Climate Change Crop Decline

Just how much of a hit would corn, soybean, and cotton crops take in a rapid global warming scenario? New research from North Carolina State University that has been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that it could be massive. Agriculture and resource economist Michael Roberts and economist Dr. Wolfram Schenkler have found that each of these crops has a critical temperature threshold: 29°C for corn, 30°C for soybeans, and 32°C for cotton. This means that if a slower global warming should occur, these economist predict that crops could decline 30 to 46 percent, and if rapid global warming occurs, crops could decline 63 to 82 percent. Those are some pretty stark numbers, so keep encouraging your friends to go veg in order to stave off global warming!