Thursday, February 5, 2009

Agriculture Threatened Warns U.S. Secretary

California farms, vineyards in peril from warming, U.S. energy secretary warns


'We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California,'
Steven Chu says. He sees education as a means to combat threat.

California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday.

In his first interview since taking office last month, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist offered some of the starkest comments yet on how seriously President Obama's cabinet views the threat of climate change, along with a detailed assessment of the administration's plans to combat it.

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