Plant Genetic Engineering Needed To Adjust For Climate Change?

David Rotman argues that genetic engineering of plants will be needed to feed the world because climate change will speed the spread of plant diseases. This could lead off into a discussion on whether the globe is warming. Well, the signal from the ocean is much clearer on that score (warming) than the signal from atmospheric temperatures. Since the oceans have way more mass than the atmosphere I'm thinking the oceans are telling us what we need to know. But we don't need global warming in order to see the necessity of crop genetic engineering. Cheaper faster transportation and global trade are already spreading many plant diseases around the world. The spread of plant diseases is nothing new though. The...
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