Monday, November 4, 2013

Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies

Click here to access article by Justin Gillis from the NY Times (requires registration) via Information Clearing House. This posting includes an excellent 9:18m video from the livehistory.net website (appears to be extinct).
Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found.
....  The warnings come in a leaked draft of a report under development by a United Nations panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.