Global wheat yields would be ‘10%’ higher without climate change
June 6, 2025
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public
Today’s climate lie comes from Climate Brief:
Global yields of wheat are around 10% lower now than they would have been without the influence of climate change, according to a new study.
The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looks at data on climate change and growing conditions for wheat and other major crops around the world over the past 50 years.
It comes as heat and drought have this year been putting wheat supplies at risk in key grain-producing regions, including parts of Europe, China and Russia.
The study finds that increasingly hot and dry conditions negatively impacted yields of three of the five key crops examined.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-wheat-yields-would-be-10-higher-without-climate-change/Perhaps the con merchants who wrote this study might care to explain exactly at what point in the last 65 years this “climate change effect” began to click in. And why the actual trends show no sign of this so-called effect becoming progressively worse – something which the authors say is already happening:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/06/06/global-wheat-yields-would-be-10-higher-without-climate-change/
