Global Warming Effects On Foods

Global warming has shown significant effects on crops in the United States over the past few decades. With overall temperature rising, crops are producing less food leading to less food available. Global warming is setting off a chain of events leading to a possible future food crisis. The crops being primarily affected are corn and soybeans. (Schlenker, 2014) The U.S. is currently using corn for multiple purposes such as fuel, food for people and ranches. The U.S. also produces 41 percent of the world’s corn causing a loss in profit and making some countries have to conserve corn usage. (Schlenker, 2014) Green house gases have been found to affect the climate that is raising the temperature leading to certain food products to be above safe …show more content…
Earth is 4.54 billion years old with humans existing around 200,000. That equals .0000000440529 percent of the Earth’s existence we have existed, (CAIN, 2009) making it hard to believe that humans are killing the Earth in such a small amount of time. The Earth has been through ice ages and killed off almost the entire planet in the past. What is there to say that global warming isn’t just natural? There have been ideas that the sun could be a cause of the gasses hurting our food production. (Schlenker, 2014) The sun emits radiation to the Earth every second somewhere causing a build up over billions of years. Scientists have not been able to explain naturally how the increase in temperature is …show more content…
Using drills we can extract dirt from hundreds of feet below the surface. Carbon dating will show the time period the soil was near the surface giving us accurate information of when in the past these conditions may have reappeared if they ever have. After the soil is extracted we will test multiple samples to see if they match our current topsoil. We will also look to see if the conditions building up to it are the same back then as they were with us. If test are inconclusive then we should investigate other possibilities. To test if the sun’s radiation on the Earth’s global warming would be done by testing soil below ground for radiation amounts. We would be looking for a slow build up over a long period of time. Calculation the build up of radiation should show us whether or not the sun is affecting global warming over extensive amounts of time. I am expecting the results to show that in the past millenniums this exact condition we are experiencing now have happened before. Those results would lead us to conclude global warming to be nature. If results show that nothing similar to our conditions have happened before then future research is needed. Our next steps would be testing long term affects of radiation and pollution to see if any correlations can be