Posted on 04/02/2018 8:06:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Examining how climate change could raise food insecurity risk across the world, researchers have projected that the flow of the Ganges river could more than double at 2 degrees Celsius global warming, with floods putting food production at risk in countries like India.
Using a new global model based on patterns of sea-surface temperatures and sea ice, the researchers looked at 122 developing and least-developed countries, mostly in Asia, Africa and South America.
The researchers examined projected changes in weather extremes and their implications for freshwater availability and vulnerability to food insecurity.
They found that warming was expected to lead to wetter conditions on average -- with floods putting food production at risk -- but agriculture could also be harmed by more frequent and prolonged droughts in some areas.
Wetter conditions were expected to have the biggest impact in South and East Asia and the areas worst affected by droughts were expected to be southern Africa and South America - where flows in the Amazon are projected to decline by up to 25 per cent, the findings showed.
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Good. It might flush out all the crap, pollution and bodies out to sea. Win, win.
Unfortunately it will take more than that to clean out that shithole.
There's the rub. They have a zillion models, none of which agree on anything. So what's the solution when all the existing models don't yield the politically acceptable answer? You got it! CREATE A NEW MODEL!
There’s that word again. “Could”. Nothing saying it will, but it “could”. This isn’t science or news. This is a phonyass guess by activist psychics in the “science” and “media” communities.
Et, Vwahla! Zee Ganges, it ees no longair a twahlay.
+1
Oh, yeah! "Develop Testable Predictions" and "Gather Data to Test Predictions." But who needs that dumb old Scientific Method, anyway? It was created by a bunch of dead white guys taking advantage of their white privilege. The Scientific Method needs to be updated with some good queering.
Maybe business writers would shut their mouths at 2 degrees Celsius warming.
Good.
It’s nasty...................
Actually, it’s better to have global warming. Why? Longer growing seasons for many staple crops. Global cooling would be a disaster because it would cut agricultural production.
Or.... it could not.
Then again it could not. Modelling is a guess using statistics which can be skewed depending how those numbers are weighted in the analysis.
Hmmmm. What is the corn production rate above 66 deg north anyway?
Most important the the temperature range required to initiate germination of seeds. Never is a colder temperature a trigger to initiate germination. Ever.
Geez - imagine how much it would increase if temperatures were to rise 5 degrees - or 10 - or 20.
Speculate among yourselves - just like the authors of the ‘study’ did.
Not sure how this is a problem. The Ganges is currently way below normal flow, with some stretches completely dry, due to volume being siphoned off for irrigation and other use. Presumably it wouldn’t just be the Ganges that gets more water, either. The other big rivers would also increase, and while there would likely be some challenges during the Monsoon, the increased flow is likely to be more of a benefit than a hazard. I would imagine that, in the long run, since water is already increasingly scarce in India, they’d find some way to capture some of that increased flow for use later, such as creating large reservoirs or artificial catch basins wherever possible.
Could...maybe...possibly...potentially...
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