Climate Warming Means Food Shortages, Study Warns

摘要

The warming climate is likely to stress crops and livestock, causing serious food shortages for half the world's people, US researchers predict. The worst effects will be in the regions where the poorest people live now, the tropics and subtropics. However, even in temperate regions, "the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations," reported David Battisti, a University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, USA) atmospheric sciences professor, and Rosamond Naylor, director of Food Security and the Environment at California's Stanford University (Stanford, California, USA).