“A United Nations panel of scientists says that globally, rising temperatures will make it harder for crops to thrive.”
Photo credit: Josh Haner/The New York Times

– “Climate Change Seen Posing Risk to Food Supplies”
“Climate change will pose sharp risks to the world’s food supply in coming decades, potentially undermining crop production and driving up prices at a time when the demand for food is expected to soar, scientists have found.”

“The warnings come in a leaked draft of a report under development by a United Nations panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The document is not final and could change before it is released in March.

The report also finds other sweeping impacts from climate change already occurring across the planet, and warns that these are likely to intensify as human emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise. The scientists describe a natural world in turmoil as plants and animals colonize new areas to escape rising temperatures, and warn that many could become extinct,” quoting Justin Gillis in The New York Times.
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– “Report: Warming likely to make bad things worse”
“Many of the ills of the modern world — starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts,” quoting the AP.
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– “Executive Order — Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change”
Issued by The White House.
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– UPDATE: February 15, 2014
“Drought Threatens to Cripple California Agriculture Industry”
Food crisis looms as USA’s top farming state’s agricultural industry threatened in “unprecedented” drought emergency.
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– UPDATE: March 18, 2014
“Climate Change Risks Are Real, Warn Economists and Scientists”
Read more from Laura Poppick, LiveScience.

– UPDATE: May 6, 2014
“UAE will place ‘emphasis on securing food supplies’”
“It is vital we aggressively promote water conservation, top official says”
By Binsal Abdul Kader, Gulf News.
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– UPDATE: May 7, 2014
“How Global Warming May Starve Us: More Carbon, Less Nutrition”
By Maggie Fox, NBC News.
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– UPDATE: May 5, 2015
“California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System”
“On April 1, California Governor Jerry Brown stood in a field in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, beige grass stretching out across an area that should have been covered with five feet of snow. The Sierra’s snowpack — the frozen well that feeds California’s reservoirs and supplies a third of its water — was just eight percent of its yearly average,” by Natasha Geiling, Think Progress.
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UPDATE: August 22, 2015
“Extreme weather to cause extreme food shortages, task force finds”

“Food shortages and price hikes caused by extreme weather will be three times more likely over the coming decades, according to a new report.
The U.K.-U.S. Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience found that unless better planning, modeling and trade arrangements are put in place, massive disruptions to our food supply — the kind that usually only occur once a century — will happen every 30 years, ” quoting Thomas M. Kostigen, Special for USA TODAY.
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Ramtha has stressed the importance of storing food for over 3 decades
“The important issue of preparedness I taught many years ago is that I asked for all of the people who would listen to put up food and to become sovereign and to have lots of water but to have it out of the ground, and to put up food for all of those concerned in your life, and to be sovereign — utterly sovereign — to save your clothing and to put it up, and to work towards a point that regardless of what would happen with the world you could continue to sustain yourself. Now that is not a new teaching. That happened many years ago in your time. But it is still important because the times that I spoke about are already here and are unfolding.”
– Ramtha
September, 1993
(Excerpt from: Taking the Journey Inward, September 16, 1993. Ramtha Dialogues®, Tape 9322 ed.)

– Ramtha’s Recommendations for Sovereignty – for everyone
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