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There's more to farming than temperature. A lot of people think that, as things get warmer, we'll simply move agriculture further to the north. But it's also a matter of soil fertility - many of the most fertile areas that we have today will be adversely affected, and the new ones that'll open up due to warming (e.g. in Canada and in Siberia) have very poor soils.



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