A TIME Magazine article ascribes the potential for a major food crisis to two sources: the war in Ukraine and climate change. Concerning the latter claim, TIME is simply wrong.
While the war in Ukraine and sanctions on Russian exports have had an impact on food prices, there is no evidence that a warming climate has or will harm food production worldwide. [bold, links added]
The TIME piece, titled “The Food Crisis Can’t Handle Ukraine War and Climate Change,” says the current high grocery prices are merely a sample of an even worse crisis to come.
“As temperatures rise due to increasing greenhouse-gas emissions, so too will the price of food,” says TIME.
The article also asserts that the past century’s warming was bad for food production and another degree or two of warming would be catastrophic.
Data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) refutes TIME’s unsourced assertion climate change has hampered food production.
In fact, as discussed in more than 120 Climate Realism articles, FAO data consistently shows crop production has dramatically increased during the recent period of modest warming.
Indeed, as described in Climate Realism here, here, and here, for example, crop production and yields have repeatedly set records both in individual countries and globally over the past three decades of warming.
As shown in the figure below, this is especially true for the major cereal crops like wheat, corn, and rice, which are the backbone of the global food supply.
Although the author of the TIME article quotes FAO representatives, she fails to follow the data.
Had she done so, her research would have demonstrated that, despite occasional damaging events like infestations, weather disasters, and war, food production is at record highs across the board.
Also, as agronomy and botany explain, with the spread of modern agricultural technologies to less developed countries, bioengineered crops, carbon dioxide, and longer growing seasons, the best bet is that food production will continue to increase and hunger decline amid continued modest warming.
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The Ukrainian war will undoubtedly impact the world wide supply of food. Both Russia and the Ukraine have been major exporters of both fertilizer and grain. The climate change issue will also have an adverse impact if you consider the impact of action on climate change. Due to its self imposed energy crisis many fertilizers plants have had to shut down in Europe. TIME Magazine has followed a pattern all too typical among climate campaigners. They take one of their predictions, and report as if their prediction is happening without checking the facts. One fact that is clear is the fertilization impact of increased carbon dioxide has generated more plant growth including crops.
Time just like Newsweek,People,Rolling Stone USA Today Etc prints leftists propaganda supports Gun Control and gets kids hooked onto their leftists rag by producing a issue for kids Time for Kids just another liberal rag to add to our Boycott list
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