As Climate Realism has repeatedly shown before, here, here, and here, for example, AFP seems wedded to reporting the narrative that humans are causing dangerous climate change, even when the data repeatedly debunks such assertions.…
Category: Agriculture
The Associated Press Is Wrong, Coffee Prices Are Not Rising Due to Climate Change
The AP ought to have looked at a wider view of crop production data in Brazil and Vietnam, which may have assuaged some of their concerns about the future of…
Wrong, The Hill, Climate Driven Corn Insurance Cost Projections Mislead the Public
It’s astonishing that The Hill would publish such an article based on shaky, unverified models without at least checking real-world data trends on agricultural productivity and extreme weather. For over…
The Independent Misleads About Rising Cocoa Prices, Government, Not Climate, is Responsible
Crop production will always have good and bad years in different parts of the world, especially in places with government meddling and mishandling of resources and price fixing which makes…
Get Your Facts Straight, PBS, Senegal’s Prospects Have Improved Amid Climate Change
PBS, like other mainstream media outlets, is like a dog with a bone, refusing to let go of the narrative that climate change is harming everyone, everywhere, even when the…
No Beef, Lamb, Milk and Cheese Within 25 Years Under Net Zero, Government-Funded Report Confirms
Achieving Net Zero in 25 years would need a “complete transformation” of the UK’s agricultural and food system that would in effect mean a diet devoid of beef, lamb and…
Star of Coconut Fish Curry Thrives in Modern Climate
Contrary to the media drumbeat of apocalypse, I found that fishes are highly resilient and facing no crisis from climatic variations. In its 2024 report on “The State of World…
False, Barron’s and Deutsche Welle, Climate Change Isn’t Endangering Mongolian Herding
Media outlets like Barron’s and DW should check the data and the historical context before asserting without proof that climate change is threatening Mongolian herders and the lifestyles and culture…
Trump’s Climate Policy Shift Could Save American Farmers from Disaster
Trump’s withdrawal from international climate initiatives, including the U.N.’s Paris Climate Accords, marked a win for American farmers and taxpayers. His decision ended U.S. participation in costly and unrealistic mandates…
The Independent is Wrong, Avocado Consumption Isn’t Causing Climate Change
All in all, The Independent’s and Titchmarsh’s concerns are not well founded, as even a cursory look at available avocado data show. UK residents can happily enjoy their guacamole and…
False, Forbes, Climate Change Is Not Threatening Food Security
The real threat to food security isn’t climate change, rather it is flawed reporting being used to encourage and provide cover for bad policies. Restrictive environmental regulations, misguided carbon reduction…
Wrong, Politico, Climate Change Does Not Threaten the EU’s Survival, But Climate Policy Does
It’s shameful that Politico and the German government are downplaying the harm that the unnecessary, unjustified, climate policies which they have supported have had on Europeans. Extreme weather is not…
Wrong, Earth.com, Cocoa Production Is Not ‘Under Extreme Climate Pressure’ It’s Improving
In the end, the Earth.com story was long on alarming speculation pushing the catastrophic climate change narrative, and short on detailed analysis. The author showed no evidence of reading the…
Food Firms Revolt Against Net Zero Over Australia’s Energy Crisis
Unfortunately for British industries enduring the world’s highest energy costs, Miliband is allowing no concessions to his tablets of stone that say we must be willing for all our carbon…
Fake News, CNN and UN, Climate Change Is Not Disrupting Latin America’s Food Production
A recent CNN story claims that climate change has caused recent disruptions in food production across the Caribbean and South America. This is false. Although in Latin America as elsewhere…
Your Cappuccino is Safe Despite Climate Fearmongering
I think it is safe to say that our coffee supply is secure for the foreseeable future. So, the next time you hear that the emissions of your internal combustion…
U.S. Water Woes – Southwest
Too Many People – Not Enough Water. This simple fact is widely known to all levels of government in the Southwest – there are commissions and committees and treaties and…
Genetic tweak to three key crops massively boosts their growth
The growth of maize, sugarcane and sorghum has been greatly boosted by modifying the plants to take advantage of higher carbon dioxide levels now found in the air.
‘Actually,’ MSNBC, Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick is Right, Climate Change Does Have Benefits
“But he also says climate change makes the planet greener by increasing plant growth, boosts agricultural productivity and likely reduces the number of temperature-related deaths annually. “It’s probably almost as…
Wrong, NBC News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Rising Coffee Prices, Production Is Increasing
NBC’s portrayal of climate change as a primary driver of rising coffee prices reflects a bias by the media outlet toward blaming nearly every bad thing that occurs on climate…
Dairy cows given synthetic additive in feed to hit net zero
Surely the safety of humans should be the number one consideration, not methane reduction?
No, Atlanta News First, Climate Change is Not Threatening the “Way of Life” of Georgia Farmers
A thorough analysis of regional climate data and agricultural outcomes in Georgia reveals that there is no evidence climate change is altering weather patterns in Georgia for the worse or…
‘Animal Protein Overconsumption’: UN Climate Confab Attendees Urge Countries to Implement Tax on Meat
TAPP Coalition raised the topic at COP29 this week, suggesting that countries should tax meat and subsidize vegetables while describing the U.S. and some Western nations as a “laggard” relative…
Right, Our World In Data, Climate Change Is Increasing Crop Yields, Concern About Future Decline Is Unwarranted
You can’t have high yields without CO2 and modern, fossil fuel intensive, agricultural infrastructure. That’s the overall lesson readers should take away from Ritchie’s Our World In Data series of…
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