A most gloomy view of world weather trends has emerged

A most gloomy view of world weather trends has emerged from the Central Intelligence Agency. The report was made public, with CIA permission, by the House Agriculture Committee to force decision makers in government to come to grips with what some committee members feel is a serious problem. Says one, “we must no longer accept with blind faith the notion that food production will continue to increase and climates will remain stable.”

The CIA “working paper contends that the global climate is cooling after 50 years of the most favorable farming weather since the eleventh century.

The economic and political impact, the report asserts, “is almost beyond comprehension" This is made crystal clear when one considers that the stability of most nations is indeed based upon a dependable source of food. Without that stability, the politics of food becomes the central issue of every government. Here are the major points made in the study: There is evidence that the main climatic shift over the last 10 years has been confined to the backwaters of the world where death through starvation and disease were already a common occurrence.

However, Russia has already felt the impact through two crippling failures of its wheat crop in the last five years. And even the United States and Canada have fallen victim to reduced crop yields by slowly deteriorating weather and shorter growing seasons.
The data collected by the CIA also shows that the needed monsoon rains will fall more frequently throughout much of Asia, jeopardizing the critical wheat crop in India and the rice harvests throughout Southeast Asia. The report pointed out that a change of just one degree in the mean global temperature can cause a drastic reduction in productivity of farmland.

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