Could these prices increase over time?
A new study published in the journal Climate Change found that the overall effect of climate change could reduce food production by 0.5 percent by the end of the decade. Even scarier? Food production could decrease by 2.3 percent mid-century.
Price wise, this means that the cost of staple foods like sugar, wheat, and grains could increase by 40 percent. Fruits and vegetables could be 30 percent more expensive; rice, 20 percent.
The study took into consideration the effects of changes in precipitation, temperature, CO2, river flow, and land area. "Often the impacts of climate on food and water are treated separately, but really the interaction is very important as agriculture is one of the dominant consumers of freshwater," Dr. Andy Wiltshire, co-author, told Carbon Brief. An increase in carbon dioxide, one of the main sources of food, could help increase plant production, but a change in temperature would have a larger effect on depleting crops (see:droughts). So the future? Looking bleak. Let's all drive electric cars.
Comment: It is common sense that climate changes will affect the crops and thus the food prices, but driving electric cars will do nothing to change the situation, since the fact is that the Earth seems to be entering another Ice Age, and this has nothing to do with carbon emissions:
Global Cooling: Sudden European temperature plunge over the last decade... Are we on the brink of a Little Ice Age?
Ice Age cometh: Global cooling consensus is heating up - cooling over the next one to three decades
Major Danish daily warns: "Globe may be on path to Little Ice Age...Much colder winters...Dramatic consequences"!
1974 CIA shock report: "The western world's leading climatologists" warn of a return to the little ice age