Global vulnerability of crop yields to climate change
利用网格化年度作物产量面板数据和动态计量模型,区分农民对天气冲击的短期和长期反应并考虑适应性,研究发现气候变化可能在21世纪中期使全球作物产量减少3-12%,世纪末减少11-25%。
Using a newly-available panel dataset of gridded annual crop yields in conjunction with a dynamic econometric model that distinguishes between farmers' short-run and long-run responses to weather shocks and accounts for adaptation, we investigate the risk to global crop yields from climate warming. Over broad spatial domains we observe only slight moderation of short-run impacts by farmers' long-run adjustments. In the absence of additional margins of adaptation beyond those pursued historically, projections constructed using an ensemble of 21 climate model simulations suggest that the climate change could reduce global crop yields by 3–12% by mid-century and 11–25% by century's end, under a vigorous warming scenario.