has focused attention on Iowa, which is probably good, given how it is apparently in the public interest to examine what is being claimed about climate change in the Hawkeye State. On January 1, 2011, the Iowa Climate Change Impacts Committee released a "Report to the Governor and the Iowa General Assembly" entitled "Climate Change Impacts on Iowa: 2010." Information from this report was used in the NCA section on agriculture. Tom Philpott at Mother Jones wrote about the NCA's take on this Iowa climate change report in his subtly (note sarcasm) titled article "Our Alarming Food Future, Explained in 7 Charts." The following figure was republished from the NCA: Some major problems exist with this plot and the interpretations of it by the NCA, and -- of course -- Mother Jones. Philpott at Mother Jones wrote this about the figure above: "Iowa is hemorrhaging soil. A while back, I wrote about...(Read Full Article)