There is nothing more threatening to the world’s supply of food than climate change. A leaked report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a UN committee, stressed a concern of warnings about the risk of food supply due to an increase in temperatures and in carbon dioxide. At first, many of these studies have indicated the rise in carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is a main component of climate change, would be offset by the crops that intake the gas. However, new studies have shown that the plant intake of carbon dioxide is not enough to offset the high concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Further, studies in Stanford and Columbia have shown that the rising heat is slowing down production, questioning the future of crop growth. A dearth of vital food could put the world at risk of a dangerous famine, and lead to uncontrollable riots.
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