8 foods you're about to lose due to climate change

The Guardian ^ | October 29, 2014 | by Twilight Greenaway

[Oldeconomybuyer]

As worsening drought and extreme weather devastate crops, you may begin seeing global warming when you open your fridge.

According to David Lobell,deputy director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University, “The general story is that agriculture is sensitive. It’s not the end of the world; but it will be a big enough deal to be worth our concern.”

Lobell has already noticed the effect of climate change on some crops. For example, he says, yield data from corn and wheat production suggests that these two staples are already being negatively affected by the changing climate. Similarly, fruit and nuts are also showing the impact of climate change. Fruit trees require “chilling hours”, or time in cold, wintry environments, for optimum production.

Here’s a list of the foods to enjoy now – while they’re comparatively plentiful.

Corn (and the animals that eat it)

Coffee

Chocolate

Seafood

Maple syrup

Beans

Cherries

Wine grapes

[SZonian]

Uhm...no. I like sprouts.

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/brussels-sprouts-bacon

[SZonian]

Yep! See post 41 for another recipe...one of my favs.

[HiTech RedNeck]

yes... unless it is a particularly fiendish kind of warming that does not bother to warm up formerly cool/frozen areas.

and BEANS? that is one of the most robust things you can grow.

[jjotto]

Note she says “than it would have been” as she knows global corn production has never been higher, and has more than doubled in the last 30 years.

[cld51860]

If I remember correctly, we were all supposed to die a lingering painful death due to overpopulation - postulated from similar creatures - sometime in... 1980, I think??

[null and void]

From California .... climate victim ?

Yep.

The state cut off the Almond growers' water.

Entire orchards died. Hundreds of orchards.

Everyone was sooooprised sooooprised sooooprised!

[chajin]

I did not realize that Maple syrup was a crop.

That's what you get for being a sap

[RightGeek]

Climate change - there’s nothing it can’t do.

[null and void]

Actually the byproduct of ethanol production makes excellent cattle feed.

Or it would if it wasn't against the law to use "industrial waste" as cattle feed.

I wish I was kidding.

Look it up if you don't believe me.

[johniegrad]

More accurately, remove the “ligh” from her first name.

[trisham]

Thanks!

[Zeppo]

There's a nice debunking of Lobell's decreasing corn yields claims at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/05/03/claim-u-s-corn-yields-are-increasingly-vulnerable-to-hot-dry-weather-data-corn-yield-trend-positive/.

Yes, there are droughts from time to time, just as there were in the 1930s (for example), just as there have been throughout all of history. But connecting that with human-caused "climate change" is a non-scientific non-starter.

[oblomov]

The assertion is that 2012, 2013, and 2014 drought conditions are due to "climate change". This is questionable at best when once considers the historical variation.

[null and void]

Ethanol subsidizes cheap protein.

It would if it wasn't illegal to use the nutrient rich depleted mash as animal feed.

[Lakeshark]

How does ‘Miss’ Greenaway know that I haven’t ALREADY cornered the coffee and chocolate markets?

Whoa if TSHTF , you will likely get a visitor who has been swimming a loooong time to find you....

:-)

[jjotto]

http://www.grains.org/buyingselling/ddgs

[SZonian]

yqw

Share the love of sprouts!

Stop bigotry against sprouts!

[Billthedrill]

"Twilight Greenaway"? Good God. By the way, she's catching some serious hooting in the Comments section...in The Guardian, no less.

[oblomov]

The doomsayers haven’t been all wrong. Remember when we ran out of copper in 1997 and lead in 2002, just like they predicted?

[trisham]

LOL! I’m with you!