It’s also fortunate that those who accept the science of climate change are ignoring the debate over who or what is causing it. Instead, they are focusing on how humans will survive. They realize the world of our children will not sustain the population that inhabits it today.
Recently, a group of British scientists announced that they had decoded the genetic sequence of wheat — a grain critical to the survival of many on this planet.
Some will say, so what? What is a genetic sequence, anyway? How do we even know it exists?
Like many things flat-Earth folks want to pretend doesn’t exist, the wheat genome is that critical bit of knowledge that will help scientists identify genetic variations. Those variations can cause wheat to resist disease, resist drought and increase yield.
In other words, this knowledge is going to help other scientists breed wheat that will survive the climate changes that are occurring, even though there are those who still deny they’re happening. In terms of this type of research, it is “the holy grail of plant genomes,” Nick Talbot, a professor of biosciences at the University of Exeter in England, told the Associated Press.
Wheat is grown on more of the world’s farmland than any other cereal. If climate change made it impossible to grow this grain, the lives of millions of people who depend on wheat as the basis for their sustenance would be at risk. Economies would be in danger, as well. Some researchers even predict catastrophic circumstances. (Sure, there are those who see this as the coming of something prophesized in the Scriptures. But most people want their daily bread, and these scientists are finding a way to provide it.)
For those who are not scientists, but who believe evidence that the climate is changing and worry about what these changes will bring, here is one bit of good news.
Some scientists are looking out for us. This page is glad they are.
