Global warming boosts crop disease


	Global warming boosts crop disease

kkcapricorn

8-14-2007 8:24 PM

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climate change, rapeseed plants, canola oil

kkcapricorn says:

What a shame. Canola oil is one of the "good" oils.

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Global warming will fuel a disease that annually causes hundreds of million dollars in damage to rapeseed plants, used to make canola oil, according to a study released Tuesday.                        
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Using weather-based computer models, researchers in <SPAN id="lw_1187108216_0">Britain</SPAN> predicted that climate change will expand the range and increase the severity of phoma stem canker, which already accounts for 900 million dollars (650 million euros) in losses each year.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070814/sc_afp/sciencewarming"><P>
Plant pathologist Neal Evans, who led the research, forecast that the disease would move from England north to <SPAN id="lw_1187108216_1">Scotland</SPAN>, where it does not currently exist.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070814/sc_afp/sciencewarming"><P>
The top rapeseed growers in the world are <SPAN id="lw_1187108216_2">China</SPAN>, <SPAN id="lw_1187108216_3">Canada</SPAN>, <SPAN id="lw_1187108216_4">India</SPAN>, Germany, France and Britain, accounted for nearly 80 percent of worldwide harvests.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070814/sc_afp/sciencewarming"><P>
The <SPAN id="lw_1187108216_5">United Nations</SPAN> authority on climate change has said earlier this year human activity is almost certain to blame for global warming, and warned that the Earth's average surface temperature could rise between 1.1 and 6.4 degrees by 2100.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DC5F8728-69CD-4309-9D9E-3683C69D2875/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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