"If you think about it, the use of energy in a city like New York can affect where the food is for these parents that have to try to feed their young in a warming world, " he says.
The IPCC asserted in its 2007 report that the Himalayan glaciers would likely melt by 2035 due to global warming, prompting great alarm across southern and eastern Asia, where glaciers feed major rivers.
To see if insects really might be a more sustainable food source than livestock, Oonincx and his colleagues analyzed what global warming gases insects might generate as a result of respiration, the production of their feed, distribution networks to stores where they would get sold and emissions from the heating of climate-controlled rearing facilities.