Reis ist angesichts der globalen Erwärmung nicht so schön. Ernteaufzeichnungen aus Japan und China deuten darauf hin, dass hohe Nachttemperaturen die Qualität von Reis, einem Grundnahrungsmittel für Milliarden Menschen, beeinträchtigen. Modellierungen deuten darauf hin, dass die Reisqualität weiter sinken wird, wenn der Klimawandel unkontrolliert bleibt.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03668-9
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People will replant from the crops that did well and will eat, process or toss from the ones that did not. The rice will continue to be engineered to work as our crop. Nothing will change, except for the rice that will soon do well in higher night time temps.
Theres a paywall, but couldn’t this also just be solved by using a different strain of rice? SEA/india grows rice too in warmer climates.
What if they… dum dum duuuuum …grow it somewhere else
Should read “rice quality *will* decline as climate change goes unchecked”, because no one with any real power is ever going to take it seriously. (at least in the US)
Doesn’t matter people won’t change until they have literally no other alternative. Let em roast.
I suggest the book ‘The death of grass’
Commercial/industrial scale farming is going to move indoors, underground, and underwater (aquaculture), where the environment will be much better controlled, and stuff like pesticide use will be rare. Micro-scale farming is going to blossom in households for certain fruits, veggies, and spices. These processes will be gradual, until climate change forces them to accelerate.
Rice is a major world crop any percentage drop in production is a huge loss of food. Rice is not the only crop to be affected by increased day and night temps. We will breed better adapted plants, lose some foods and adopt different foods better suited to the heat.
Or, quite possibly, farming will move indoors or underground in climate controlled areas
Rice is not good for the environment anyway.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/06/how-rice-is-hurting-the-planet/
–will continue to decline BECAUSE* climate change goes unchecked.” fixed it.
From what I can tell the quality of rice will continue to decline.
Well. I have some bad news for billions of people.
Hey lets just collect um all while we are here, Pasta, Bread, Tortillas, Dumplings, Nana, and any other
Science sometimes is stupid
HAHAHAH we’re so fucked, the carbon cycle is a 50 year cycle, the affects we are feeling now are caused by the pollution in 1975. We need to make a change YESTERDAY.
Climate change just bent on ruining everything I love and all I can do is watch the clowns running the show do not an iota.
Bilderburg specifically promoted 2 billion people on the planet. There are 8 billion now. Do the math.
I won’t pay that price to read it, but wouldn’t they just eventually switch to rice strains that are more tolerant to warmer weather? Doesn’t half of the worlds rice come much warmer countries like India?
Addressing climate change might inconvenience some billionaires and enrage their supporters in trailer parks throughout America. Our incoming “administration” will never tolerate that.
(/s but is it really?)
Maybe china should do something about this. It’s their problem
With sea level rise we will see lot of farming land turn into wasteland and rice production will suffer. Farmers will have to adapt and move from raise to whatever can adapt to new climate, for example they will do fish and shrimp farming instead.
Can anyone with access to the article explain what they mean by “quality” of rice? How is it quantified?
Bye-bye rice. You will be missed.