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Nov 26 • 3 tweets • 3 min read
⚠️'A new study published in Nature concluded that the influence of a warming planet in pushing up ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific will be detectable in the weather patterns in eight years — almost 𝟳𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 earlier than previously thought'

ft.com/content/55512e…
What will this ☝️ mean for food supplies and inflation when we're already seeing this 👇??

#food #inflation #foodsecurity #Thanksgiving #Thanksgiving2022
'Ceaseless & intensifying economic & environmental pressures require a national food security plan “as a matter of urgency”, an alliance representing nine of Australia’s biggest food producers & distributors says.'

 “agricultural is being hammered”

#food
perthnow.com.au/news/major-foo…

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Nov 25
Climate crisis exacerbated extremes battering food production around the world-

1. Australia: drowned livestock, ruined crops, worsening global wheat shortage

"It's absolutely beyond catastrophic" (bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/7993960/…, odt.co.nz/news/australia…, ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/floods-au…)

1/x
2. Albania, Montenegro & Serbia:

'Days of Torrential Rain' cause 'Flooding, Evacuations, & 6 deaths'

Agricultural territory 'harshly impacted by the rainfall'
>7,500 acres flooded

2/x
 #food #ClimateCrisis
natureworldnews.com/articles/54291…, yahoo.com/now/severe-flo…
3.Everywhere:

'Climate extremes cause significant winter wheat yield loss & can cause much greater impacts than single extremes in isolation'

Compound hot-dry-windy events 'have significant implications for the U.S. winter wheat production & beyond'
3/x
 nature.com/articles/s4146…
Read 8 tweets
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Oct 18
'U.S. winter wheat farmers plant into dust as Plains drought persists'

"It's sort of a grim situation"

#ClimateCrisis #food #inflation #VanGogh #USA
reuters.com/markets/commod…
The climate crisis is a food crisis.

And It is just ramping up.

#USA #Australia #Chad #Somalia #News #ActNow #ClimateEmergency #inflation
'Smoke from forest & grassland fires is darkening summer skies with increasing regularity.Potato growers say yields are down by 10 to 15%'

'What makes smoke particularly worrisome is that it can affect large geographic areas, filling entire valleys'
#food
theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
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Oct 18
❤️‍🔥Here comes trouble❤️‍🔥

flooding in Australia that "could greatly harm grain and oilseed quality"

"protracted drought" impacting Argentina corn planting

French farmers harvesting "drought-affected" maize

#VanGogh #ActNow #inflation
agriculture.com/markets/newswi…
👆My intention through my posts is to convey the immense sense of urgency we all need to have

I am actually very scared

And I am increasingly worried that our leaders remain completely oblivious, isolated in their little bubbles of yes-people

#cdnpoli
bc.ctvnews.ca/this-is-an-eme…
Our federal Tourism Minister commenting on the "million dollar" view of the north shore through a thick cloud of wildfire smoke that has been blanketing southwestern BC in the midst of an epic drought & heatwave

You can barely even see the mountains

#ClimateCrisis #Vancouver
Read 4 tweets
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Oct 15
'Global food prices are once again facing upward pressure due to the record cost for shipping grain in the U.S., the source of about 20% of world exports...drought conditions have caused water levels in the Mississippi River to drop' increasing costs

asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Inflat…
2/x
And not just the Mississippi-

Drought has been a huge problem for shipping across large swaths of the northern hemisphere in 2022, impacting distribution of crops & other commodities.

#ClimateCrisis #drought #heatwave #trade
splash247.com/fiercely-hot-s…
3/x
"An unsettling drop in water levels in key European waterways has resulted in immensely strained logistics in shipping commodities throughout the continent, with barges only able to carry one-third or one-quarter of their usual cargo."

#Europe #trade
splash247.com/fiercely-hot-s…
Read 6 tweets
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Oct 9
October 8 climate change & food supplement

(Supplement to Oct 4 roundup, here for reference 👇)

1/x
As scientists warn of the possibility of the collapse of civilization due to climate change due in part to the loss of societal capacity to provide basic necessities such as food and water:

-1 million impacted by flooding in central Africa (Chad) with widespread crop damage

2/x
-the EU harvests its 'drought-scarred maize crop' - "impacts of the summer drought, despite the sparse return of rainfall, have brought the yield outlook for crops to a rather uniform poor status"
-*321.6 million* acres of crops in U.S. are experiencing drought

3/x
Read 9 tweets
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Oct 4
Oct 4 Climate change & food roundup

-new analysis finds climate change impacts on food security have likely been underestimated
-bad news for pollinators, which fertilise 3/4 of crops produced globally & are one of the elements not adequately accounted for in most models...
1/x
...of climate impacts on food: insects found to to be “particularly vulnerable to climate change” heat extremes
-climate change intensified typhoons & hurricanes having significant impacts on farmers in the Philippines, Canada, Puerto Rico, Florida and the Dominican Republic

2/x
-“The world is heading toward the tightest grain inventories in years despite the resumption of exports from Ukraine, as the shipments are too few and harvests from other major crop producers are smaller than initially expected.”
3/x
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