According to an article in Science News analysts are blaming warmer temperatures for a decrease in global production of corn and wheat. Farmers around the world have produced 3.8% less corn and 5.5 % less wheat between 1980-2008. This loss in production has created an increase in the price.
The price of corn has risen 6.4% and the price of wheat has risen 18.9% since 1980. Technological advances have increased production of corn and wheat, but according to David Lobel a land-use scientist at Stanford University farmers could have produced a lot more food if the weather was cooler. " For every decade of climate change, it sets you back a year."
These factors coupled with pollution which is linked to global warming will have a detrimental effect to our food sources in the future. Hopefully we will be able to find better sources of energy that are less harmful to our environment.
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