If you think Kansas summers are brutal now, look at what our grandchildren & great-grandchildren will face in the summer of 2090!

Craig Volland of the Kansas Sierra Club has written a pointed article on the potential effects of global warming on Kansas farmers if we continue “business as usual”: Kansas in Global Warming Crosshairs in Future. (Note this link is to an Acrobat .PDF file.)    Click the graphic to the right to see larger color image of the graph in the newsletter, and also a list of reference articles.

This article refers to a paper from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, called The Heat is On Climate Change & Heatwaves in the MIdwest. (Note this link also to Acobat .PDF file.)