2007-03-16

Warming Causes Decrease in Crop Yield

Livermore Laboratory, Carnegie Institution Dept of Global Ecology
Lead author: David Lobell, Christopher Field
Where published: Environmental Research Letters

From 1981-2002, fields of wheat, corn and barley throughout the world have produced a combined 40 million metric tons less per year because of increasing temperatures caused by human activities. There is clearly a negative response of global yields to increased temperatures.

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