Jurist Legal News is doing its best Michael Avenatti impression, prosecuting false claims that climate change is causing hunger and malnutrition.
In a May 14 article, “The Link Between Climate Change and Human Health,” Indian law students Sakshi Agarwal and Aniket Sachan quote speculative World Health Organization (WHO) predictions as proof that climate change is causing starvation and malnutrition.
That is the same WHO, by the way, that reassured us that Chinese officials found no evidence of human-to-human transmission of COVID-19, that wearing face masks makes you more likely to acquire COVID-19, and praised massive government efforts to “socialize the economy.”
“The World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2018 said that climate change will cause around 250,000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050 due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat exhaustion,” the Jurist Legal News article reported.
Of course, predictions are not proof or even evidence. They are merely predictions. Let’s take a look at what scientific evidence shows.
History shows colder periods of time are linked to famine and malnutrition as crops fail, as during the little ice age. By contrast, hunger and malnutrition both decline sharply during relatively warm periods.
Indeed, food production, rather than declining as the climate has modestly warmed, has increased dramatically in recent decades.
This is thoroughly documented in Climate at a Glance: Crop Production, as well as in a video-archived panel discussion alongside the United Nations Civil Society Conference in August 2019.
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels, shows how modern agriculture, built upon and entirely dependent upon fossil fuels, is allowing farmers to produce more food than ever on less and less land.
In addition, as detailed by CO2Science.org, the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere over the past century, along with modest warming, has resulted in crop yields setting records nearly every year.
The two factors combined have resulted in the largest decline in hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and starvation in human history.
Forty-four percent of the world’s population lived in absolute poverty in 1981 – 40 years of global warming ago. Since then, the share of people living in such poverty fell below 10 percent in 2015.
And although 700 million people worldwide still suffer from persistent hunger, the United Nations reports the number of hungry people has declined by two billion since 1990 – 30 years of global warming ago.
Hunger and malnutrition, like a changing climate, have always been with us. The evidence, however, shows the only climate change consistently linked to increases in hunger, malnutrition, and premature mortality is a cooling climate.
Read more at Climate Realism
Apparently these people never look at the “science” they keep invoking all the time.
Time to dismiss all climate based lawsuits and make the plantiffs who filed them pay the price
The WHO used to be a world health organization but that was before it became an agency of the UN, the organization founded after WW2 to keep the peace that has since morphed into global environmentalism, as in ozone depletion and climate change. The WHO we see today is best understood in this context.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/18/the-eco-crisis-ambition-of-the-un/
Will the Climate Alarmists use this in some Guilt Trip telling us that because were not abiding by the Paris Accord all t hose people will Starve noting t hat many Eco-Freaks want humans to go the way of the DODO i would like t see the Eco-Freaks get stranded somewhere far far away
There is a pretty strong link between green policies and limited access to energy.
And a pretty strong link between poverty and access to energy.
And a pretty strong link between poverty and hunger, disease, shortened life expectancy.
Therefore, Green Policies = Death.