The Green War on Farmers Never Ends – There is no ‘nitrogen crisis’
https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/the-green-war-on-farmers-never-ends Ideologues are undeterred by mounting evidence that there is no ‘nitrogen crisis’ BY TILAK DOSHI A post on X on Tuesday by Dutch commentator Armand van Westen that has been circulating revisits the nitrogen debate in Dutch agriculture. Responding to a video by physicist and science journalist Arnout Jaspers — author of De Stikstoffuik (The Nitrogen Trap), the 2023 book […]
Scientists Admit CO2 Boosted Rice Production — The climate story the media keep missing – Not a climate crisis, it is a success story
Rice, CO₂, and the Climate Story the Media Keep Missing ByAnthony Watts This Phys.org article “Global rice production has nearly doubled over 50 years despite climate change” reports good news that is couched in incredulity. The authors are correct to highlight this remarkable success story and the data show that humanity has become dramatically better […]
MATT RIDLEY: Net Zero Can Never Be Worth it: ‘With CO2 greening the planet, any possible harms are outweighed by the benefits of more trees & crops’
https://www.climateskeptic.org/p/net-zero-can-never-be-worth-it By MATT RIDLEY Excerpt: According to the BBC, climate change has become more alarming during the 21st century. What they once called global warming they now call global heating; what they once called climate change they now call the climate crisis. If it is a crisis, then official estimates of the damage that climate […]
Since 1980s, the Sahara Desert has shrunk by roughly 8% – 50% of Earth’s vegetated land has become significantly greener due to rising atmospheric CO2.
Since the 1980s, the Sahara has shrunk by roughly 8%. Satellite data show widespread greening, a pattern that is playing out across the planet. Around 50% of Earth's vegetated land has become significantly greener, an area roughly three times the size of the United States. The… pic.twitter.com/rJYLuvQTSs — Electroverse (@Electroversenet) June 3, 2026
First Farmer Protests Against Fuel Prices Break Out in France
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/05/12/first-farmer-protests-against-fuel-prices-break-out-in-france/ By KURT ZINDULKA In what may prove to be the first shot across the bow for broader unrest in the months to come, French farmers once again took to their tractors in Lyon on Monday to protest the rising cost of fuel in the country. Dozens of farmers took to the A7 motorway to […]
Geologist: Climate pseudoscience debunked: Livestock methane fears are baseless
Climate pseudoscience debunked: Livestock methane fears are baseless By Gregory Wrightstone Policymakers are demanding that farmers scale back meat production, reengineer agricultural systems, and burden consumers with higher grocery bills to prevent a fabricated climate catastrophe. This is fearmongering based on false claims that methane emitted as a byproduct of livestock digestion contributes significantly to allegedly […]
Alex Esptein: Stop corn + oil lobbyists from permanently expanding the ethanol mandate
https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/stop-corn-oil-lobbyists-from-permanently?r=4i9cy&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true By ALEX EPSTEIN Excerpt: The “Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act” expands the ethanol mandate by 1) loosening air quality rules and 2) imposing the mandate on small refineries. This will raise fuel costs. The corn lobby, joined by many oil lobbyists, is pushing a bill to expand the ethanol mandate by 1) […]
No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy
No, Washington Post, ‘Carbon Pollution’ Isn’t Making Food Less Healthy By Anthony Watts The Washington Post (WaPo) claims in “The invisible force making food less nutritious” that rising carbon dioxide pollution is steadily degrading the nutritional quality of crops, putting billions at risk of hidden hunger. This is false. The article amplifies small projected changes in the […]
Quit Fearmongering About Wine, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Isn’t Coming for Cabernet
Quit Fearmongering, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Isn’t Coming for Cabernet By H. Sterling Burnett The San Francisco Chronicle posted an article claiming that climate change is harming Cabernet production, specifically in California. This is false. The climate hasn’t appreciably changed for the worse in California amid modest warming. Wildfires are not outside of their historical norm […]
Wash Post claims: ‘Carbon pollution is making food less nutritious’ – ‘Nearly every plant that humans eat is harmed by rising CO2 levels’ – Rising CO2 levels ‘will cause an epidemic of hidden hunger’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2026/carbon-pollution-diluting-key-nutrients-food/ By Naema Ahmed and Sarah Kaplan April 30, 2026 Chickpeas and rice are not the only foods steadily growing less nutritious. Many of humanity’s most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago. The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbon dioxide pollution. Surging […]