'Climate tipping points' could 'wipe out' UK crop growing, report warns (www.farminguk.com)

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Researchers have warned about the impact of 'climate tipping points' on the UK due to its position near the North Atlantic, as such an event could 'wipe out' domestic crop growing.

An assessment of climate threats to UK food security has put a spotlight on climate tipping points as a 'severely overlooked danger', a new report published today warns.

Researchers from the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) and others point to the fact that climate change is already playing a significant role in several threats to UK national security, including food supply.

But they warn that the government has a 'blind spot', as major climate threats are not adequately addressed in its national risk register, while some threats – like climate tipping points – are not included at all...

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Good thing the Torries yanked the UK out of the EU. Now British farmers can pull their anemic potatoes out of their bone-dry land without all those pesky immigrants interfering. Checkmate, foreigners!

Nothing good in the history of mankind has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.

[-] Zip2@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

Obviously that’s not good, but serious question: could we potentially grow more crops that are currently suited to warmer climates? Grapes, olives etc?

[-] tankplanker@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's the cost to transition, it's different equipment such as tractors for vines are different from tractors for cereal crops, it's the other facilities, field layouts, soil composition, training for the farmer that they will need support with. Plus picking fruit currently requires people in much larger numbers than harvesting traditional cereals.

With the bad weather we are getting for winter crops with the heavy rain ruining planting, climate change is already here for UK farmers. We have to do something, even if it's just funding to improve drainage for those who can.

The real problem is the lack of appetite from government as it needs actual planning and money, something lacking so far.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure the government that's been privatizing water and dumping record levels of raw sewage onto beaches will get right on this

[-] darko8472@feddit.uk 4 points 3 weeks ago

They’re not in power anymore, so thankfully not

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I am talking about the British government, the aingle incestuous ruling class austerity-and-genocide machine that pretends to have multiple parties. Tories openly make things worse, Labour quietly makes things worse while making tissue-thin excuses to keep Tory policies, hospitals collapse and waterways fill with shit as the cycle goes round.

I'm not trying to be snarky when I say that genuinely, you guys live in a dictatorship of rich ghoul freaks, and the sooner you all stop taking them and the absurdly corrupt British media at their word, the sooner you can stop playing their rigged game.

Like...They're just letting all the schools fall down, how many "just one more election"s are people supposed to put up with that shit?

[-] shath@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

shocked-pikachu

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 0 points 3 weeks ago

Doomer researchers and their hysterical bullshit... /s Edit: Climate deniers cry me a river. lol

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Have you ever grown anything?

How'd your crops turn out this year?

Too dry?

Too wet?

New pests?

New diseases?

Enjoy eating clay.

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