[PEN-L:32576] Fw: gw: Crops suffer as climate changes

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: gw: Crops suffer as climate changes


 Crops suffer as climate changes

 Total annual precipitation and extreme precipitation events, like
 blizzards and tropical storms, are steadily on the increase. As the
 climate changes, precipitation will increase even more. Over the next 30
 years crop damage could double in the nation's Corn Belt, adding an
 additional $3 billion a year to the cost of agriculture.

 The team who made the finding includes researchers from NASA's
 Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the GISS office at Columbia
 University, the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National
 Laboratory, and the nonprofit organization Environmental Defense. The
 researchers modified a widely used crop model called CERES-Maize to
 simulate crop yields under projected future climate conditions of higher
 precipitation. They have recently published their findings in the
 journal Global Environmental Change.
 http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/EETD-climate-change.html