At the top of search results today for “climate change,” Google News is promoting an article claiming climate change is causing world hunger.
However, data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) clearly show global crop production and food stocks have increased significantly and steadily during recent years and decades as the Earth modestly warms.
Climate change is helping end world hunger, not making world hunger worse.
The Google-promoted article, published by InkStick Media, is titled “Climate Change Is Hampering Our Ability to Combat World Hunger.”
The article claims there has been an increase in world hunger since 2014, the article blames this human-caused climate change.
The author quotes Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson saying the world needs to “make peace with nature.” Unless we do so, the author warns, “Today, without a global effort we will certainly lose the battle for survival.”
Even if it were true that there has an increase in world hunger since 2014, the blame would be on political instability and corrupt centralized governments in Third World countries, not crop production or climate change.
The FAO’s recent “Cereal Supply and Demand Brief” clearly shows both cereal crop production and cereal stocks have steadily increased since 2014, and have increased dramatically since 2010 (See the figure below).
Cereal grains include the Big Three food staples of corn, wheat, and rice, as well as some similar crops. Corn (maize), rice, and wheat by comprising 66 percent of global human food consumption.
Also, just 15 crops provide 90 percent of humanity’s food energy intake. Cereal grains make up nine of those 15 crops. As shown above, the FAO reports cereal grain production set new records seven of the past 10 years.
Looking ahead, the online agriculture news service World-Grain.com recently published a story, “IGC projects record output for corn, wheat, and soybeans,” highlighting the International Grains Council’s findings that it expects global yields of corn, rice, soybeans, and wheat to set new records again in 2020, despite the pandemic.
Global warming lengthens growing seasons, reduces frost events, and makes more land suitable for crop production.
Also, carbon dioxide is an aerial fertilizer for plant life. These factors combined have resulted in the largest decline in hunger, malnutrition, and starvation in human history.
Although 700 million people worldwide still suffer from persistent hunger, the United Nations reports the number of hungry people has declined by two billion people since 1990.
To the extent hunger has increased some over the past few years, poor infrastructure, political corruption, internal conflicts, and war – not long-term human-caused climate change – is to blame.
As much as the media and climate alarmists may try to equate climate change with crop failures and hunger, the fact is global crop yields set new records virtually every year in response to beneficial ongoing warming.
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Excellent and accurate article! Just feast your eyes on that incredibly lush, vital, and productive corn! Not only has world hunger and poverty dramatically decreased since music and youth’s beautiful cry of “We are the World” thirty-five years ago. We have done it while global population has been increasing by nearly three times! The CO2 “fertilization effect” is not only true, it is an understatement. Without CO2 all life dies. And CO2 has been naturally declining from up to 7000ppm for the entire near 600 million years of multicellular evolution to today’s dangerously LOW LEVELS. That’s declining from nearly twenty times the natural starvation levels of today. MORE CO2 AND MORE WARMTH ARE ALWAYS MORE FRIENDLY TO BOTH THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO HUMANITY. The fossil fuel generated minuscule additions to today’s natural level lows have been a Godsend to life on earth. You cannot have life on earth without CO2. Because CO2 is the basic ingredient of the metabolic pathway that is the basis of life on earth – photosynthesis. It is the source of the carbon based lifeforms we all are. And CO2 has been naturally declining for the entire 600 million year evolution CO2 along with water, plus sunlight, are the basic ingredients of life on earth (through photosynthesis). EVERY carbon element that makes up our carbon-based bodies comes from CO2. Carbon forms the backbone of every protein, fat, and DNA molecule that make up life. ALL of which comes from CO2! Photosynthesis is also quite literally the source of the energy that powers life on earth. It does it by metabolically transforming CO2 and water into sugar, life’s first stage energy storage molecule. This metabolic chemical pathway can only run by adding energy to the input side of photosynthesis using chlorophyll (the “green” catalyst in the environment”. This added energy comes from sunlight. Photosynthesis is also life’s metabolic pathway that built and replenishes the 20% free oxygen necessary for animal life on earth to exist. Animals (including us) only live by either eating plants, eating animals that eat plants or eating animals that eat animals. This is ecology, the science of the web of life on earth. Ecology is part of biology, the basic science of life. Barry Bateman B.Sc. Advanced (biology)