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posted by martyb on Sunday September 09 2018, @05:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the climate-needs-some-serious-debugging dept.

Pests to eat more crops in warmer world

Insects will be at the heart of worldwide crop losses as the climate warms up, predicts a US study. Scientists estimate the pests will be eating 10-25% more wheat, rice and maize across the globe for each one degree rise in climate temperature.

Warming drives insect energy use and prompts them to eat more. Their populations can also increase. This is bound to put pressure on the world's leading cereal crops, says study co-author Curtis Deutsch.

"Insect pests currently consume the equivalent of one out of every 12 loaves of bread (before they ever get made). By the end of this century, if climate change continues unabated, insects will be eating more than two loaves of every 12 that could have been made," the University of Washington, US, researcher told BBC News.

Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate (DOI: 10.1126/science.aat3466) (DX)


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by XivLacuna on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:12PM (12 children)

    by XivLacuna (6346) on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:12PM (#732514)

    Such a grim way to test. Another way is to evacuate all humans off of Earth and put them into rotating space colonies.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by BsAtHome on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:38PM (4 children)

    by BsAtHome (889) on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:38PM (#732517)

    Yes, put 'm all in space. Then nuke the place, wait for many years and send 100 juveniles back to see if they can survive on the surface. Or was that some fiction I saw on the telly?

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:42PM (2 children)

      by Gaaark (41) on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:42PM (#732518) Journal

      Wall-E?

      :)

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      • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:17PM (1 child)

        by BsAtHome (889) on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:17PM (#732528)

        Yes, the last one always gets stuck with the cleaning bill. Can we convert the Wall-E compacter to a process gasses? Then that should be fine and we're all off to roam the universe in a chair getting fat.

        • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @04:18AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @04:18AM (#732659)

          As opposed to now, when we're all roaming the internet in a chair getting fat.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:37PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:37PM (#732539)

      By the end of Season 4 it gets even worse...

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:44PM (5 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:44PM (#732520) Journal

    Put them on the moon in a base and then with our nuclear waste there exploding, it sends the moon out of Earth orbit, through some 'space warps' and off exploring.

    Should happen sometime around 1999 if the documentary i watched is true.

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    • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:19PM

      by BsAtHome (889) on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:19PM (#732530)

      Memories... Boy, that documentary was on acid!

    • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:22PM (3 children)

      by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:22PM (#732531)

      Wrong documentary, the best solution is evacuate to a new planet via the wormhole gates the Egyptians left behind. Much cleaner. Plus the documentary said we already have one in storage.

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      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday September 09 2018, @08:36PM (2 children)

        by Gaaark (41) on Sunday September 09 2018, @08:36PM (#732571) Journal

        I'll take Samantha Carter with me...you can have T'ealc(sp?).
        *Droooooooool*

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 10 2018, @04:30PM

    by Freeman (732) on Monday September 10 2018, @04:30PM (#732804) Journal

    I'm watching a dystopian post apocalyptic show with a very similar premise. It's quite interesting. So far, they've managed to destroy the earth twice.

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