OMG: "Thanks to Climate Change, by 2050 America's Breadbasket Will Be in Canada"

[Odin2005]

http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=thanks_to_climate_change_by_2050_america&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6200114.stm



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EDIT: Oh nuts, I just realized someone already posted this. :spank:

[Donnachaidh]

1. no WONDER they want to make a North American Union!

:eyes:

[MidwestTransplant]

2. No war for bread!!!!

[Kutjara]

3. I'd be very worried if I were Canadian.

No doubt some whacko US President (perhaps the unholy offspring of one of the Bush twins) will decide that the Canadians stole our arable land and declare war to 'get it back.' The Iraqis know all about what happens if you happen to be sitting on a resource that the USA wants.

[slackmaster]

7. Fifty-Four Forty or FIGHT!

[slackmaster]

4. So, will they be able to grow pineapples in Nebraska?

Or bananas in Oklahoma?

[Lautremont]

5. All your breadbasket are belong to us.

[mike_c]

6. this is the CLIMATIC RANGE of the current and predicted wheat belt....

Much of that land won't grow wheat no matter what the climate. It is currently tundra and tiaga.

[Odin2005]

15. Good point, a lot of that areas has really poor soils.

[formercia]

8. Or coconuts in Maine

and coca trees. Who needs the Third World.

[DRoseDARs]

9. Yes, already posted but you provided a link to the original BBC article not just SciAm's blurb. n/t

[angstlessk]

10. BREAKING NEWS: Canada is IN America...just not the USA...get over it!

Sorry...just reiterating how very close minded we people from the USA are...Mexico, USA and Canada are all America...Then of course we have South and Central America...IT IS A CONTINENT..NOT A COUNTRY! We make fun of bush for calling Africa a country...then we call America a country...

[louis-t]

11. Can't wait for the faux news headline:

"Global Warming a Good Thing?"

edit my distracted typing.

[applegrove]

12. All the while the USA and neocons try and undo our wheat board....

a co-op that makes sure farmers get the best price for Canadian Wheat.

[TygrBright]

13. Our retirement plan: A citrus grove in MN. n/t

[NNadir]

14. I wonder how this will effect our brazillions of barrels of ethanol?

[Odin2005]

16. Uh, maybe we can grow sugarcane?

:yoiks:

[phantom power]

17. Any particular reason to predict it will grow better than grain?

[Odin2005]

18. Unfortunately no.

:-(


We're soooo screwed...

[NNadir]

21. Ah Brazilian ethanol, right in South Dakota.

It sounds great! I can't wait. I think I'll chop down some trees and put them in my renewable energy furnace to help speed things along.

[Journeyman]

19. That'll be fine. . .

at the rate were depleting it, the Oglala Aquifer will be dry long before then.


Global warming isn't the only ecological disaster ahead of us.

[catnhatnh]

20. On the other hand....

....I'm hoping New Hampshire will be our new Cancun....Children, can you say "Girls Gone Wild"??? I knew that you could....pass the umbrella drinks please, extra tropical fruit...