Media Advisory for 11 am: Lester Brown on Rising Temperatures and Rising Food Prices - "If we continue with business as usual on the climate front, it is only a matter of time before what we are seeing in Russia becomes commonplace."

ON TUESDAY,  AUGUST 10,  2010,  at 11 a.m. EDT,   in advance of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's world grain harvest estimate on Thursday,  environmental analyst Lester Brown will discuss the heat and drought currently decimating Russia's grain crops,  what Russia's loss on grain exports means for world food prices and how this calamity foreshadows future climate-related crises.

Brown is  one of the world's foremost authorities on the connection between climate and agriculture (see Ponzi...