Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat

D. Battisti; R. Naylor

DOI:10.1126/science.1164363

Corpus ID: 8658033

Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat

@article{Battisti2009HistoricalWO,
  title={Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat},
  author={D. Battisti and R. Naylor},
  journal={Science},
  year={2009},
  volume={323},
  pages={240 - 244}
}

D. Battisti, R. Naylor

Published 2009

Medicine, Environmental Science

Science

Higher growing season temperatures can have dramatic impacts on agricultural productivity, farm incomes, and food security. We used observational data and output from 23 global climate models to show a high probability (>90%) that growing season temperatures in the tropics and subtropics by the end of the 21st century will exceed the most extreme seasonal temperatures recorded from 1900 to 2006. In temperate regions, the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations… CONTINUE READING

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