Daily Archives: June 8, 2011

Climate change and food (in)security

by Judith Curry

A recent NYTimes article highlighted the issue of climate change impact on global food insecurity.  Roger Pielke Jr has criticizes this analysis in several posts [here and here], arguing that recent extreme weather events are not attributable to AGW and that self-reported food insecurity is at odds with model results from the FAO and USDA.   Lets take a deeper look at the issue of food security, and place climate change in a broader context of this complex issue.

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