•US farmers in the upper Midwest struggle with
harvest due to rain and snow. (First hand accounts 2009)
•Japan accelerates research in new food strains to withstand colder temperatures.
(NHK World - Japan 2009)
Regional temperature changes in Japan affect farm production and change the growing period. (NHK World - Japan
2009)
•Australia's South Wales loses it's rice industry due to drought. (BBC World News
2009)
•Ship captains in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of
California) in Mexico are unable to us traditional navigation methods for
forecasting overnight weather conditions. (First hand accounts 2005)
•Reproduction cycles for shrimp and other species are changing due to changes in water temperature in the Sea of Cortez (Government Agency Mexico
2008)