Carbon Brief Claims Increasing World Hunger – As Food Production Sets Records
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
January 19, 20210
Among the top Google News search results today for the term “climate change†today is a story on the climate activist website, Carbon Brief, titled “Climate change could have a ‘profound’ negative impact on child malnourishment.†The article claims climate change is likely to cause childhood nutrition, to an even greater extent than socioeconomic factors. In reality, climate change is benefiting crop production and making nutritious foods more generally available. In addition, history shows widespread hunger, malnutrition, and starvation are much more common during colder epochs of time than in warmer periods.
Carbon Brief references a study published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL), in which the authors calculate the “diet diversity†of children in 19 low- and middle-income countries. The authors correlate diet diversity with nutrition, arguing the greater diversity of diet, the better a child’s nutrition. They then correlate diet diversity with various factors including year-to-year weather changes, climate conditions, clean water availability, education, wealth, etc.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/01/carbon-brief-claims-increasing-world-hunger-as-food-production-sets-records/
