[Marxism] Rice yields crashing due to climate change

["Johannes Schneider" <Johannes.Schneider@xxxxxxx>]

Rice yields plunging due to balmy nights
        
10:23 29 June 04        
        
NewScientist.com news service   
        
Rice yields are crashing as a result of global warming at twice the rate
predicted by climate modellers, according to the first âreal worldâ
experiment on the impact of rising temperatures.

The detailed study of crop yields and temperatures took place on
long-standing research plots at the International Rice Research Institute
at Los Banos in the Philippines. The results suggest that global rice
yields could potentially fall by a catastrophic 50 per cent during this
century.

The study found that on the Los Banos plots, âthe 0.7ÂC increase in the
mean daily temperature was associated with a rice yield decrease of 10 per
cent â substantially greater than previous estimatesâ, says Kenneth
Cassman from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and one of the
research team.

Full:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996082

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