Global Warming and the World Food Supply

I’ve had the pleasure of speaking several times with Mario Gottfried, inventor, visionary, and all-around cool guy at his home in Mexico.  In response to my recent piece on global warming, he writes:

I was asked to predict the effects of global weather change around 10 years ago, and was accused of being dramatic and overexaggerating, but the prediction has come true, food worldwide has increased in price by +/-50%. Soon, to be 100%, then 200%. I said fuel would increase by 100%, which was short.

You don’t want to know what I am predicting for the next 10 years….

Mario, I hear you.  If last summer’s heat wave that decimated Russia’s wheat harvest of (100 million bushels) had hit Chicago (400 million bushels), it would have severely impacted the world food supply. 

Very few people are facing up to the real danger of famine here.  Thanks for being one of them.