Posted on 04/14/2013 1:25:05 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Staple foods will more than double in price by 2050 from extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will transform the way the world farms.
As food experts gather to discuss how to feed the nine billion people expected in 2050, leading scientists state that food insecurity risks turning parts of Africa into permanent disaster areas. Rising temperatures will drastically affect access to basic foodstuffs:
"Food production will have to rise 60% by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demand. The annual production gains we have come to expect will be taken away by climate change. We are worried about the vulnerability of the one billion people who are without food already and who will be hit hardest by climate change."
The draft US National Climate Assessment report predicts that a gradually warming climate and unpredictable severe weather will have serious consequences for farmers.
All crops will be affected by the temperature shift as well as livestock and fruit harvests, with more pests and less effective herbicides. The $50bn Californian wine industry could shrink as much as 70% by 2050.
The report follows recent disastrous harvests in Russia, Ukraine, Australia and the US. In 2010, climate-driven factors led to a 33% drop in wheat production in Russia and a 19% drop in Ukraine. Separate climate events in each case led to a 14% drop in Canada's wheat output, and a 9% drop in Australia.
The UN's World Food Programme director, said: "Climate change is the game changer that increases exposure to high and volatile food prices, and increases the vulnerability of the hungry poor, especially those living in conflict zones or areas of marginal agricultural productivity. We must act quickly to protect the world's poorest people."
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Communism: the worst plague ever on humanity and the lefties are still in love with it.
Their memory is selective. Scary. Very scary.
More warmth, more CO2, good gracious, it would be Eden again.
But no, we get stuck with what's actually happening, global cooling. Bah. I'm going to go out and burn some charcoal. And feed some eggshells to my earthworms. Tagline.
So, let’s just assume that there’s going to be the huge warming in the next forty years, and then let’s project a whole lot of pain because of it.
First, in the past few months, many have acknowledged that global warming hasn’t occurred in over fifteen years. The models projecting warming and sea level rise in the future are wrong.
Second, doomsdayers refuse to take into account how people will change their behaviors if the climate does change.
Odds at the outset are 50% the world’s warming.
Or, 50% it’s cooling.
Which would be worse for agriculture?
Tell them to call back when Greenland is green again.
2050? How much would my medicare be?
So, as growing seasons lengthen at the the higher latitudes, where most of the potential farm land is, millions face starvation.
Go figure.
Of course their global warming predictions are nonsense but even so, their doom and gloom analysis of food production seems unrealistic.
They concentrate on factors that “could” reduce food output in areas currently in production.
Yet they seem to ignore the tremendous increase in food production their imaginary global warming would bring to places like Alaska, Canada, Siberia, Scandanavia, etc.
Global Warming: a dangerous man-made phenomenon caused by the mixture of recycled Marxist ideas and junk science.
Don Feder
Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming 'greatest scam in human history'
Millions of square miles of land in Siberia and Canada are currently unusable for agriculture because of cold weather. Warmer temps would obviously make these frigid lands worth tilling.
food experts gather to discuss how to feed the nine billion people expected in 2050Let them eat cake.
They must be nuts. I saw colder than 10 below zero during the last few days (high altitude).
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
Hey, we’re giving away food stamps....come on in
bttt
Warming again? Let go of this bullsh*t, for pity’s sake...
Recommend that all liberals use all their nest egg money to buy up all the land they can in Antarctica and Siberia. Those will be the only places inhabitable because of Global Warning. Yes. Do it liberals. Put your money where your mouth is.
Cold kills 311 more in Russia, lost veggie crops in Belgium, more closed schools in Romania but its not the sun
http://iceagenow.info/2013/04/cold-kills-311-russia-lost-veggie-crops-belgium-closed-schools-romania-%E2%80%9Cbut-sun%E2%80%9D/
More than 25,000 sheep buried alive in the snow Far surpassing earlier estimates
http://iceagenow.info/2013/04/25000-sheep-buried-alive-snow-surpassing-earlier-estimates/
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