Sentences with phrase «creating food shortages»

The real threat to humanity comes not from any (trivial) greenhouse warming but from cooling periods creating food shortages and famines.»

After extensive study he has concluded that the activities of mankind are not creating a climate crisis and the active global warming / climate change campaign underway today is costing the average American family thousands of dollars a year and creating food shortages and starvation in the third world.

But the reaction was dismay among the small international community of social scientists trying to figure out how to make sure climate forecasts are useful to, say, an agriculture department in Ethiopia, or trying to figure out how supposed climate fixes like biofuels might create food shortages.

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This shortage created food price inflation.

Conflict leading to food shortages creates serious humanitarian crisis in Nigeria, Lake Chad area.

A typical message I heard while listening to radio broadcasts in northern Nicaragua accused the Sandinistas of «burning churches, kidnapping Nicaraguan children and sending them to Cuba, stealing land from campesinos, creating internal food shortages by sending Nicaragua's food to the Soviet Union, and killing old people in order to make soap.»

The Christian charity says conflicts and flooding are creating severe food shortages in the country, and the UN has warned that 50,000 children in South Sudan could die by 2015.

Chia growers hope to avoid regional shortages and issues that have plagued the quinoa industry and have created the Chia Council, «a regional organization to promote good trade practices, centralize all scientific information, and to collect market data to enable a better organization and communication,» reports Food Navigator.

The post-war food shortage inspired him to create a product to fill the gap in cheap food options.

It's the one vision that could create jobs, and build a national housing, energy, food and transport infrastructure fit to flourish in a world of energy shortages and climate change.

This, coupled with a period of natural global warming that created a shortage of traditional foods, hungry humans asked, «Can we eat that, too?»

This day was created to call attention to the shortage of food in many parts of the world.

Perhaps, the present levels — 26,000 whales, up 6,000 from the estimate of their pre-slaughter levels, had created a shortage of food in their feeding areas.

In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, and Yangtze River basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on rivers, this loss of dry - season flow will shrink harvests and could create unmanageable food shortages.

It does appear, however, that regions of particular concern include parts of Africa and China, where future food shortages may create regional instabilities.

Guardian: National Intelligence Council also sees water and food shortages and suggests world is at a «critical juncture in human history» A US intelligence portrait of the world in 2030 predicts that China will be the largest economic power, climate change will create instability by contributing to water and food shortages, and there will be [continue reading...]

Even a 2 °C temperature increase is likely to cause natural disasters, sea - level rise and food shortages, possibly creating the circumstances for war.

In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, and Yangtze River basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on rivers, the loss of glacial - fed, dry - season flow will shrink harvests and could create unmanageable food shortages.

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Beyond that, «more frequent and extreme weather events will compound things further, creating shortages, destabilizing markets, and precipitating food price spikes which will be felt on top of the projected structural price rises.»