Sunday, December 05, 2010

India takes steps to protect wheat from global warming - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Although no major impact has been observed on wheat production due to global warming in India in the recent past, the government has taken preventive steps to safeguard the principal crop from rising temperature.

Data show there has been increasing trend since 2007-8 in wheat production, which alone contributes over 71 per cent of total foodgrain production of the country.
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Although no adverse affect of global warming has been noticed on wheat in India so far, the government has taken some timely precautionary steps.
Prof Brian Cox: prettier than Brigstocke but just as wrong – Telegraph Blogs
Unfortunately, it seems, there are one or two things that our Brian doesn’t quite get about Climategate and peer review: as Durkin will now explain.
Climate threats to agriculture risk becoming 'insurmountable' - experts - AlertNet
Worse, by 2080, irrigated wheat production worldwide is predicted to fall by 29 percent, threatening huge increases in malnutrition.
Twitter / Vikram Widge: Lord Stern: China green in ...
Lord Stern: China green industry poised to grow from 3% to 15% of GDP in next 5 yrs. Billions of $ in investments.

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