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@JimBair62221006
May 13 • 7 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
🔥USA-

'America’s wheat fields have become so plagued by drought that farmers are now poised to abandon crops at the highest rate in more than a century.'

'Years of dry conditions on the US Plains have taken their toll'

1/x #ClimateCrisis #food #USA
finance.yahoo.com/news/farmers-s…
🔥Europe-

'Europe’s Drought-Riven Future Is Here, Decades Earlier Than Expected'

2/x #ClimateCrisis #Europe #food
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
🔥USA-

California: 'Our crops are getting decimated. There's been at least 12 atmospheric rivers'

The state is the leading provider in the US for fruits & vegetables & 'These weather conditions are wreaking havoc for farmers'

3/x #ClimateCrisis #food
forbes.com/sites/phillemp…
🔥Southeast Asia-

'heat wave is also taking a toll on agriculture in these regions. Crops such as rice, wheat, & sugarcane are particularly vulnerable to high temperatures & prolonged dry spells, which can reduce yields & even destroy entire harvests'

sitata.com/en/2023/04/26/…
🔥China-

'Extreme rainfall is taking a toll on China’s rice crops, and it could get much worse'

“it is critical to account for extreme rainfall in food security assessments”

5/x #ClimateCrisis #China #food
todayonline.com/world/extreme-…
🔥Africa-

'the African Union’s agricultural commissioner, said the twin issues of climate change and food security are now a continent-wide challenges that threaten to undermine Africa’s broader development goals'

6/x #ClimateCrisis #food #Africa
ghanabusinessnews.com/2023/05/14/is-…
🔥 Middle East & N Africa-

Tunisia 'suffering from its fifth continuous year of drought'

Morocco drought 'ravaging' wheat crop

Turkey- 'lack of water is starting to feel like an existential crisis' for some farmers

7/x  #climate
english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-ea…
dailysabah.com/turkiye/vampir…

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Jim Baird Profile picture
May 17
How do you think this will this end?

⚠️Climate-driven food shocks happening around the world, *now*

⚠️Impacts are piling up much earlier then expected

⚠️ We're discovering new, worrying feedbacks & treading closer to several tipping points 

A thread👇

#ActNow #ClimateCrisis Image
'water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer — one of the world’s largest fresh groundwater sources — are already plummeting'

"Water in the Ogallala Aquifer has been severely depleted, particularly in the southern end of the aquifer"
#ClimateChange #foodsecurity
axios.com/2023/05/17/fut…
'Meanwhile: Wildfires and shifting climate patterns imperil water sources on forested lands, as reservoirs "face dwindling inflows and are filling with sediment, increasing flood risk and reducing their capacity to respond to drought"'

#food #water
axios.com/2023/05/17/fut…
Read 4 tweets
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Nov 25, 2022
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, 2022
'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-…
Read 6 tweets
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Oct 18, 2022
❤️‍🔥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, 2022
'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, 2022
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
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