Must-Read: Tom Friedman On The Hidden Ways Climate Change Contributes To Global Insecurity
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has a new piece out today on a report that investigates the web of interconnections between climate ...
New Report Calls On Europe To Meet Its 2020 Transport Fuel Standards Without Reliance On Biofuels
By redirecting corn, grains, and other food crops to use as an energy source, biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has been driving up the price of food and contributing to ...
The World Wastes As Much As Half Its Food, New Study Finds
The world wastes from one-third to one-half of the four billion metric tons of food it produces each year, according to a report released last week by the Institution of Mechanical ...
How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala’s Food Supply
A new report in The New York Times highlights how biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has produced a rolling food catastrophe in Guatemala. The country once enjoyed a nearly ...
UN Warns Of Food Crisis In 2013 If Extreme Weather Persists
by Katie Valentine A severe drop in the world’s grain supply due to this summer’s extreme weather events has driven up food prices and could lead to a major hunger crisis in 2013, ...
An Illustrated Guide to the Science of Global Warming Impacts: How We Know Inaction Is the Gravest Threat Humanity Faces
Humanity’s Choice (via M.I.T.): Inaction (“No Policy”) eliminates most of the uncertainty about whether future warming will be catastrophic. Aggressive emissions ...
Oxfam Warns Climate Change And Extreme Weather Will Cause Food Prices To Soar
A report from Oxfam warns that global warming and extreme weather will combine to create devastating food price shocks in the coming decades. Oxfam had previously warned that corn ...
Jeremy Grantham on ‘Welcome to Dystopia’: We Are ‘Entering A Long-Term And Politically Dangerous Food Crisis’
Summary of the Summary: We are five years into a severe global food crisis that is very unlikely to go away. It will threaten poor countries with increased malnutrition and starvation ...
When National Climate Disasters Go Global: On Drought, Food, And Global Insecurity
by Francesco Femia and Caitlin Werrell, via The Center For Climate and Security
The national Drought Monitor recently declared [abnormally dry conditions or] a drought for almost 80% ...
My Nature Piece On Dust-Bowlification And the Grave Threat It Poses to Food Security
“Feeding some 9 billion people by mid-century in the face of a rapidly worsening climate may well be the greatest challenge the human race has ever faced.”
Last year, ...
James Hansen Is Correct About Catastrophic Projections For U.S. Drought If We Don’t Act Now
The response by NOAA’s Martin Hoerling to James Hansen’s recent op-ed does not reflect the scientific literature.
I’m traveling, so let me focus first on Hoerling’s ...
Corn Growers: Climate Change Is ‘A Grave Threat To Rural Livelihoods And Quality Of Life’
Corn farmers concerned about the impact of climate change are speaking out, calling the problem “a grave threat” to the nation’s agricultural sector.
Responding to ...
Drought, Flooding And ‘Multiple, Combined Outbreaks’ Of Pests Threaten To Reduce Asian Agricultural Output 50%
Two of Southeast Asia’s most valuable crops — rice and cassava — are under pressure from multiple, simultaneous threats fueled by climate change.
In the last week, the CGIAR ...
March 29 News: Report Targets Growing Threat To Humanity From Food Insecurity And Climate Change
“Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human wellbeing and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate,” John Beddington, ...
Cool Green Morning: Wednesday, March 28
Do you like luxury?
Apparently, there’s a Ferrari hybrid in the works. (Gas2)
This map will show you just how dirty your air is. (Treehugger)
The US Army gives up on LEED, ...
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