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Get used to surging food prices: Extreme weather is here to stay
https://www.ksl.com ^ | Aug. 13, 2021 | By Matt Egan, CNN Business

Posted on 08/14/2021 11:04:01 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

Devastating heat. Debilitating droughts. Crippling frost. Extreme weather is creating nightmares for farmers around the world — and making food more expensive for Americans.

Arabica coffee futures have almost doubled over the past year to seven-year highs as Brazil grapples with frost conditions that have wiped out crops. Retail coffee prices will likely follow suit.

Sugar prices are also on the rise, driven up by the frost in Brazil as well as dry weather in the Dakotas and Red River Valley. Wheat, one of the most common food sources for the average diet, has surged to the highest level in nearly eight years amid soaring temperatures and droughts.

The food price spikes demonstrate how extreme weather, much of it caused by the climate crisis, is having a real-world impact on Americans. And climate scientists warn the fallout will only intensify from here.

"Climate change is coming right into our dining room tables," Cynthia Rosenzweig, adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute, told CNN Business.

(Excerpt) Read more at ksl.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakescience; food; foodprices
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1 posted on 08/14/2021 11:04:01 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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We have always had extreme weather, nothing new.........................


2 posted on 08/14/2021 11:04:45 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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My government is making my food more expensive. Just stop.


3 posted on 08/14/2021 11:05:27 AM PDT by Irenic ( )
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>>The food price spikes demonstrate how extreme weather, much of it caused by the climate crisis, is having a real-world impact on Americans. And climate scientists warn the fallout will only intensify from here.<<

NOT what the science says.


4 posted on 08/14/2021 11:06:31 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Deflect blame away from the regime, as usual.


5 posted on 08/14/2021 11:06:32 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: RomanSoldier19

Farmers have always dealt with extreme weather, but have never had Joe Biden as president


6 posted on 08/14/2021 11:07:09 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (.A world in which dogs write poetry is more believable than the world as seen through the Media)
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To: RomanSoldier19

This article is a gullibility test.


7 posted on 08/14/2021 11:07:23 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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The only thing that is extreme these days is lefty propaganda.


8 posted on 08/14/2021 11:08:35 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Used to be one out of every fourth crop failed.

There is a reason the do not teach history any more.

9 posted on 08/14/2021 11:09:31 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I refuse to be afraid. I refuse to bow. I refuse to take any job I do not wish to. So BUZZ OFF!)
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"Climate change is coming right into our dining room tables," Cynthia Rosenzweig

I have enough of these over-schooled, know-nothing freaks destroying and/or excusing the destruction of our country.

10 posted on 08/14/2021 11:10:00 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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See, it used to be Global Warming. But damaging frosts have occurred. So ‘Global Warming’ is out. ‘Climate Change’ is in.

Ain’t science grand?


11 posted on 08/14/2021 11:11:31 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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This is why NASA is not going to put men er humans on the Moon in 2024 or 2034 or 2044.

They filled the agency with brain dead idiots—fatal error.


12 posted on 08/14/2021 11:12:11 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Biden and the Federal Reserve making it rain cash is now "extreme weather"?
13 posted on 08/14/2021 11:12:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Educated beyond their mental capacity.


14 posted on 08/14/2021 11:12:54 AM PDT by cp124 (Focus on treatment and not an experimental vaccine/flu shot.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Everything you need to know to debunk this nonsense is here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_egdS4871949youPFyvW_A

https://www.youtube.com/user/TonyHeller1

https://realclimatescience.com/

There are plenty of others as well, but these give you all the tools you need to destroy AGW useful idiots.


15 posted on 08/14/2021 11:13:18 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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More “climate crisis” propaganda, and the gullible may believe it.


16 posted on 08/14/2021 11:13:46 AM PDT by devere
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To: RomanSoldier19

Yeah, that’s right. The weather, the weather….that’s it.


17 posted on 08/14/2021 11:14:20 AM PDT by livius
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To: cgbg

Elon Musk may wind up doing it, just for fun.


18 posted on 08/14/2021 11:14:20 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A Leftist can't enjoy life unless they are controlling, hurting, or destroying others)
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To: PeterPrinciple

The experts are saying it will be colder in December - and then because of climate change in June it will be hot again!
Actually the bottom line about weather attribution is that in hindsight, the “experts” can say a particular drought or flood in a particular place is “consistent” with human-forced climate change. However they never have the nerve to forecast a specific drought or flood in a specific place at a specific time. Because they can’t.


19 posted on 08/14/2021 11:14:38 AM PDT by brookwood (Obama said you could keep your plan - Sanders says higher taxes will improve the weatheryour1ST)
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To: Leaning Right

Not just science: ChiComs are buying our croplands.


20 posted on 08/14/2021 11:14:46 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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