Charlie McHenry on Nostr: ‘The most important crop on Earth’ is in danger, University of Washington study ...

‘The most important crop on Earth’ is in danger, University of Washington study finds - “We found that large areas that are major #rice producers are going to face rising temperatures that are unprecedented in the history of rice cultivation. Over the course of the past 10,000 years and its domestication, rice has been adapted to cooler conditions and not to warmer conditions. We used a wide variety of forward-looking climate projection models, and all of those models seem to converge on the same point: Large parts of primary rice growing regions around the world are expected to surpass the known temperature limit where these crops can be cultivated,” the professor explained. “I use the word unprecedented, and I don’t use it lightly. Another term I could apply to this would be no analog. There is no known situation over the course of rice’s cultivation where rice grew in regions which had such high mean annual temperatures. https://www.koin.com/news/environment/the-most-important-crop-on-earth-is-in-danger-university-of-washington-study-finds/ #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming