The United States is the world’s 4th-largest wheat exporter & 'problems are hitting output at a time when the world can ill afford to lose any more supplies'
Worsening harvest prospects in China, parts of Europe & Indian export ban.
Kansas- 'winter wheat harvest potential there has fallen by more than 25% due to severe drought. Kansas farmers may abandon thousands of acres of wheat in fields this year'
In North Dakota, an 'historic' blizzard & flooding
last year "North Dakota was suffering from a record drought & so its corn & soybean yields were going to drop and they did— by like, 24%. This week we’re writing about how it’s too wet there & farmers can’t plant. That’s climate change..."
'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.'
"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"
'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…
'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'
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.
"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."
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.
'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