http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/apr/13/climate-change-millions-starvation-scientists
Millions of people could become destitute in Africa and Asia as staple foods more than double in price by 2050 as a result of extreme temperatures, floods and droughts that will transform the way the world farms.
As food experts gather at two major conferences to discuss how to feed the nine billion people expected to be alive in 2050, leading scientists have told the Observer that food insecurity risks turning parts of Africa into permanent disaster areas.Rising temperatures will also have a drastic effect on access to basic foodstuffs, with potentially dire consequences for the poor.Frank Rijsberman, head of the world's 15 international CGIAR crop research centres, which study food insecurity, said: "Food production will have to rise 60% by 2050 just to keep pace with expected global population increase and changing demand.Climate change comes on top of that. The annual production gains we have come to expect … will be taken away by climate change. We are not so worried about the total amount of food produced so much as the vulnerability of the one billion people who are without food already and who will be hit hardest by climate change. They have no capacity to adapt."
the world as we know it rotates on it's axis which to a lay person would indicate that what you get on your side of the world has just as much potential on my side, also trade winds blow around the world airborne radiation viruses, and global warming winds. what goes around comes around.
i don't think i would leave the republican science deniers in charge of my life given they proclaim the inaccuracy and in some cases the existence of science.
can't counter or fix something you don't believe in!
America's agricultural economy is set to undergo dramatic changes over the next three decades, as warmer temperatures devastate crops, according to a US government report. The draft US National Climate Assessment report predicts that a gradually warming climate and unpredictable severe weather, such as the drought that last year spread across two-thirds of the continental United States, will have serious consequences for farmers.The research by 60 scientists predicts that all crops will be affected by the temperature shift as well as livestock and fruit harvests. The changing climate, it says, is likely to lead to more pests and less effective herbicides. The $50bn Californian wine industry could shrink as much as 70% by 2050.
could it be that right wing politicians deny and dissmiss this projection because they won't be around in 50 years to suffer the consequences, and they make thes e claims about not leaving debt on their grand kids, we know thats a lie they are out of office and we are still paying for their "spending", so if that is a lie then they care even less about their living conditions, how reprehensible they are. epitome of mam's inhumanity to man or grandkids.
