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2100 - Food Crisis of the Future

global warmingIf you were planning to break the records and live well into your 100's, you might want to rethink that plan. USA Today reports that there's a new doomsday study making waves from Science.

Basically, the study states that the Earth will keep warming to the point where our hottest seasons on record will become the norm, and thus drastically reduce crop yields -- meaning a "disastrous food shortage for billions of people by the end of this century."

The piece does include naysayers, but even they don't necessarily offer a future-full-o-food scenario. Pat Michaels of the Cato Institute says that the agriculture industry will adapt -- citing the US increase in crops as temperatures rose. And Linda Mearns, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research says it will be "less grim."

Less grim. How's that for a comforting thought?

Filed Under: Science, Farming
Tags: food crisis, FoodCrisis, global warming, GlobalWarming

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Jena

1-12-2009 @4:05PM Jena said... we're all just going to end up drinking weird food supplement shakes like they did in Wall-E (or any other number of science fiction dystopian stories), anyway. ;)
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Baron

1-13-2009 @9:19AM Baron said... I'm sure GMO crops won't be shunned when normal crops die under the heat and they are able to modify them to thrive.
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