Michael Bastasch11:51 am 09/22/2017
A United Nations report admits it’s “impossible” to link man-made global warming to a jump in world hunger statistics, but then goes ahead and does make that link anyway.
The new U.N. report estimated global warming helped increase the number of people around the world suffering from chronic hunger and undernourishment, which was mainly driven by violent conflicts in poor countries.
The U.N.’s mainline findings claim global warming compounded foot shortages and famine driven by economic slowdowns and violent conflict, while an accompanying Q&A document makes another stunning admission about global warming.
“Although it is impossible to establish a causal relation, the impact of climate change-related phenomena (such as the higher frequency of extreme events, be them floods or drought) cannot be ruled out as one of the causes for the reduced per capita availability of food in several countries,” the U.N. admitted.
Even so, the U.N. warned droughts and floods, “linked in part to El Niño phenomenon and climate-related shocks,” hurt food production, they can’t say for sure this is behind the increase in global hunger. The U.N. even admits global food production was high enough to feed everyone on the planet, despite weather shocks.
The U.N. still claimed global warming was a compounding factor behind the spike in hunger statistics.
“Conflict, especially when compounded by climate change, is therefore a key factor explaining the apparent reversal in the long-term declining trend in global hunger, thereby posing a major challenge to ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030,” the U.N. reported.
Many in the media pointed fingers at global warming.
The New York Times editorial board highlighted the study’s grim findings, reporting hunger was on the rise “because of scourges like global warming and civil conflicts that show little sign of abating.”
The newspaper claimed “rising civil strife and climate disruption in explaining the sudden downturn” in success for fighting global hunger. Undernourishment increased from 777 million to 815 million people from 2015 to 2016, the U.N. estimated.
“Compounding these problems globally are the disruptions of climate change — droughts and floods, as well as political crises and severe economic drops in nations reliant on commodity exports, the study found,” wrote The New York Time’s editorial board.
However, most malnourished people “live in countries affected by conflict,” the U.N. said.
“Over the past ten years, the number of violent conflicts around the world has increased significantly, in particular in countries already facing food insecurity, hitting rural communities the hardest and having a negative impact on food production and availability,” the U.N. notes.
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So the UN totally missed the simple fact that the monsoonal flow out of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea changed????
Instead of going northeast into Pakistan and northwestern India, it changed direction and went into the Arabian peninsula, flowed over Qatar, Yemen, the UAE, and all those other states, and even into Kuwait, which saw snow for the first time EVER. And the UNers missed that part?
And then that monsoonal flow continued westward and flowed over the Sahara into places like Morocco and Algeria, where it dropped a load of snow on the dunes of the Sahara last winter. (Yes, there are pictures.)
And the UNers missed all of that?
Maybe they could spend some time helping the people of Oman and Qatar with flooding issues. The soil there is so overloaded with water that they are now having hip-deep flooding. And the tropical storms that used to come once in a while are now coming regularly to that area.
And UNers have missed all of this in their scramble to be politically correct and blame a drought on humans.
Well, isn’t that just peachy???
Perhaps using 40% of the US corn crop to damage our internal combustion engines instead of feeding people is a bad idea.
See comment above concerning food impact. At the US 10 percent blendwall, ethanol does not damage auto engines designed for it. It is a problem for small engines like lawnmowers and chain saws because the blended gas is hygroscopic when left sitting in carburetors unused for long periods. Out in farm country, that is why gas stations often have one pump serving pure regular.
You may want to check with boat owners up north who fail to remove the ethanol from the engines prior to putting them away for the winter. Excessive moisture is the problem with ethanol On the other hand, hemp is much better as a bio fuel. It is easy to grow, needs no pesticides, has far less moisture and it is not really a food crop.
Hoarding is a human trait. Not a nice one, but a trait nonetheless. Even if one has evough to share, a goodly amount of humans will hoard more. Suffering is the condition of all species and to irradicate it is a fool’s errand. Yes, one can attempt to mitigate specific events, but to irradicate suffering simply by spreading money or goods about is pie in the sky thinking. One can hardly hold their breath long enough before the recipients begin the process of hoarding.
Hoarding can be minimized once people stop worrying about the reliability of the food delivery system.
In 1st world countries the government has to beg people to even have a week’s worth of food on hand every time a disaster seems imminent.
What one person calls hoarding others call conservation of resources, and others call storage, and others call none of your damned business. All a matter of perspective.
Never ever let facts get in the way of your (fake) narrative!
Mind listing the facts you speak of? With links to your sources?
I believe it IS possible to link a jump in world hunger statistics to socialist governments!
Oh, not just a possibility, it is the facts as they exist. People starve where socialism is in the ascendant.
El problema no es la falta de alimentos,el verdadero problema es la falta de dinero. El pobre no tiene dinero para comprar alimentos,hay que generar empleo,que trabaje,gane un buen sueldo y pueda vivir dignamente sin tener que mendigar.FIN A LA POBREZA Y EL HAMBRE EN EL MUNDO
Entonces necesitamos el capitalismo y la libertad de impresa en todo el mundo, y más energía de los combustibles fósiles.
The climate change we have been experiencing is caused by the sun and the oceans over which Mankind has no control. The real problem comes down to resources per person. The Earth’s surface area and resources is finite so the only way to improve the situation is to gradually reduce the number of persons so that the resources per person gradually increases.
Is there a spike in world hunger? Last year when I checked, world hunger was continuing along a downward trend. Has there been some new development since? Maybe the spike (if there is one) is a statistical anomaly due to war or political unrest….