False, Inside Climate News, Climate Change Isn’t Causing Farm Disasters
By
H. Sterling Burnett
December 10, 2024
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reposted an article by Inside Climate News which asserts that American farmers have suffered from climate change over the past eight years and, as a result, have become less skeptical that the world is in the midst of a climate crisis. This is false. Facts show that weather disasters aren’t increasing amid climate change, nor has farm production declined. If farmers and the lobbying organizations appear less skeptical than they have been in the past that dangerous climate change is happening requiring government relief, it is likely due to the huge federal subsidies that have flowed to farms from the federal government in its futile effort to control the weather.
In the article, titled, “US farms are being battered by climate change. Trump wants to put a climate denier in charge of the USDA,” Georgina Gustin of Inside Climate News warns that a climate skeptic, Brooke Rollins, President-elect Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture (DOA), may reduce federal largesse for agricultural climate programs, money farmers have come to enjoy and expect.
Inside Climate News is decrying Rollins candidacy because she is a climate realist. Rollins has both a law degree and a degree in agricultural development, and served as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council during Trump’s first term, so she is well qualified to run the DOA. Rollins knows both the challenges facing farmers and the ins and outs of the regulations and laws governing agriculture policy. Rather than being an unknown, as Inside Climate News implies, Rollins views on climate change and climate policy are well known. She has previously spoken The Heartland Institute’s America First Energy Conference, and is on record as supporting withdrawing from the Paris Climate A
https://climaterealism.com/2024/12/false-inside-climate-news-climate-change-isnt-causing-farm-disasters/
