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...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...
...take the greatest extremes of warming to make life uncomfortable for large numbers of people. Even slightly higher temperatures in regions that are already drought- or flood-prone would exacerbate those conditions. In temperate zones, warmth and increased CO2 would make some crops flourish--at first. But beyond 3[degrees] of warming, says Bill Easterling, a professor of geography and agronomy at Penn State and a lead author of the IPCC report, "there would be a dramatic turning point. U.S. crop yields would start to decline rapidly." In the tropics, where crops are already at the limit of their temperature...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu
Joseph P. Flood contributed to the reporting of this article...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...