How is global warming going to effect EVERYBODY?

Question

things such as paying more taxes and such.. any ideas?

Answer 1

Food prices are alreay on their way up.

The days of cheap food are over – and we had all better start getting used to it.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/lea...

http://www.climatechangenews.org/nFood.h...

The World's Growing Food-Price Crisis - TIME

"Soaring prices of staples — which have risen about 75% since 2005, driven by growing demand, rising oil prices and the effects of global warming — have sparked riots in several countries, as people reel from sticker shock and governments scramble to feed their people."

Fresh records for price of wheat- BBC News

"Wheat prices have hit record levels as supplies dwindle, raising concerns about growing food inflation. Reports of a drought in Northern China, where most of the country's wheat is grown, also pushed prices higher. Extreme weather has already damaged crops in other parts of the world and US wheat inventories are expected to fall to their lowest level for 60 years."

A much more detailed analysis of the effects on agriculture, water supplies and qualiity, and electrical demand appears in this report to Congress:

The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the United States

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/effects...

"The effects of a warmer climate alone would generally reduce wheat and corn yields. Yield changes range from + 15 to -90%."

"Dryland farmers in the Great Plains are particularly vulnerable to climate variability. The Great Plains States of Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas were the hardest hit during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s (Worster, 1979; Hurt, 1981). Yields of wheat and corn dropped as much as 50% below normal, causing the failure of about 200,000 farms and migration of more than 300,000 people from the region."

Increased CO2 appears to make food less nutritious:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/Suzu...

Our activities, including agriculture, will have to be localized:

Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society

http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Fr...

Answer 2

It may affect everything you buy.  If it affects regions where we enjoy cheap labor, there goes Walmart ;b

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