Habitual climate miserablists should take a look around at the real world now and again. This year’s poor UK wheat harvest, reported by the BBC with a ‘climate change’ tag, looks like the exception not the rule.
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The International Grains Council (IGC) is reporting that global corn, wheat, and rice production is on pace to set new records this year, destroying an incessant parade of media claims that global warming is devastating crop production.
Here at Climate Realism, we have documented and debunked many of the ridiculous media claims that climate change is decimating crop production, some in the last month.
Global crop production, as well as crop production in most of the world’s nations, sets new records virtually every year as our planet modestly warms.
Now, the IGC reports – unsurprisingly – that the same is happening in 2020.
The online agriculture news service, World-Grain.com published a story, “IGC projects record output for corn, wheat and soybeans,” highlighting the findings of the International Grains Council (IGC), that it expects the harvest of key cereal crops, corn, rice, soybeans, and wheat, which are the core staple crops for many peoples around the world, to set records in 2020.
Full article here.
“Here at Climate Realism, we have documented and debunked many of the ridiculous media claims that climate change is decimating crop production, some in the last month. “
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So was the theorised crop reduction 10% of the average (IMO its true meaning), or was it more?
Certainly UK wheat crop has slipped a little but overall its appears to be within normal variations. China has lost more agriculture output to disease, pest and weather, North America too has its share of unseasonably harsh weather but this would indicate that the global agricultural markets may be quite buoyant in the short term.
The miserablists are only interested in infecting the rest of us with their negative weather propaganda.
Will somebody tell the idiots at the BBC that a warming planet with abundant CO2 in the atmosphere is what is needed to increase crop production not the other way round.
Maybe if the wackademics got out of their ivory towers and looked at the real world they might see the truth.
what ivan says!
What “discount rate” should we use for the harm caused by record harvests?
@ ivan:
I think you have found the one thing they can’t blame on higher ‘carbon emissions’ causing Global Warming.
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