U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris created diplomatic tension yesterday during a trip to Guatemala by claiming global warming is breaking up Guatemalan families and causing the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border, earning herself a stern rebuke from Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei.
Fox News reported today that “Vice President Kamala Harris’ staff on Sunday insisted that the ‘main drivers’ of the migrant surge to the southern border are climate and the economy — as Harris arrived in Guatemala.”
President Giammattei was not amused. According to Fox News:
But, in an interview aired Sunday, Giammattei said he and Harris ‘are not on the same side of the coin’ on the issue, and blamed what he saw as a more welcoming message to migrants by the new administration for the surge.
“The message changed too: ‘We’re going to reunite families, we’re going to reunite children,’” he told CBS News. “The very next day, the coyotes were here organizing groups of children to take them to the United States.”
“We asked the United States government to send more of a clear message to prevent more people from leaving,” he said.
Harris and her fellow climate alarmists claim global warming is destroying crop production in Guatemala and elsewhere, forcing farmers to flee to the United States to feed themselves and their families.
Scientific data, however, clearly debunk Harris’ scapegoating of global warming for the recent migrant surge.
Presenting objective crop data compiled by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the website TheGlobalEconomy.com reports Guatemala farmers are enjoying a significant long-term increase in crop yields per acre and overall crop production.
Similarly, the FAO predicts global cereal production – comprising most of the world’s food production and consumption – will set a record this year for the third consecutive year.
As the objective data prove, Guatemala President Alejandro Giammattei is correct to rebuke Kamala Harris for flippantly blaming climate change for the recent border surge rather than blaming more tangible issues, including a change in our U.S. immigration and border security policies under the Biden administration.
To any extent climate change and crop production impact migration from Central America to the U.S. southern border, the data show that modest recent climate change is reducing, rather than amplifying, the reasons for migration and the U.S. southern border surge.
Read more at Climate Realism
About the climate refugees from Guatemala
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/07/28/climate-migrants/
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/07/28/climate-migrants/
Not just guatemala. This racist scheme of using the poor to sell the climate agenda is widespread.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/03/19/climate-change-racism/
And it goes all the way up to the Pope
https://tambonthongchai.com/2021/04/03/divine-climate-activism/
It seems absolutely everything that happens is due to climate change, global warming, whatever. For the warmists this is a sound policy, they can blame everything on AGW, so push their agenda. Which usually has little or nothing to do with climate. Kamala Harris and her team might try looking at history and see that people migrate for countless reasons, and that includes going to a warmer or cooler place. or simply to get out of countries which are hellish. Did Biden’s forefathers leave Ireland because of climate and because it gets Atlantic weather and a lot of rain?
As have said before, it is very typical of liberals to create a problem and then blame it on something else to further a political objective. Biden made the boarder problem worse by implying more people would be let in. Now he blames climate change where all the data shows that can not be the cause. Congratulations to President Giammattei for calling them out on this issue.
People who confront reality daily, like President Giammattei, usually have little patience for feckless fantasies.
The millions of uninformed, the uneducated, pseudo scientists and climate activists are unable to accept CO2 as a fertilizer extraordinaire think warmth and heat will destroy the planet. Instead it causes the planet to bloom. If and when the next ice age befalls the planet there will be disease, famines and war. Cold kills crops, heat w/ moisture increases agricultural output.
Yes, drought can occur, crops die, humans relocate, and it is a time of strife. However it is minimal to the affects of a full blown ice age.
Its about time someone took Harris and the rest of the Global Warming/Climate Change advocates to task for their fake crisis Harris is one who needs good scolding.Said the Quetzal to the Turkey SHAME ON YOU