{"id":362245,"date":"2021-11-03T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/climate-change-impact-on-worlds-crops-expected-within-next-decade\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:52:10","slug":"climate-change-impact-on-worlds-crops-expected-within-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/climate-change-impact-on-worlds-crops-expected-within-next-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"#Climate change impact on world\u2019s crops expected within next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Climate change impact on world\u2019s crops expected within next decade<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1189106406.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Climate change\u00a0may impact the production of corn (maize) and wheat as early as 2030, according to\u00a0NASA\u00a0researchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A new study from the agency published in the journal Nature Food said that under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, maize crop yields are projected to decline by 24% and wheat could potentially see a growth of about 17 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s43016-021-00400-y\">NASA used<\/a>\u00a0advanced climate and agriculture modeling to find the change in yields due to projected increases in\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/planet-earth\/climate\">temperatures<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/weather\">rainfall pattern shifts<\/a>\u00a0and elevated surface carbon dioxide concentrations from human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The team of\u00a0scientists\u00a0used the climate model simulations from the international Climate Model Intercomparison Project-Phase 6 (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wcrp-climate.org\/wgcm-cmip\/wgcm-cmip6\">CMIP6<\/a>). They also used the simulations as inputs for Columbia Unversity\u2019s Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/agmip.org\/\">AgMIP<\/a>) 12 state-of-the-art global crop models.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the five CMIP6 climate models used for this study runs its own response of Earth\u2019s atmosphere to greenhouse gas emission scenarios through the year 2100 and the MgMIP crop models simulate on a large scale how crops grow and respond to\u00a0environmental\u00a0conditions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>In all, NASA created about 240 global climate-crop model simulations for each crop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The researchers examined changes to long-term average crop yields and introduced a new estimate for when climate change impacts will emerge, finding that soybeans and rice projections showed a decline in some regions, though global models differed.<\/p>\n<p>Impacts on corn and wheat, however, were much clearer, as most of the models indicated similar outcomes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNorth and Central America, West Africa, Central Asia, Brazil and China will potentially see their maize yields decline in the coming years and beyond as average temperatures rise across these breadbasket regions, putting more stress on the plants,\u201d NASA wrote Monday in an\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/esnt\/2021\/global-climate-change-impact-on-crops-expected-within-10-years-nasa-study-finds\">accompanying news release<\/a>. \u201cWheat, which grows best in temperate climates, may see a broader area where it can be grown as temperatures rise, including the Northern United States and Canada, North China Plains, Central Asia, Southern Australia and East Africa, but these gains may level off mid-century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to temperature shifts, higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere will have a positive effect on photosynthesis and water retention and crop yields \u2013 though often at a cost to nutrition. This will h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en more so for wheat than maize.<\/p>\n<p>The rising temperatures \u2013 as well as\u00a0droughts\u00a0and\u00a0heat waves\u00a0\u2013 affect the length of growing seasons and accelerate crop maturity.<\/p>\n<p>Crippling\u00a0<u>drought<\/u>\u00a0and record-breaking temperatures parched the\u00a0<u>West<\/u>\u00a0this summer and scientists say climate change will continue to make conditions more extreme and destructive in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>In a\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/asia-pacific-latin-america-middle-east-africa-europe-1d89d5183583718ad4ad311fa2ee7d83\"><u>United Nations report released in August<\/u><\/a>, climate experts warned that the\u00a0<u>Earth<\/u>\u00a0is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, calling it a \u201ccode red for humanity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the U.N.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/resources\/emissions-gap-report-2021\"><u>calculated this week<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that, between now and 2030, the world will\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/climate-science-business-united-nations-scotland-e94d8e32fad7e92f5ac4341c4c61bb05\"><u>emit up to 31 billion U.S. tons<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of greenhouse gases beyond the amount that would keep the planet at or below the most stringent limit set in the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/process-and-meetings\/the-paris-agreement\/the-paris-agreement\"><u>2015 Paris climate accord<\/u><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In addition to contributing to respiratory disease from air pollution,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climate-indicators\/greenhouse-gases\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>\u00a0trap heat, warming the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Human activities,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/causes\/\">primarily the burning of fossil fuels<\/a>, have fundamentally increased the concentration of greenhouse gases in Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not expect to see such a fundamental shift, as compared to crop yield projections from the previous generation of climate and crop models conducted in 2014,\u201d lead author Jonas J\u00e4germeyr, a crop modeler and climate scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and The Earth Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement. The projected maize response was surprisingly large and negative, he said. \u201cA 20% decrease from current production levels could have severe implications worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven under optimistic climate change scenarios, where societies enact ambitious efforts to limit global temperature rise, global agriculture is facing a new climate reality,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd with the interconnectedness of the global food system, impacts in even one region\u2019s breadbasket will be felt worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team plans to look at economic incentives like changing farming practices and adaptations in future work.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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