Wheat region shifts north by 2050 (a picture essay)

[phantom power]

There's only one picture, but it's captivating:



http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=thanks_to_climate_change_by_2050_america&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

[havocmom]

1. Learn to garden, people

And get serious about getting informed about water rights.

[phantom power]

3. Garden what? Canadians?

[havocmom]

6. If you have a window and floor space for a bag of soil, you can grow greens

and any food you produce yourself might be the difference in surviving sometime soon.

[brokensymmetry]

7. Maybe....

On the one hand, you're right, a garden might
keep a person alive.

But with climate change...with failing rains...
I wonder if that garden has a chance. Can we
water it? Can the plants grow?

Dead serious. I really wonder if a garden
isn't just another case of trying to treat
cancer with a band-aid.

[havocmom]

8. didn't say to garden in lieu of taking other actions

But one can't address problems dead and greens are important in avoiding that dead state ;)

[kestrel91316]

17. Produce will get so expensive, the only way to have tomatoes will be to

grow our own. Check out Square Foot Gardening. You'd be amazed what you can grow in tiny spaces.

Here in LA the heat is becoming the limiting factor. It got to 119 this summer. Killed my entire garden in spite of watering.

[mike_c]

2. can you say dust bowl...?

Wow. That is gonna hurt.

[phantom power]

5. No prob: as you can see, Alaska will be America's new bread basket!

[mike_c]

9. yeah, climate wise-- fertile soil and tillable acreage are a different...

...matter altogether. Much of that region is tundra and tiaga. If the permafrost melts it will take a long time to become arable, if it ever does.

[NickB79]

10. I was gonna say, isn't that soil mostly thin and rocky?

Just how productive is Arctic soil compared to the soil found in the Great Plains region?

[phantom power]

11. Indeed. I doubt anybody's going to be farming the Canadian Rockies.

[kestrel91316]

18. I like how the map shows wheat being grown on Denali.

Maybe they will terrace it..........

[bananas]

4. Eat pancakes now while you still can!

[applegrove]

12. 1/2 of that area is where the tar sand smog will be. I think Alberta is

planning on going nuclear to boil the tar sands. Which is clean until you think that the waste from nuclear plants stays around for thousands of years.

If the choice is between wheat and oil..who do ya think will win?

[caligirl]

13. It would not bother me to see wheat disappear, but not this way.

celiac sprue runs in the family, no wheat barley or rye allowed. Should I be kind of happy about this?

[kestrel91316]

19. Loss of wheat will make the cost of all other grains/carb sources go up.

No man is an island.

[HereSince1628]

14. Isn't CIMMYT a major cheerleader for GM crops?

Just saying this bears somewhat on the bioclimatographic conclusions. This is on the extreme of things I've previously seen for warming effects on the upper midwest.

[amandabeech]

15. Does anyone know what temperature increase is assumed

for this map?

I can't find anything in the BBC report.

[autorank]

16. Just relax everybody...there is and has been a SOLution for some time...

and just remember

"Recycle or die. Die and then recycle. Tuesday is Soylent Green day."