Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Crops

Joint Program Reprint • Journal Article
Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Crops
Blanc, E. and J. Reilly (2015)
Choices, 30(2): 1–4

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Abstract/Summary:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) (Romero-Lankao et al., 2014) found that climate change is responsible in part for historical yield increases in the United States thanks to increased precipitation. Since 1999, however, yield losses have been attributed to extreme weather events, such as heat waves, storms, and droughts and the IPCC concludes that in many crop growing regions of North America optimum temperatures have been reached and further warming would be detrimental to crop yields. What to expect in the future?

© 2015 CHOICES

Citation:

Blanc, E. and J. Reilly (2015): Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Crops. Choices, 30(2): 1–4 (http://globalchange.mit.edu/publication/16184)
  • Joint Program Reprint
  • Journal Article
Climate Change Impacts on U.S. Crops

Blanc, E. and J. Reilly

Choices
2015-10
30(2): 1–4

Abstract/Summary: 

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) (Romero-Lankao et al., 2014) found that climate change is responsible in part for historical yield increases in the United States thanks to increased precipitation. Since 1999, however, yield losses have been attributed to extreme weather events, such as heat waves, storms, and droughts and the IPCC concludes that in many crop growing regions of North America optimum temperatures have been reached and further warming would be detrimental to crop yields. What to expect in the future?

© 2015 CHOICES

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