Climate change is affecting crop yields and reducing global food supplies
Cherry picking information as usual. " We found that climate change has affected yields in many places. Not all of the changes are negative: Some crop yields have increased in some locations. Overall, however, climate change is reducing global production of staples such as rice and wheat. And when we translated crop yields into consumable calories—the actual food on people's plates—we found that climate change is already shrinking food supplies, particularly in food-insecure developing countries.
'In the United States corn and soybeans are important cash crops, with a combined value of more than US$90 billion in 2017. We found that climate change is causing a small net increase in yields of these crops—on average, about 0.1 percent and 3.7 percent respectively each year. .. In some Corn Belt states, such as Indiana and Illinois, climate change is shaving up to 8 percent off of annual corn yields "