More Journal Junk Science in New Global Wheat Yield Paper
The relentless flow of ‘peer-reviewed’ climate alarmism knows no bounds, as witnessed in this latest mainstream academic journals spin:
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. source: www.carbonbrief.org
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.
Maybe they might also like to explain how much lower wheat yields might now be without the benefits provided by fossil fuels, including increased mechanisation, transportation and refrigeration.
Carbon Brief attempt to play the climate scare card, saying:
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
There are always bad harvests somewhere in the world. But according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, global wheat production will be the second highest on record, even better than last year’s near record total.
We must always bear in mind that Carbon Brief receives more than a million pounds in funding a year from the notorious ECF, the organisation set up to channel billions from far-left US foundations to European bodies like Carbon Brief in order to spread climate misinformation.
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