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."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
yawn
We can just eat scientists.
It is the middle of April.
Warming?
Really?
Seems normal, even a bit on the cool side.
Who needs a memo? I’m getting kinda weary hauling my tomato plants in several nights a week- in South Texas.
I’m a lot more worried about cooling at this point. If we have a Dalton Minimum (or Maunder Minimum), we *will* have another famine. That’s not theory. That’s fact. No cars, no electricity, no “CFCs” last time that happened.
“And yet the Warmer crowd politically supports legalizing illegal immigrants and adding one million plus legal ones, which overwhelmingly crowd into the cities, causing urban sprawl and paving over fertile farmlands to make room. Not to mention trashing out the areas.”
Don’t forget that they also will be using a ton of more energy (electricity, gasoline, purchasing products that have to be manufactured and transported), than they would have used had they stayed south.
According to this article there are 1 billion people without food already.
Wow that’s really something.... a fifth of the world survives without eating!
Translated through the Truth-o-graph it reads: "HELP! Our state subsidies for this fraud are about to run out!"
Staple foods will more than double in price by 2020 from inflation, government interference, and bad economic policies.
Fixed it!
Well played and I fear you are correct. At the rate prices are increasing at my local grocery store it may be well before 2020!
North Koreans are already starving.It’s political, not climatological.We should no longer pay any attention to these
doomsday scenarios, which have existed (especially since the late 60’s (anybody remember Paul Erlich and the Paddock Brothers, who predicted global starvation encompassing virtually every nation) by 1975? In order to cover its bases,
Orgs like the UN awarded prizes to the Paddocks and an Indian Scientist whose name escapes me now, but whose policies actually DID save millions o$ Indians $rom starving, IN THE SAME YEAR!
Well, it hasn't affected their appetite.
... a cryptic Firesign Theater reference
They are preparing the ‘ground work’? Readying not only a ‘starving’ population; but the scapegoating for it? Oh; yes; not these ‘world Leftist ‘isms’ at work; but yes; the ‘warming’ - that is not; of course.
hahaha peeple starve because they didn’t have the guns
i am a genetically modified organism thank you thank you mom and dad hahahahaha
I just did. Not as many koolaid drinkers as I would have expected.
/bingo
Great bumper sticker. Low info citizens might 'get it'. . .and even some 'higher' info, Obama disciples.
Just grind-up these phoney “scientists” and their families...those starving can eat them. Voila...many problems solved.
Our terrible spring: the winners and the losers
Winter's hold on Germany lasted longer than usual this year, taking its toll not just on the moods of residents, but also on a number of economic sectors. Construction, agriculture, service and retail are all suffering, and experts warn the effects could be long-term.
Just last Friday, Dirk Nüsse stood at the summit station of his ski lift, looking out at the landscape incredulously. According to the calendar, it should have been spring there a long time ago, but before his eyes a snowboarder was cruising by wintry spruce trees, while frost-covered cable cars conveyed a seemingly endless number of winter sports enthusiasts up the mountain.
There is a thick blanket of snow on the Wurmberg, a peak in central Germany's Harz Mountains, one of the few places profiting from the cold weather that has held Germany in its grip for months. "The entire country is suffering from the cold temperatures, but we're clearly the winners of this long winter," says Nüsse. The 56-year-old manager of the Wurmberg cableway is glad that spring simply refuses to come this year. Ski season is normally over by mid-March, but he has just extended his winter operation by yet another week, which means that some 15,000 additional holidaymakers intend to hit the mountain's seven slopes. During a long winter like this, Nüsse's lift earns twice as much as usual.
Caught in the Cold: Long Winter's Grip Chokes German Economy
It has been conclusively demonstrated that the whole "climate change" farce is a hoax.
Yet, all of these institutions -- who have a stake in "climate change" -- believe they can maintain the lie. And they continue to pursue their political agenda (and profit motive) with a seemingly straight face.
Is it not illuminating that liberal institutions actually believe they can effectively propagate a monstrous lie against all the facts?
In this regard, the media is invaluable...and totally without scruple.
Actually I would like to think we could grind up thees and use them for fertilizer....cause as I much as eating is ok, trying to get that rancid taste out????
Good suggestion but with globull warming growing things is out I guess.
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