Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 8/10/21


Without immediate and broad-scale action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, global warming almost certainly will result in heat waves, changes in rainfall patterns and agricultural droughts, said a report by the UN climate change panel on Monday. Agricultural and ecological droughts were likely to become more frequent in western North America, said the report. Occurrences of heavy precipitation would increase in central North America — the U.S. farm belt — and eastern North America. The scientists writing the report did not agree on whether...

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