Analysis: Population & Food Supply: ‘When there is little, or none, people cannot afford the calories to breed. When there is enough, they can and do. When there is too much…[food] they can’t be bothered to breed’
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/p/a-reason-the-birthrate-is-so-low A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low: Food By William M Briggs In the 1970s the fear—there is always fear, much of it imaginary or exaggerated—was mass starvation. There were soon, they said, to be too many people, which would lead to disastrous pressure on the food supply, and we’d run out. Some said […]
Wrong, The Guardian, There Is No Evidence Climate Change Is Harming Bananas
Wrong, The Guardian, There Is No Evidence Climate Change Is Harming Bananas By H. Sterling Burnett The Guardian was among a number of mainstream media outlets to carry a story claiming climate change is threatening wipe out banana production. No data supports this claim, rather it is based on speculation about future climate conditions 55 years […]
The Associated Press Is Wrong, Coffee Prices Are Not Rising Due to Climate Change
The Associated Press Is Wrong, Coffee Prices Are Not Rising Due to Climate Change By Linnea Lueken The Associated Press (AP) claims in a post “Climate change is making coffee more expensive. Tariffs likely will too,” that climate change, in the form of severe weather like drought, is making coffee more expensive by suppressing yields. […]
Watch: UNearthing the CO2 Pipeline documentary: ‘Film sheds light on the disturbing reality facing Midwest farmers’ – ‘Family-owned land is being forcibly taken by corporations to make way for dangerous, unregulated CO2 pipelines’
https://mailchi.mp/jbs.org/exclusive-live-watch-party-live-premiere-unearthing-the-co2-pipeline-documentary The film sheds light on the disturbing reality facing farmers across the Midwest, where their family-owned land is being forcibly taken by corporations to make way for dangerous, unregulated CO2 pipelines. Imagine waking up to see your land, passed down through generations, destroyed by strangers drilling test wells without your consent. This documentary uncovers […]
Rolling Stone mag laments: ‘Trump Wants to Convince the World That Climate Change Is a Good Thing’ – He’s ‘ready to argue that climate change would benefit humans’
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-convince-world-climate-change-good-1235306675/ By Thor Benson Trump is aiming to use the power of the federal government to reframe climate change as something that will benefit humanity. Trump is reportedly intent on rewriting an Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, which found greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare, in order to downplay the negative effects of […]
Controversial UK land use proposals ‘flying under the radar’ for farmers – ‘9% of England’s farmland will need to be taken out of production for climate goals’ according to The Land Use Framework
https://www.farminguk.com/news/controversial-land-use-proposals-flying-under-the-radar-for-farmers_66336.html The Land Use Framework, which states that 9% of England’s farmland will need to be taken out of production for climate goals, is “flying under the radar” for many farmers. This is according to Laura Greenman, partner at HCR Law, who is urging farming businesses to have their say on the plans as the […]
Media, Please Grow Up – Stop blaming ‘early peak bloom of the cherry blossom trees’ in DC on ‘global warming’
Media, Please Grow Up By I & I Editorial Board When did high school newspaper editors take over Western media? Decades ago, of course, and we’re unhappy to report that it seems they’re never going to grow up. The latest evidence? The early peak bloom of the cherry blossom trees along Washington’s Tidal Basin is […]
WaPo: ‘Growing weed takes more energy than mining bitcoin’ – Uses 1% of all American energy, ‘warms the planet about as much as 10 million cars’
WaPo: Together, legal and illegal cannabis growers use about 1% of all American energy. That’s more than cryptocurrency mining or all other crops combined, according to a paper Mills published in February, an update to his original 2012 study.
The industry’s greenhouse pollution warms the planet about as much as 10 million cars do. For a daily user who buys cannabis grown indoors, their pot’s carbon footprint is nearly half the carbon footprint of their entire home, according to Evan Mills, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Lomborg: ‘Hunger keeps declining, even with climate change’ – ‘Over the past century, hunger has declined dramatically’
Over the past century, hunger has declined dramatically. In 1928, the League of Nations estimated that more than two-thirds of humanity lived in a constant state of hunger. By 1970, malnutrition afflicted just one-quarter of all people. Since 2008, fewer than one in ten people have been chronically hungry, although both COVID and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have increased the percentage from a low of just over seven per cent in 2017 to nine per cent in 2023.
Hunger is way down because incomes have risen dramatically and humanity has become much better at producing food. We have more than quintupled cereal production since 1926, and more than halved global food prices. At the same time, extreme poverty has dropped sharply, allowing parents to buy their children more and better food.
Flashback 1989: Prominent environmentalist predicted world was on the brink of an ‘environmental Pearl Harbor — a global food shortage that could starve millions’ – Reality Check: FAIL
36 years ago today, Lester Brown's now-defunct @Worldwatch Institute predicted the world was on the brink of an "environmental Pearl Harbor — a global food shortage that could starve millions." Reality: Since 1990, global food production has doubled (on less land!) and global… pic.twitter.com/ZN4fRMZPkL — Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) March 22, 2025