I hope you noticed your quote specifically says correlated. Also, you're presenting an argument that has actually been looked at for decades in the literature,

I hope you noticed your quote specifically says correlated. Also, you're presenting an argument that has actually been looked at for decades in the literature, which would be evident from a leisurely google scholar search of terms such as: climate change, CO2, respiration, net ecosystem production, terrestrial vegetation, food supply, etc. I've attempted to grab some links to papers that seem to be publicly available. [5] is a review from the Royal Society, and [3] is straight out of Science if you care about credentials. 2001. [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00383.x/pdf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.... 1994. [2] http://ecoethics.net/cyprus-institute.us/PDF/Rosensweig-Food-Supply.pdf http://ecoethics.net/cyprus-institute.us/PDF/Rosensweig-Food... 2006. [3] http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/26790/PDF http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/26790/PDF 2004. [4] http://www.preventionweb.net/files/1090_foodproduction.pdf http://www.preventionweb.net/files/1090_foodproduction.pdf 2005. [5] http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/360/1463/2125.full.pdf http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/360/14...