{"id":10282,"date":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/12\/rising-temperatures-melting-away-global-food-security\/"},"modified":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:00:00","slug":"rising-temperatures-melting-away-global-food-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/07\/12\/rising-temperatures-melting-away-global-food-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising Temperatures Melting Away Global Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/news.asp?idnews=56384\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jul 6, 2011 (IPS News): Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate Russian wheat in 2010. Crop ecologists have found that each one-degree Celsius rise in temperature above the optimum can reduce grain harvests by 10 percent. But the indirect effects of higher temperatures on our food supply are no less serious.<\/p>\n<p>Rising temperatures are already melting the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Recent studies indicate that a combination of melting ice sheets and glaciers, plus the thermal expansion of the ocean as it warms could raise sea level by up to six feet during this century. <\/p>\n<p>Yet even a three-foot rise in sea level would sharply reduce the rice harvest in Asia, a region home to over half the world&#8217;s people that grows 90 percent of the world&#8217;s rice. It would inundate half the riceland in Bangladesh and submerge part of the Mekong Delta in Viet Nam. Viet Nam, second only to Thailand as a rice exporter, could lose its exportable rice surplus. <\/p>\n<p>The World Glacier Monitoring Service reported in 2010 the 19th consecutive year of shrinking mountain glaciers. Glaciers are melting in all of the world&#8217;s major mountain ranges, including the Andes, the Rockies, the Alps, the Himalayas, and the Tibetan Plateau. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WASHINGTON, Jul 6, 2011 (IPS News): Heat waves clearly can destroy crop harvests. The world saw high heat decimate,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}