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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)
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 10 2018, @04:17AM
>> The 97% concensus figure is made up bullshit, and most of the loudest proponents are not scientists at all.
> Doesn't seem like mad up bullshit to me. [skepticalscience.com] And the second point is irrelevant; true information is true even if it's spread by someone who doesn't fully understand it.
That's John Cook's site, the author of the paper that started the 97% lie! Messages from their private forum were leaked to the Internet, showing how they decided the conclusion before they started the research, and designed the methodology to show it! The whole thing was a farce and a lie. You're on the Internet--do your homework! Read about it on Anthony Watts' and Judith Curry's sites.