Global Warming, Food Shortage, and Dystopian Futures

More coming out of late about impending food crises due to global warming and its decimation of crops in various parts of the world:

America's Summer of Drought, Global Food Shortage, and Dystopian Futures: Report on Travels in the Heartland

Readers will perhaps know from remarks I've made here of late that, in the last part of July, the hottest month on record in American history, Steve and I took a trip into the American heartland.  Steve had business-related work in Kansas City, and I accompanied him in order to have a small break from my everyday routines.  Since he had saved a day off allocated for his birthday, we also had an extra day (and weekend time) which enabled him to drive us up to Sioux City, Iowa, to visit an elderly cousin with whom he's been in touch about family history, but whom he'd never met.