Posted on 05/14/2014 9:44:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What keeps you up at night?
That’s the question economist Gary Yohe, one of the architects behind the White House’s 2014 Climate Assessment report, posed to several of his co-authors during a May 6 panel in Washington D.C. Unsurprisingly, the assembled team of climate experts and other academics had no lack of answers, ranging from the possibility of more extreme weather events to the risk of climate-induced mental health degradation. But what keeps Iowa State University climate scientist Gene Wanker up at night is what climate change could do to one of humanity’s most basic needs.
“I worry about food security, both globally and in the U.S., because social unrest happens very quickly under food insecurity,” he told the panel.
The 2014 Climate Assessment paints a grim portrait of declining crop yields, rising food prices, and disrupted supply chains. And that’s just in the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.com ...
That’s funny considering mooch is campaigning against obesity
Then maybe we shouldn’t make automobile fuel from FOOD.
Hunger Crisis? The entitled use up their EBT card at the stripper club, casino, or trading food for drugs on the street! If no one doesn’t realize there is a black market utilizing EBT your Nutz!
Hunger crisis? That’s a laugh. We have the world’s fattest poor people!
America is starving for some truth and MSNBC is a major reason.
That also happens as the earth warms, and as rainfall increases or decreases. We lack the ability to adjust and to grow the crops from 60 miles south (because that's the latitude change needed to adapt to 100 years of predicted warming) or to change irrigation plans. It's amazing that we and the polar bears survived the Medieval Climate Optimum, which was even worse than the most pessimistic prediction for Global Climate Change. I just can't figure out why we called the medieval period with abundant crops an "optimum".
We have a hunger crisis?
They need to check out your average Walmart shopper.
Global warming would be a good thing for Riesling lovers. In Germany, where 60% of the world's Riesling is grown, warmer temperatures would allow growers to plant grapevines on land previously thought inhospitable to grapes.
How apt.
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