Living in Bomb Time — Ep. 09

Projected Changes to US Crop Yields by 2050

Bomb Time — The hyper accelerated rate of warming and climate change that will compress 1,000 years of normal inter-glacial warming into the next 30 years of human time as the thermal pulse from our “climate bomb” hits the planet.

There was a lot of Climate Disaster news last week

Here are the two things that are the most important

“In the end, it always came down to food” Morgan Jones, Walking Dead, Season 3

Which is why this week’s column uses a map that frequent readers will recall seeing before. It was prepared last year by the Rhodium Group of analysts for ProPublica and the NYT and was published in a series of articles they ran looking at the impacts of climate change on the US. Of all the projected impacts of a rapidly warming planet, this map is the one that scares me the most.

Because it says that the future is going to be a hungry place, and hungry people will do anything in order to eat.

In the massive litany of climate change fueled disasters that unfolded on the planet last week:

-Unprecedented rains followed by deadly flooding in central China, India, and Europe.

-Temperatures of 120 Fahrenheit (49 Celsius) in Canada, and tropical heat in Finland and Ireland.