A Drought in Australia, a Global Shortage of Rice

A Drought in Australia, a Global Shortage of Rice.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/17/business/
worldbusiness/17warm.html

I found this to be an excellent article about how global climate change is the likely cause of the, hopefully temporary, collapse of Australia grain crops because of a 100 year drought cycle that has lasted two years so far. How long will it go on? No one really knows. What if Australia can't grow grains next year. Won't that just compound the starvation factor and price factor worldwide?

The article is of the same name as I used in my title at nytimes.com on april 17th 2008