Climate Change Is Turning Your Produce Into Junk Food

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	FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOOD + FARMING FROM TOM PHILPOTT   MOTHER JONES May 14, 2014   THE MAIN DISH Climate Change Is Turning Your Produce Into Junk Food Climate skeptics like to point out that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere stimulates plant growth—suggesting that ever-growing fossil fuel consumption will lead to an era of bin-busting crop yields. But a groundbreaking study by a global team of researchers has found that heightened levels of atmospheric carbon make key staple crops less nutritious. To find out which crops are at risk—and which nutrients they're losing—click here.   [READ MORE]   SIDE DISH Bribes, Favors, and a Billion-Dollar Yacht: Inside the Crazy World of the Men Who Do Oil Companies' Dirty Work Journalist Ken Silverstein gained unprecedented access to a hyper-reclusive cabal of powerful billionaires. [READ MORE]   ADVERTISEMENT RECIPE OF THE WEEK Making a Hash of Breakfast Blue potatoes, green kale, local bacon, fresh eggs? Sounds like breakfast to me. [READ MORE]     MORE FROM MOJO Why Is the Green Movement So Dominated by White Dudes? Climate change affects minorities and women, the elderly and the poor. But the leadership of the environmental movement is pale and male. [READ MORE]     Follow Tom Philpott on Twitter   Read the Tom Philpott blog Hi. Thanks for signing up for Mother Jones' Food for Thought newsletter. Wait, that was your cat? Smart cat! If you don't want to get Food for Thought, or to make changes to your subscription, click here. And lock up the cat. For advertising opportunities see our online media kit. MOTHERJONES.COM Mother Jones 222 Sutter Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94108