World temperature, food and wars, from Jeff Watson
Jeff Watson writes:
Temperature minimums tend to increase grain prices. The second chart below is Dutch Guilders per 100 kg of wheat (in France, Italy, England, Germany) . The first chart is rye: an indexed price series in Germany. Cold weather crops like rye, barley, oats, milo etc also show huge increases in prices.
Stefan Jovanovich writes:
Jeff may disagree, but I think you have to include the effects of
war. The two conflicts that were, in their own ways, as ruinous as the 2
World Wars: the 30 Years War (1618-1648) and the Napoleonic Wars
(1803-1815) - both overlaps the periods of dramatic increases in grain
prices in the charts.
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anonymous writes:
Or perhaps, during minimums, war is more prevalent, I don't know. As an aside, here's an interesting article from the National Geographic.
While not a peer reviewed journal, an interesting takeaway quote that
provides food for thought is: "Temperature is not a direct cause of war
and social disturbance…The direct cause of war and social disturbance
is the grain price. That is why we say climate change is the ultimate
cause."
Comments
Anonymous on August 5, 2016 2:01 am
Went to victors talk tonight and the frog analogy was Best advice very valuable i owe ypu my life for that. I still dont understand why in the spirit of ayn rand u subject ypurself to the masses because most of the people there dont understand what ur saying and the rest of us are dealing with having way too much money than time and not knowing what to do with it besides getting into trouble