The crops affected would include wheat, corn and rice, Zheng Guoguang, head of the China Meteorological Administration, said in an article published on the agency’s Web site yesterday. Research shows that for every degree warmer the atmosphere becomes the key growing period for rice to develop properly will be shortened by an average of 7-8 days and by 17 days for the winter wheat crop, Zheng said. “Yield and quality will drop accordingly,” he said.
How is this bad? Let me count the ways. Starvation: with the 2nd largest population continually unable to feed itself there will be lots of famine related deaths. Or this could lead to the 2nd horseman, War: where an angry, nuclear China has nothing better to do than attack other nations which is a standard human reaction to desperation. And don't forget Economically. Yes, the biz folks who fear caps on carbon emissions because it'll cut into profit and growth will find less pockets available to buy their products (or make their products in China/Walmart's case) and then the agribusiness would be hurting too. Bloomberg interviewed people in a town hall and this was the average reaction.
So there's something in climate change for everyone. What's your part?
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