NPR Claims Almond-Growing Crisis – After Three Straight Years of Record Crops
By
James Taylor -
August 18, 2021 0
The National Public Radio (NPR) website published an article yesterday claiming global warming is causing an almond production crisis in California, which is the world’s leading almond producer. In reality, California almond production set a new record in 2018, then broke that record in 2019, then broke that record again in 2020. The only almond crisis is a crisis in journalistic ethics and standards while promoting a fictitious almond crisis.
The NPR article, “Climate Change In California Is Threatening The World’s Top Almond Producer,” claims global warming is worsening weather conditions in California and making it much more difficult to grow almonds. However, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports California has set new records for almond production three years in a row. Moreover, even NPR admits California farmers are now growing eight times as many almonds each year as was the case just 25 years ago.
As Climate Realism reported last August, California almond production is so bountiful that farmers complain that an over-supply of almonds is lowering prices too much:
https://climaterealism.com/2021/08/npr-claims-almond-growing-crisis-after-three-straight-years-of-record-crops/
