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[TECH360i] TECH360i - Questions on Climate Change and the Food Future: Justin Gillis, an environmental science reporter for The Times, is taking reader questions on climate change and the world’s future food security.

[PROGRESS IN G.P.] Food Supply Under Strain on a Warming Planet « PROGRESS IN G.P.: Examples are already available, from the deserts of Mexico to the rice paddies of India, to show that it may be possible to make agriculture more productive and more resilient in the face of climate change. Farmers have achieved huge gains in output in the past, and rising prices are a powerful incentive to do so again.

[Green] Damaging the Earth to Feed Its People - NYTimes.com: A farmer applied anhydrous ammonia to fertilize a field southwest of Stephen, Minn. Associated PressA farmer applied anhydrous ammonia to a field southwest of Stephen, Minn.

[Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner] Are You Ready For More? - Wall Street Examiner Forums and Bears Chat: Newsweek's Sharon Begley on why we're unprepared for the harrowing future, .By JUSTIN GILLIS CIUDAD OBREGÓN, Mexico — The dun wheat field spreading out at Ravi P.

[Green Change] Green Change : Climate change already cuts crop yields in some nations: But the authors of the study - David Lobell and Justin Costa-Roberts of Stanford University, and Wolfram Schlenker of Columbia University - pointed out that temperature increases were expected to accelerate in coming decades, making it likely that the challenges to food production will grow in an era when demand is expected to rise sharply.

[wataugawatch] WataugaWatch: Tornadoes and Global Climate Change: And, at least so far, only a handful of studies have suggested that tornadoes are likely to become more frequent or more intense on a warming planet. Frustratingly, it is likely to be a year or two before we get good published analyses of the causes for this season’s strange weather —

[Signs From Earth Notes] Hindered Harvest: Changing Climate Causes Crop Loss (via ...: Interestingly the crops/climate study showed that United States did not (yet) show yield losses during the time period studied, though in some countries climatic change was already offsetting yield increases that come from technology such as irrigation, improved seeds, and fertilizers. "Carbon fertilization" that results from rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide helped plant growth in all regions, offsetting some of the yield losses caused by rising temperatures from that same greenhouse gas.

[Green] Climate Change Hinders Crop Yields - NYTimes.com: By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Global warming has depressed crop yields in some countries in recent years from what they would have been otherwise, Justin Gillis reports, citing a new study in .

[Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » Lots of Ink: Ag ...: yields implies it reflects guesswork on what's in store. Gillis quotes the lead author directly, but provides no comment from authorities unaffiliated with the study.

[World Weather Post] The Facts (and Fiction) of Tornadoes - World Weather Post: By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF, JOHN SCHWARTZ, JUSTIN GILLIS, HENRY FOUNTAIN, KENNETH CHANG, DENISE GRADY, and ERICA GOODE. Published: May 25, 2011.

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