UN Study Says Climate Change Already Hitting Food Supply
by Carmen Lim
@ 04 Apr 2014
The notable effects of climate change in the 30-chapter report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change include the extinction of a small number of species, the acidification of the oceans and melting glaciers. The global food supply is also implicated; “Climate change has negatively affected wheat and maize yields for many regions and in the global aggregate,” according to a 48-page summary of the report, and much of the report on impacts lists gloomy findings about the potential disruption to all forms of life in a warming world, from advancing spring times that could affect animals’ food supplies, to water scarcity, power interruptions and heatwaves that could make human life far more miserable. Learn more about this pressing issue at
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