Wrong, TIME Magazine, Climate Change Isn’t Dooming Your Bananas
By
Heartland Institute
August 27, 2025
By Anthony Watts and H. Sterling Burnett
A recent article in TIME Magazine, “Climate Change is Coming for Your Bananas,” claims that a warming planet is threatening global banana production, portending shortages and higher prices. This is false. Data and the history of banana cultivation all tell a different story, with yields and production numbers from the regions highlighted in the story setting new record highs in recent years.
TIME dramatically blames climate change for banana yield loss and diseases:
But in a world that is getting warmer and more chaotic, climate change is already threatening the future of bananas, the world’s most popular fruit. Extreme weather events, shifting rainfall patterns, and rising temperatures are causing yields to fall and diseases to spread in banana-growing regions from Central America to Africa to Southeast Asia.
This is not the first time Climate Realism has had to debunk a story by TIME claiming that climate change was causing crop declines.
https://climaterealism.com/2025/08/wrong-time-magazine-climate-change-isnt-dooming-your-bananas/
