Reality Check: The Earth is Not ‘Drying Out,’ Associated Press – AP does NOT understand the difference ‘between observed versus modelled climate conditions’
By Marc Morano
December 17, 2024
By Linnea Lueken
The Associated Press (AP) claims in a recent article, “Earth’s lands are drying out. Nations are trying to address it in talks this week,” that a substantial percentage of the land on earth is drying out due to human-cased climate change. This is false. Not only does data contradict this claim, but the AP leaves out details from the report which make the relationship between aridity and the modest warming of the past century much less certain.
The study, or report, rather, that the AP based their article on is the recent United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) report. It should not surprise anyone that the UNCCD is hyping alleged desertification, and indeed the AP makes it known that the UN’s interest is not in reporting on conditions around the world, but in securing tens of billions of dollars to “address” the effects of drought in 80 countries.
The AP writes that “[m]uch of Earth’s lands are drying out and damaging the ability of plant and animal life to survive, according to a United Nations report released Monday at talks where countries are working to address the problem.” They continue, “once-fertile lands turning into deserts because of hotter temperatures from human-caused climate change, lack of water and deforestation.” Among the risks identified by AP are food insecurity due to low yields and livestock, and migration that is often wrongly called a climate refugee crisis. Climate Realism has previously discussed why those alleged risks are not what they appear, in that food production is skyrocketing even in regions that are supposedly suffering this supposed desertification, and there actually have not been climate refugees but rather economic, political unrest, and weather-disaster related migration.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2024/12/17/reality-check-the-earth-is-not-drying-out-associated-press-ap-does-not-understand-the-difference-between-observed-versus-modelled-climate-conditions/
