It is argued by the whalers that growing whale populations will lead to an imbalance in the marine ecosystem, and that by distorting the marine food chain, recovering populations of whales will
threaten global food security.
While the manufacturer of Quorn ™ cultivates strains of Fusarium venenatum via fermentation into a mycoprotein dough for human consumption, farmers try to fight off Fusarium graminearum as this pervasive fungal pathogen invades multiple crops and
threatens global food security.
The 196 country Parties attending the 13th session of their Conference are expected to agree on a 12 - year Strategy to contain runaway land degradation that is
threatening global food and water security.
Prof Peirs Forster (Univ of Leeds, UK; IPCC lead author) led a 2012 study of the probability of extreme drought across Asia, in which this was found to be liable to occur within 10 years on a scale potentially
threatening global food security.
And also recent studies have found that biofuels may be
threatening global food security.
Not exact matches
Such underinvestment not only slows scientific advancement, it also
threatens the nation's ability to address pressing
global problems such as
food, water and energy shortages, climate change and disease.
«This Agreement, in enhancing the implementation of the [2015 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change], including its objective, aims to strengthen the
global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by: (a) Holding the increase in the
global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, recognizing that this would significantly reduce the risks and impacts of climate change; (b) Increasing the ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change and foster climate resilience and low greenhouse gas emissions development, in a manner that does not
threaten food production; and (c) Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate - resilient development.
In the journal Nature Climate Change, lead author Dr. Tom Bridge from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies based at James Cook University and colleagues point out that
global conservation policies have so far failed to prevent the widespread destruction of coral reefs and their fish life, which now
threatens the
food security of millions of people.
Global climate change risks are high to very high with global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confid
Global climate change risks are high to very high with
global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confid
global mean temperature increase of 4 °C or more above preindustrial levels in all reasons for concern (Assessment Box SPM.1), and include severe and widespread impacts on unique and
threatened systems, substantial species extinction, large risks to
global and regional food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confid
global and regional
food security, and the combination of high temperature and humidity compromising normal human activities, including growing
food or working outdoors in some areas for parts of the year (high confidence).
U.S. biofuels policies are a leading cause of increased
global food prices and market volatility, which
threaten food security for communities both domestically and abroad.
Already, this ecological debt is decimating wildlife populations worldwide, disproportionately hurting the world's poor and most vulnerable,
threatening imperative resources like
food and water, heating up the atmosphere, and risking
global well - being.
Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life
threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline,
food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth,
global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)
The World Bank also warned when it released its report that «we're on track for a 4 °C warmer world [by century's end] marked by extreme heat waves, declining
global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life -
threatening sea level rise.»
Global food production must rise to meet global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food sec
Global food production must rise to meet
global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance — threaten food sec
global food needs, but predicted increases in extreme weather events — combined with stresses such as poverty, conflict and weak governance —
threaten food security.
Such claims include the meme that rising
global CO2 has caused accelerating, rapid US warming; that droughts are destroying all of our
food crops; that more frequent and stronger weather disasters from warmer temperatures are wreaking untold harm; that
global warming will shorten /
threaten US life spans; that ever expanding wildfires are consuming our forests; and etc., etc., etc..
But with
global food demand expected to grow another 50 % by 2050, the expanding footprint of agriculture
threatens to decimate much of what remains of the earth's forests and grasslands, even if output is able to keep up with demand.
While plants in temperate zones may benefit from higher temperatures,
global warming's impact in the tropics
threatens catastrophe for
food security.
From shifting weather patterns that
threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are
global in scope and unprecedented in scale.
Climate change
threatens our ability to ensure
global food security, eradicate poverty and achieve sustainable development.
When we put these developments against the harsh warnings of an organization as conservative as the World Bank — that «we're on track for a 4 °C warmer world marked by extreme heat - waves, declining
global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life -
threatening sea level rise» — the only reasonable conclusion is that the world has gone mad.
The agreement also says it «aims to strengthen the
global response to climate change... in a manner that does not
threaten food production.»
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Global food production and
food security are
threatened by the greater variability of the climate and increasing occurrence of extreme weather events.
Even keeping
global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius — the target for international climate treaty talks — will force many species to the brink of extinction,
threatening food supplies, human health, economies and communities.
Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program,
threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher
food prices caused in large part by
food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for
global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.
This in a week when Kentucky farmers were reporting that corn kernels were «aborting» in record heat,
threatening a spike in
global food prices.
by Trudi Zundel With
food security
threatened throughout the developing world, the
global community has been paying a lot more attention to the effect of climate change on agriculture.
Many
foods are being
threatened by climate change: wheat, coffee, chocolate and avocadoes are just a few facing the challenges of
global warming.