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8 foods you're about to lose due to climate change
The Guardian ^ | October 29, 2014 | by Twilight Greenaway

Posted on 10/29/2014 3:50:06 PM PDT by 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

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; climategate; hoax; marxism
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To: GeronL

Grain and fiber crops of course involve cutting but you can also gather crops like apples.

I have no connection to farming other than that an uncle managed a west Texas ranch 50 years ago. But I enjoy reading about small scale farming, organic farming, beekeeping, farming with horsepower and so forth. There’s a great little journal if you like that sort of thing:

http://www.farmingmagazine.net/


81 posted on 10/29/2014 4:37:18 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: trisham
I was at a pot luck some years ago and had some casserole that was sprouts and chipped beef. I tried to find the person who had made it but could not. It was great.
82 posted on 10/29/2014 4:37:59 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: GeronL

“cauliflower reminds me of cabbage for some reason”

Both are members of the Brassica oleracea family.


83 posted on 10/29/2014 4:39:26 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: Pelham

they have a similar smell


84 posted on 10/29/2014 4:40:57 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From the same country that brought us Piers Morgan and George III.


85 posted on 10/29/2014 4:41:22 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If David Lobell were to actually do some honest work with his hands in agriculture, he might learn something. The article is sterile waste.

What natural, physical events might really affect agriculture:

* The magnetic field has been moving and even weakening in some areas. Unusual weather patterns may be a result.

* We’re still in an extended solar minimum and will continue to see some unusual temperature fluctuations, mostly toward cold.

* Unusually common immorality in a nation.

There will continue to be corn and wheat crops. With enough misinformation and mismanagement, the big shots might discontinue some of those crop efforts. That’s fine. Our agricultural base should be less centralized and more distributed anyway.

Refuse the propaganda from those who sponsor it in order to corner future markets.


86 posted on 10/29/2014 4:42:08 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Twilight Greenaway is managing editor of Civil Eats.

Looks like she could use a sammich.


87 posted on 10/29/2014 4:42:54 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Same idiot liberals said by 2000 we’d all be dead from starvation, that the planet couldn’t possibly support over 4 billion people.


88 posted on 10/29/2014 4:43:01 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A cook with a religious faith in Algore. How quaint.


89 posted on 10/29/2014 4:45:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Vince Ferrer

Excellent post!


90 posted on 10/29/2014 4:46:31 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Mallomars!

-PJ

91 posted on 10/29/2014 4:50:40 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Not to mention that production (bushels per acre) over the years has increased substantially. In the 60s a 100 bu/acre wasa bumper crop on the bestground. Now yields could be as much as 185 bu/acre. If we quit using corn to fuel cars, there should be enough to go around for food production for a very long time.


92 posted on 10/29/2014 4:51:46 PM PDT by Cannoneer ( "..raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.." GW)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a loon. Half of those foods will prosper under conditions of greater CO2 and warmer weather at northern latitudes. The tropical ones would only find new tropical conditions.

IF . . . there was such a thing as global warming due to human activities.


93 posted on 10/29/2014 4:51:50 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
How does ‘Miss’ Greenaway know that I haven’t ALREADY cornered the coffee and chocolate markets?

She DOES know. Her article was aimed at those of us with whom you refuse to share your stash. I took the hint and moved my family from Edgerton to Georgia.
94 posted on 10/29/2014 4:52:40 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: trisham

“I love brussels sprouts! As prepared properly, they are delicious.”

The best way to prepare Brussels sprouts is pitch them out...

Some lucky people have the TAS2R38 gene that reveals the taste of Brussels sprouts to be bitter no matter how they are prepared. There is no way to improve them.


95 posted on 10/29/2014 4:53:08 PM PDT by Pelham ("This is how they do it in Mexico"- California State Motto)
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To: Voltage

Actually higher levels of CO-2 will increase crop yields.


As they already have, to the tune of roughly 20%. ...and if there is more warming, a warmer, wetter world will boost crops further.


96 posted on 10/29/2014 4:53:38 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This writer is so full of BS that this one article could provide enough fertilizer to keep most of these crops growing for the next hundred years.


97 posted on 10/29/2014 4:54:13 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: Sacajaweau

True...but I don’t have an army to feed and the missus, she don’t like sprouts...

I’ve heard that substituting cabbage for the sprouts in that recipe works just as good though...


98 posted on 10/29/2014 4:54:57 PM PDT by SZonian (Throwing our allegiances to political parties in the long run gave away our liberty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; Nailbiter
90 posts and no one has connected eating and climate change...


99 posted on 10/29/2014 4:55:02 PM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: mountainlion

I seem to recall the Maple Syrup story being resoundingly rebuffed shortly after publishing.


100 posted on 10/29/2014 4:56:02 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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