Climate Change and Agriculture: Predicting Food Yield Changes by Degree of Temperature Increase

Climate Change and Agriculture: Predicting Food Yield Changes by Degree of Temperature Increase

by big picture agriculture blog, March 15, 2011

From a new report issued by the National Research Council predicting effects of climate change according to the number of degrees of temperature rise, I have excerpted the parts of the report which relate to agriculture.

Note that normally I try to avoid making predictions or featuring predictive scenarios on this blog as many issues are too complex to do it with certainty, and I include climate change in that category. It seems that more can be gained by carefully monitoring what IS happening to detect trends, and so far, we are continuing to turn out near record-level crops here in the U.S. and elsewhere. Nevertheless, this subject is so important to agriculture, that I feel it is my duty to present what the experts are predicting.

[Dear Readers,  I think I can excerpt and post the above text due to fair use rules, however the rest of the post must now be deleted because the author was offended that I stole her work and posted it her without her permission and would not relent even when I explained that this blog's sole purpose is to disseminate important climate change related information.  She further requested that I never post any articles written by her in the future.  Nevertheless, the information in her articles is of such importance that I suggest you go to the link below and read her work in its entirety.  Tenney]


Source: Warmıng world - impacts by degree. Based on the National Research Council report, Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia (2011) [PDF]

http://bigpictureagriculture.blogspot.com/2011/03/climate-change-and-agriculture.html