I keep thinking about Paul Krugman's piece about the
contributions of climate change to the sharp rises in food prices
that have helped to provoke unrest around the world:"But the
pattern we're seeing, with extreme highs and extreme weather in
general becoming much more common, is just what you'd expect
from climate change.
The usual suspects will, of course, go wild over suggestions
that global warming has something to do with the food crisis; those
who insist that Ben Bernanke has blood on his hands tend to be more
or less the same people who insist that the scientific consensus on
climate reflects a vast leftist conspiracy.
But the evidence does, in fact, suggest that what we're
getting now is a first taste of the disruption, economic and
political, that we'll face in a warming world. And given our
failure to act on greenhouse gases, there will be much more, and
much worse, to come."
