For years, scientists have warned about the climatic crisis hanging over the planet: the world has already encountered incredible waves of heat and drought, and it seems that it will only be worse. Studies show that climate change has already led to weeks of withering of the crop in Western Africa, which are leaders of world supplies. This situation has already influenced the crop and spurred the prices of products even more, but the situation may worsen, writes Science Alert.

This region accounts for about 70% of the world production of cocoa and in the past few years local farmers fought with heat, diseases and unusual precipitation, which contributed to a drop in production. This led to an incredible increase in prices for cocoa, which is made from cocoa beans and is the main ingredient in chocolate.

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The new report of the independent research group Climate Central says that the anthropogenic climate change leads to the fact that higher temperatures are becoming increasingly frequent in cat-d'Ivoire, Ghana, Camerun and Nigeria. The study shows that the situation is especially complicated in the cat-d'Ivoire and Ghana-the two largest manufacturers of cocoa.

In their study, scientists used observations from 44 regions of cocoa production in West Africa and computer models, and then compared today's temperatures with the world without the consequences of climate change. Researchers examined the likelihood that the regions will encounter a temperature above 32 degrees Celsius - above a level that is considered optimal for cocoa trees.

In their report, scientists also found that over the past decade, climate change has added additional three weeks of heat above 32 degrees Celsius in Cot-D'Ivoire and Ghana during the main growth season from October to March. The results also indicate that last year, which became the hottest in the history of observations, the period when the temperature exceeded the optimal one amounted to 42 days in two -thirds of the analyzed areas.

Now scientists believe that " The authors of the study also believe that there are other factors that can potentially harm the cocoa gate and lead to an increase in prices. These factors include:.

According to professor at the University of Mississippi Narcisa Prikop, the crop is faced with an " Alas, the main factor in this drying is greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet.

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