“Climate change could heighten risk of global food production ‘shocks’”–Michelle Tigchelaar writes about her recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Michelle Tichelaar, a postdoctoral researcher at UW Atmospheric Sciences and others show in the PNAS paper that climate change will increase the likelihood of major crop failures of corn, and other crops, and provides context for the article in her piece for “Carbon Brief”
Tigchelaar, M., Battisti, D. S., Naylor, R. L. and Ray, D. K. (2018) Future warming increases probability of globally synchronized maize production shocks, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1718031115