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Climate change threatens to cause ‘synchronised harvest failures’ across the globe, with implications for Australia’s food security
New research shows scientists have underestimated the climate risk to agriculture and global food production. Blind spots in climate models meant “high-impact but deeply-uncertain hazards” were ignored. But now that the threat of “synchronised harvest failures” has been revealed, we cannot ignore the prospect of global famine. Climate change models for North America and Europe had previously suggested […]
Posted in Climate, Climate Change, Environment Institute, Evolution and Climate, extreme weather, Food and Wine, School of Social Sciences, Science communication
Tagged Assoc Prof Doug Bardsley, Faculty of Arts Business and Law, food security, global food production, The Conversation
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