{"id":418324,"date":"2025-12-23T10:59:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=418324"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:59:32","slug":"climate-apocalypse-fantasy-from-next-year-crop-yields-will-begin-to-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=418324","title":{"rendered":"Climate Apocalypse Fantasy: From Next Year, Crop Yields will Begin to Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by<\/strong> Eric Worrall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A graph with a predictive inflection point like that would be laughed out of a high school science class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How climate breakdown is putting the world\u2019s food in peril \u2013 in maps and charts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frederick O\u2019Brien<\/a>, Pablo Guti\u00e9rrez<\/a> and Ashley Kirk<\/a>
Thu 18 Dec 2025 18.00 AEDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experts have warned that the world\u2019s ability to feed itself is under threat from the \u201cchaos\u201d of extreme weather caused by climate change.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Crop yields have increased enormously over the past few decades. But early warning signs have arrived as crop yield rates flatline, prompting warnings of efficiency hitting its limits and the impacts of climate change taking effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first glance trends seem positive. Farming methods have become more and more efficient over the last 80 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, multiple projections suggest that climate change will soon have key crops plateauing, then sliding down again. The chart shows how crop yields could fall over the rest of the century under a high-emissions scenario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effects of climate change are predicted to reduce the yields of all of these key crops. This modelling<\/strong> only takes into account forecasts for climate change and income growth, and does not account for other factors that may limit this effect or boost yields, such as technological innovations or land use changes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the world\u2019s population is expected to grow by a further 2 billion by the end of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More than 600 million people worldwide are projected to face food insecurity \u2013 or worse \u2013 by 2030. Increasingly erratic climates will only make the situation worse unless action is taken.

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/18\/how-climate-breakdown-is-putting-the-worlds-food-in-peril-in-maps-and-charts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The following is the abstract of a study cited by the Guardian authors, but I don\u2019t think the Guardian authors had anything to do with the study;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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