Romania has been preparing for the Climate Crisis since at least 1999. That means it has been taking serious all the impacts predicted by scientists for decades. It not only studied the impacts, it was measuring events within the country to decide what exactly was occurring.
These small countries have limited national wealth. They invested in the fact that the Climate Crisis would cause serious harm to Earth and the nation's people. They have been preparing, changing paradigms for decades and today the USA is not even a member of the Paris Climate Accord and is one of the biggest greenhouse gas polluters in the world.
There is no decency in the USA by allowing the rest of the world to take this danger seriously while it continued to contribute to the problem they were already dealing with.
Vasile Cuculeanu1, Adriana Marica1, Catalin Simota (1999). Climate change impact on agricultural crops and adaptation options in Romania. (click here)
Climate Research. Vol. 5, 153-160
ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper is to assess the potential effects of climate change on development,
grain yield, and water balance for the main agricultural crops at 5 typical sites located in one of the most
vulnerable zones of Romania. In addition, the paper evaluates possible adaptation measures of crop
management to future climate changes. The vulnerability assessments focused on winter wheat and
maize crops due to the particular importance of these crops in the cultivated areas and the difference
in the genetic type of these crops reflected in their distinct physiological responses to CO2 concentration
level (winter wheat is a C3 crop, while maize is a C4 crop). Outputs from 2 equilibrium 2 × CO2 general
circulation models were used to develop climate change scenarios. CERES simulation models,
linked with a seasonal analysis program included in the dedicated software DSSAT v3.0, were run for
30 yr with baseline climate and climate change scenarios. The results of crop simulations under climate
change scenarios indicated that winter wheat benefits from the interaction of double CO2 concentrations
and higher temperatures, while irrigated maize in southern Romania shows negative responses to
climate change. The adverse impact of climate change on the maize crop can be lessened by using a
longer maturing hybrid, sowing in the last week of April, applying a plant density of 5 plants m–2, and
increasing fertilization levels.
