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WRITTEN BY LINNEA LUEKEN ON MAY 3, 2022. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

TIME Mag Pushes Phony Climate Connection To Potential Food Crisis

wheat harvestA 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.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/time-mag-pushes-phony-climate-connection-to-potential-food-crisis/

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Re: TIME Mag Pushes Phony Climate Connection To Potential Food Crisis
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2022, 03:38:42 pm »
The biggest crisis is on the way, in the pipeline, so to speak.

Draconian measures against the oil and gas industry will lead to fertilizer shortages, as will problems in the delivery of existing fertilizer stocks (supply chain problems). These (the war on Oil & Gas, and supply chain disruptions) are the hallmark of the current Administration in Washington, D.C., and are primarily created by policy.

With the former will come (already has) increased prices on anything and everything that uses "fossil" fuels in its creation and transportation, from beanie wienies to toilet paper to condoms. (yes, it hits the consumer coming and going), because the costs of production and transportation have been artificially raised.

In the farm sector, the cost of tillage and harvesting and transport of crops are up. Spare parts costs, similarly, have increased, and fertilizer is harder to get than in previous years. That translates into fewer acres being cultivated, or lower crop yields, which means higher prices.

The climate most affecting food supplies is political, not the planet, and we're not even seeing the worst of this yet.
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