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Apr 18 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Malaysia-

'The increasing recurrence of incalculable and terrible weather conditions has directly impacted the agricultural sector. It indicates a possible worrying future for the nation’s long-term food security.'

#ClimateCrisis #foodsecurity #Malaysia
aseaneconomist.com/climate-change…
Nebraska-

"The mental health side of this for producers is difficult. You have the chaos of it. Producers could see their cattle in the pasture, but because of the heat of the fires, they couldn’t do anything. It was moving so fast"

#ClimateCrisis #food
farmprogress.com/disaster/wildf…
Punjab-

'the extraordinary heatwave that occurred during the grain filling stage of wheat in March this year had a significant effect on crop production.'

#AgTwitter #food #farming
pragnews.com/national/wheat…
Kerala-

'The downpour that floods an entire landscape & searing heat that drains & in every form. Such weather variations in Kerala are impacting its food platter too, with the yield from crops falling up to 33% in the past few decades'

#ClimateCrisis
thehindu.com/news/national/…

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Apr 14
Current research on microplastics is the stuff of nightmares-

They’re dangerous, they’re spread through our food, they're in the air... they’re everywhere

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#health #ClimateCrisis #PlasticPollution #food
Much of the research is trapped behind paywalls, and only reported on in a limited, fragmented pattern

-like so much else when large corporations cause environmental damage and impose widespread health impacts on the public

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The growing risks of microplastics are a direct function of an ongoing push by the same sociopathic corporations that are driving the climate crisis

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#health #ClimateCrisis #PlasticPollution #food
cnbc.com/2022/01/29/how…
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Mar 4
And just like that,

#ClimateCrisis exacerbated extreme weather is now a major factor exacerbating shortfalls of a major global food commodity

Canada's 2021 drought 'zapped as much as 40% of Western Canada’s grain output'- right when it is needed the most
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
☝️This couldn't have come at a worse time, and is another example of how cruel a threat multiplier climate change can be.

Hopefully the international community will work to address this-

Many lives are at stake.

#ClimateCrisis #UkraineRussianWar #food
'We’ve heard Putin say that he intends to have Russia benefit from the climate crisis...[he] is trying to hoard agricultural lands for Russia’s food security, thereby also increasing the world’s future dependence on Russia in agricultural markets'
#Ukraine
carnegieeurope.eu/2022/03/04/rus…
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Jan 29
'The study suggests... widespread drying & increases in agricultural drought by up to 200% over most of the Americas... Europe & the Mediterranean region, southern Africa, Southeast Asia, & Australia under moderate-high emissions'

#ClimateCrisis #NEWS
phys.org/news/2022-01-s…
Already

'children walk among carcasses of animals dead from hunger & exhaustion, a stark image of the drought threatening millions...

Somalia, Kenya, & now Ethiopia have raised the alarm about the latest climate shock to a fragile region'

#ClimateCrisis
cp24.com/world/millions…
Portugal-

Drought threatens farming & results in near halt of electricity from 5 hydro dams

Unmitigated climate change to "drastically increase the frequency, duration & intensity of summer droughts in many European regions”

#ClimateCrisis #Portugal
euractiv.com/section/climat…
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Oct 5, 2021
Echoing others who have noted that we don't have a carbon budget:

Cumulative historical emissions have already resulted in millions of lives being impacted via increased frequency of droughts causing acute food insecurity.

#ClimateCrisis
theconversation.com/scientists-sou…
"Global emissions have resulted in the rapid warming of the west Pacific, resulting in more rain around Indonesia and concerning but predictable rainfall deficits in arid, food-insecure eastern Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia."

theconversation.com/scientists-sou…
Ongoing subsidies to oil and gas, & other policy decisions that unnecessarily increase emissions are policy decisions that condemn thousands, if not many more, to suffering and death.

Politicians who make these decisions must be held accountable.

theconversation.com/scientists-sou…
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Sep 10, 2021
'Hurricane Ida ... took its toll on American agriculture, in ways both obvious and subtle'

Severe winds & flooding damaging crops, seawater infiltration, damage to ports...

#ClimateCrisis #agriculture #HurricaneIda
modernfarmer.com/2021/09/hurric…
'Everything is Gone’ New Jersey’s Largest Dairy Devastated by Hurricane Ida

-National Weather Service confirmed 5 tornadoes touched down in New Jersey & eastern Pennsylvania during the fierce thunderstorms triggered by the leftovers of Hurricane Ida

agweb.com/weather/everyt…
☝️in case you were wondering about the connection between hurricanes & tornadoes (I was) - see:

nytimes.com/2020/08/04/cli…
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Sep 3, 2021
Food security and climate change: a critical warning for humanity-

Thread synthesizing peer-reviewed research, current news, market intelligence analysis & more.

#CodeRed #ActNow #ClimateCrisis #foodblogger #foodsecurity #news
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In sum:

1) Significant climate change impacts on food systems are already happening, & the risk of multi-breadbasket failures is increasing,

2) We will need to adapt, but

3) There are limits to adaptation - we urgently, urgently need to cut GHG emissions & draw down CO2.
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This thread consists of 3 parts:

Part 1 - The Present
Part 2 - Warnings
Part 3 - Choosing our Future

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