I’m pretty sure I have seen this one before, but, not sure. Regardless, it’s another in a long line of “Doom is coming SOON!”
Wait, I don’t have global heating on here?
Rising global temperatures are set to devastate food crops across the world, with particularly alarming impacts projected for the United States, where production of key crops could plummet 50% by the end of the century, according to a sweeping new analysis.
Of the many impacts of the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis, damage to the global food system is one of the most terrifying. But the overall impact of climate change on crops — and how much it can be offset by farmers’ adaptations — has been hard to establish and hotly debated.
The new analysis, eight years in the making, is “the first attempt to really tackle both of those problems,” said Solomon Hsiang, a study author and professor of global environmental policy at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
The scientists analyzed six crops — maize, soybeans, rice, wheat, cassava and sorghum — in more than 12,000 regions across 54 countries. Together, these crops provide more than two thirds of humanity’s calories.
Climatic weather has always been a challenge, both positive and negative. Things do not stay the same. A big part of the French Revolution during the Little Ice Age was the inability to grow staple foods, especially wheat, causing discord amongst the peasants. Warm and cool periods have brought their own challenges. When you plant for a certain range of temperatures, water supply, etc, and things happen outside that, well, problems. Like, say, during the Dust Bowl period in the Midwest. Technology and practices get better. But, these cultists always proclaim doom from CO2
Their findings are stark. Every 1 degree Celsius the world warms above pre-industrial levels will drag down global food production by an average of 120 calories per person per day, according to the study, published Wednesday in Nature.
“If the climate warms by 3 degrees, that’s basically like everyone on the planet giving up breakfast,” he said. The world is currently on track for around 3 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the century.
It’s a measly 1.5C since 1850. People mostly seem to be doing OK.
If humans keep burning large amounts of fossil fuels, maize production could fall by 40% in the grain belt of the US, eastern China, central Asia, southern Africa and the Middle East; wheat production could fall by 40% in the US, China, Russia and Canada; and soybean yields could fall 50% in the US.
And, yet, most Warmists, from CNN who wrote the article to the people involved with the “study” to the base Warmists have most not given up their own use of fossil fuels. Go figure.
