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- <title>
- May 28, 1990: American Notes:Ecology
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- May 28, 1990 Emergency!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- ECOLOGY
- Bad Weather, Good Crops
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Sure, a worldwide rise in temperatures brought on by
- increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 could produce
- coastal flooding, choking droughts, crop failures and
- widespread food shortages. But the greenhouse effect does have
- its sunny side.
- </p>
- <p> Last week, after the most exhaustive study yet of the
- economic and agricultural consequences of global warming, a
- group of scientists announced that while some Sunbelt farming
- regions in the U.S. might be devastated by a 7 degrees F
- average increase in temperature, other regions farther north
- would enjoy a longer growing season, benefiting such crops as
- corn and soybeans.
- </p>
- <p> Consumers, as usual, would get clobbered. The study,
- sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency and published
- in the science journal Nature, notes that food prices could
- rise because of the reduced rainfall across the Southeast and
- Southwest.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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