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August 6, 2012

U.S. Drought Will Hit Global Food Prices

Heather Mallick, Toronto Star

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Rising food prices are part of the second warming wave, although all such classifications are obviously arbitrary. Was the spruce pine beetle eating Canadian forests part of the first wave or the second? Rising sea levels - for which Britain, New York City and Florida, to name only three sites, are noticeably unprepared - are coming but when?

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TAGGED: Climate Change, Global Warming, Europe, Canada, United States, food, Corn

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