[MCN] Food in a changing clime: No single scientific specialty sufficient

[Lance Olsen]

U.S. Bread Basket Shifts Thanks to Climate Change
By Niina Heikkinen, ClimateWire on December 23, 2015

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-bread-basket-shifts-thanks-to-climate-change/

Excerpts:

"Even though lots of researchers have studied how 
climate change could affect agriculture in the 
country's 'bread basket,' discussions have been 
siloed. Agronomists talk to other agronomists, 
soil scientists to other soil scientists, and 
agricultural economists talk to agricultural 
economists."

How do you get soil scientists, agricultural 
economists, hydrologists and climate scientists 
to work together across disciplines at the scale 
this paper proposes?

"Lock them in a room and shove pizza under the door," Robertson said, laughing.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-bread-basket-shifts-thanks-to-climate-change/


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"Booms have consequences."

James Grant. Money of the Mind : Borrowing and 
Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael 
Milken. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1992.

Introduction, p.5.
"Real estate speculation must be as old as the 
land - in the United States, it is certainly as 
old as the frontier - and the first bad bank loan 
was no doubt made around the time of the opening 
of the first bank."

"Still, the boom of the 1980s was unique. Not 
only did creditors lend more freely than they had 
in the past, but the government intervened more 
actively than it had ever done before to absorb 
the inevitable losses."

Afterword: End of the Line. Pp. 436-437
"In the early 1990s a number of long-running 
trends were apparently cresting Š. Tommy 
Mullaney, eleven, of Crownsville, Maryland, 
returned home from camp in the summer of 1990 to 
find his name inscribed on a MasterCard complete 
with a $5,000 credit line.  ' I jumped up and 
down and said Wow - the hologram was cool,' 
Tommy told the Washington Post. 'But it sure made 
me wonder who was running that bank'."

James Grant. Money of the Mind: Borrowing and 
Lending in America from the Civil War to Micheal 
Milken. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1992.
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