| extreme weather is already affecting food production in US and it's only gonna get worse https://www.agupdate.com/livestockroundup/markets/corn-proje... some other examples of crop failures currently happening https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/06/midwe... https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/19/extreme-heat-wave-hits-us-fa... https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/may/15/austr... https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/20/crop-fai... https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-02/low-rice-crop-lead... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people... https://phys.org/news/2019-12-climate-whammy-corn-belt.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/12/britain-facing-p... https://weather.com/science/environment/news/2019-08-01-drou... https://phys.org/news/2020-01-atlantic-circulation-collapse-... https://phys.org/news/2019-12-climate-threat-global-breadbas... https://phys.org/news/2019-12-large-atmospheric-jet-stream-g... and here are some scientific studies projecting future crop failures: Schlenker and Roberts, 2009. Nonlinear temperature effects indicate severe damages to US crop yields under climate change. PNAS, 106(37), pp.15594-15598
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/37/15594.full Mora et al, 2015. Suitable days for plant growth disappear under projected climate change: Potential human and biotic vulnerability. PLoS bio, 13(6), p.e1002167
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou... Schauberger et al, 2017. Consistent negative response of US crops to high temperatures in observations and crop models. Nature Comms, 8, p.13931.
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13931 Sakschewski et al, 2014. Feeding 10 billion people under climate change: How large is the production gap of current agricultural systems?. Ecological modelling, 288, pp.103-111
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263472623_Feeding_1... Liang et al, 2017. Determining climate effects on US total agricultural productivity. PNAS, 114(12), pp.E2285-E2292
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