Global Warming Threatens Grain Harvest

"The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that the world's grain harvest is falling because of severe weather. Increasingly, animals compete with humans at the shrinking trough: Meat production is increasing and most of it is raised on grain.

Cline's study was released Wednesday by the Centre for Global Development and Peterson Institute for International Economics. A senior fellow at the privately funded Washington think tanks, he based his projections on temperature and rainfall models used by the pre-eminent scientific brain trust on the issue, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."