AFP: Warming set to make corn prices pop
PARIS — Climate change will more than quadruple US corn prices in years of peak volatility, environmental scientists said on Sunday.
In a study of the factors that drive up prices in the world's key market for corn, more frequent heatwaves, predicted as a result of global warming, proved far more important than government policies to promote biofuels or than higher oil prices.
"Severe heat is the big hammer," said Noah Diffenbaugh of Stanford University in California.
..."By the time today's elementary schoolers graduate from colleage, the US corn belt could be forced to move to the Canadian border to escape devastating heat waves brought on by rising global temperatures," it said.
What Temperature Is Best to Grow Sweet Corn? | eHow.com
Corn grows fastest in daytime temperatures of 93 degrees F, although temperatures anywhere between 85 and 100 degrees result in nearly ideal growth
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Temperatures in the Twin Cities region range from an average of 13.1 °F (−10 °C) in January to 73.2 °F (23 °C) in July.
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The Global Warming Hoax has already quadrupled the price of corn by mandating it be used as fuel. So, I guess they are right.
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