NASA’s climate propaganda site, Climate.gov, features an article claiming climate change threatens potato production and, therefore, French fries.
The article, titled “Climate & French fries,” claims global warming is making temperatures too warm for ideal potato production, creating more drought that stifles potato production, threatening an increase in potato diseases, and threatening an increase in insect pests that reduce potato yields.
The NASA article is similar to other media articles that identify popular products – like coffee, wine, beer, chocolate, etc. – and then claim the products are being harmed by climate change.
Just like the other media articles and claimed negative impacts, objective data and scientific evidence destroy the NASA myth that climate change is harming potatoes and French fries.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) keeps detailed information on annual total potato production and yields per acre.
According to the USDA, the all-time record for U.S. potato yields per acre was set in 2019, breaking the record that had previously been set in 2018. The 2018 record had in turn surpassed the previous records, set in 2016 and 2017.
Do you see a pattern here? NASA bureaucrats publish an article claiming global warming is bad for potatoes and French fries, even though potato production sets new records virtually every year as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and global temperatures modestly rise.
Whether it is a French fry scare, a potato chip scare, or any other scare designed to raise alarm about climate change, the facts almost always tell a different, reassuring story than the alarmist hype.
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NASA needs to return to what it was created fr in the first place and not try and fake this stuff about our Potato Chips and French Fries
Believe me, farmers could bury New York city and Los Angeles in potatoes, if they paid a fair price for them. Why do protesting dairy farmers pour milk into creeks? Excess production kills profit.
Couple years ago I found an Ontario government website, telling children that climate change meant the end of pizza and snowy driveways. It’s all alarmist propaganda.
The standard liberal principle is if the truth doesn’t support their agenda, then lie.
Lies that find traction. Something is wrong with modern society. It’s vulnerable.
I would like the end of snowy driveways – that’s why I continue to drive to work everyday, and heat my home, or cool my home, and light my home, and drive my kid to hockey practice, and my other kid to figure skating – I’m thinking that if there was some way I could ensure the planet stays 1.5 degrees warmer than whatever the NASA wants it, I’m doing my part to keep me just a bit less cold in the winter.
“(T)hreatening an increase in insect pests that reduce potato yields.”
And back in 2019 we were told, “The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year… suggesting they could vanish within a century.”
So, insects are both spreading and becoming extinct…
I know insects are incredible creatures, but that seems a bit beyond them.