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Jim Baird
@JimBair62221006
Jim Baird is a pseudonym for privacy. My focuses: ▫️international impacts of the #ClimateCrisis▫️co-benefits of #ClimateAction▫️#FoodSecurity ▫️ #Renewables ▫
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May 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Argentina's agricultural heartland sees heavy flooding that could cause losses for corn, soy harvest

Argentina is world's top exporter of soybean meal and oil and the no. 3 exporter of corn

"The amount of water that fell was absolutely ludicrous"
reuters.com/business/envir… "Japan has been struggling with rice shortages since hot weather resulted in a poor harvest in 2023...

The crisis has seen the government release vast quantities of rice from its emergency stockpiles for the first time."

2/x
 news.sky.com/story/japanese…
Nov 15, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Farmers raise concerns after staple crop becomes increasingly harder to grow: 'I don't remember this happening before'

Excessive heat & prolonged drought have devastated chestnut harvests in Greece

Some farmers expecting 90% reduction in yield
thecooldown.com/green-business… ‘Nothing grows anymore’: In Malawi, eating becomes a daily struggle due to climate change

"The combined effects of cyclones and droughts, worsened by climate change, have led to widespread food insecurity"

2/x
 france24.com/en/africa/2024…
Oct 2, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
"Droughts, downpours & fires from Asia to the Americas are stoking worries about crop harvests, pushing up prices for food staples"

"We have recently seen a confluence of worse weather conditions that have pushed prices higher”
japantimes.co.jp/environment/20… Hurricane Helene Causes Billions in Ag Damage

Across the southern US, “crop losses alone could trigger $7 billion in insurance payouts, a US Department of Agriculture official estimated Tuesday”

“a horrible blow to farmers, ranchers, & rural communities”
farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2024/10/hurric…
Jul 12, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Oh look-

"Extreme Weather Is Shaking Up Global Food Markets Again"

"Pricey Coffee", "Chocolate Inflation" & more

1/x
 bloomberg.com/news/newslette… CEO of major canned fruit & veg company, HAK warns:

'Climate change and extreme weather conditions will make harvests less predictable and lead to shortages of certain foods'

2/x
 brusselstimes.com/world-all-news…
Aug 11, 2023 • 35 tweets • 14 min read
With extreme weather raging, agricultural impacts continue to mount, threatening food security, inflation and produce shortages in many regions-

1/x - Fruit disappearing from Italian orchards due to extreme weather euronews.com/green/2023/08/… 2/x
Oregon cherry growers seek emergency aid after climate change ruined this year's harvest: 'It all fell apart'

“Never have I had a time where I had to walk away from so many cherries and it’s really just devastating”
kgw.com/article/life/f…
Jul 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
'Extreme weather is exacerbating farmer mental health crisis'

#farming #mentalhealth #food #health #ClimateBreakdown
https://t.co/WkBK3O1Lpgnhpr.org/nh-news/2023-0…
Image Farmers in the Sundarbans written off as “hapless” future climate refugees-

“Climate change-induced cyclones, floods, salinity intrusion, land degradation & riverbank erosion along the coastal blocks of Sundarbans have affected people’s livelihood”
https://t.co/uVpUUGlVCFscmp.com/week-asia/econ…
Image
Jul 18, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Serbia 'has experienced "absolute extremes in terms of both drought and the amount of water that we've had"'

Farmers 'feeling the effects of climate change on this year's crops as extreme heat follows flooding'

"I'm absolutely starting to lose my will"
euronews.com/2023/07/17/cli… 'With extreme heat becoming a fixture of Europe's summers, the continent's food supply is becoming chronically hampered by the worsening drought. Food companies are left struggling in the face of shrinking crops and rising prices'

#CLIMATECRISIS #food
brusselstimes.com/598572/belgium…
Jun 25, 2023 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
'the hot and dry weather that fuelled historic wildfires in Alberta has contributed to a scourge of grasshoppers now threatening to strip already stunted crops'

#ClimateChange #Alberta #food #cdnpoli #FoodSecurity #inflation
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed… "The ground was literally moving with them. It was bare, you could see the soil. They just eat it to nothing."

"With the fire & the flood, we're talking about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, right?" 

#food #futures #future #now #ClimateChange #agri
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
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…
May 13, 2023 • 7 tweets • 6 min read
🔥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/…
Nov 25, 2022 • 8 tweets • 6 min read
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…
Oct 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
'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
Oct 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
❤️‍🔥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…
Oct 15, 2022 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
'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…
Oct 9, 2022 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
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
Oct 4, 2022 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
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
Oct 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
"B.C. saw less rain in 3 months than Hurricane Ian dumped in 1 minute."

-much of BC has seen hot & dry weather served with a side of smoke, including in our beautiful temperate rainforest

Our new alien world.

#ClimateCrisis #Ian #HurricaneIan
theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/articl… @s_guilbeault are you paying attention to the west coast?

Right now children are *again* going to school breathing smoke. The 107 & 153 AQI here are samples from the #Vancouver region this morning

A few weeks ago, we hit the purple zone (the image says it all!)

#ClimateCrisis ImageImageImage
Sep 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
This study needs to be brought in front of every politician making decisions on climate change mitigation

It should be headlined in every major media outlet

The implications are stunning

1/4
 #ClimateCrisis #foodsecurity #farming #agriculture #NEWS
bmj.com/content/378/bm… What factors are 𝘯𝘰𝘵 included in most crop models?

⚠️Among many other things
-declines in pollinating insects
-nutrient reductions in staple crops
-changes in air quality
-land degradation and salinisation
-even *increasing extreme weather*

2/4
 bmj.com/content/378/bm…
Sep 27, 2022 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
We are here 👇

"By the end of the 2022/23
crop year, the world's buffer
stocks of corn will be
enough for just 80 days'
worth of consumption"

Crops ruined by widespread drought in the US & Europe, flooding in Pakistan, incessant rains in India & more
reuters.com/markets/commod… "Tight grain supplies reflect the impact of climate change on crop production as well as growing global demand for livestock that feed on corn, eating away at stockpiles"

& guess what?

The #ClimateCrisis is ramping up as our leaders pour fuel on the fire
reuters.com/markets/commod…
Sep 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
2022 not 2050!

"People were fleeing to higher, cooler ground. Subway stations were blacked out...buildings were darkened... important arteries for shipping & transportation became unnavigable...Chickens died or struggled to lay eggs"

1/4 #China
nytimes.com/2022/09/09/opi… And now:

2/4
 #China #ClimateCrisis #food #water #energy
Sep 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 8 min read
Heat stress already poses an "extreme risk" to agriculture in 20 countries, including agricultural giant India

But by 2045, 64 nations representing 71% of current global food production will be impacted

Including China, India, Brazil & the U.S.

#food
france24.com/en/live-news/2… "I think what it reinforces is that, even though a lot of us are sort of sitting in sort of Western countries, where we might think we're a bit more insulated from some of these threats, actually we are not necessarily" 

#ClimateCrisis #food #farming
france24.com/en/live-news/2…