Posted on 03/28/2024 5:43:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A new report tells us that man-made global warming is driving up prices. Please tell us this is parody. It’s far too risible not to be.
Oh, but no. We’ve been assured that it’s a serious paper. “Global warming and heat extremes to enhance inflationary pressures,” was published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Communications: Earth and Environment. Axios tells us the study “incorporated more than 27,000 observations of monthly price indices across 121 countries in the developed and developing worlds during the 1996 to 2021 period, along with high-resolution weather observations.”
From that, the authors were able to determine that “human-caused climate change” is likely to worsen inflation. But it seems as if they had one eye closed as they reached that conclusion. Had they had both open throughout, they’d have to agree with H. Sterling Burnett, director of climate and environmental policy at the Heartland Institute, who said “climate change has nothing to do with it. It doesn’t print money, nor create new programs and policies spending it.”
Our friends at the Committee To Unleash Prosperity noted that “what’s especially pathetic about this story is first you have a bunch of nitwit academics writing the study.” It’s a fair point. But we also wonder just who were the peers who reviewed it.
Scientist-activist James Hansen, who is more the latter than the former? Insufferable hypocrite John Kerry? Maybe King Charles III, who told us 56 months ago that we had only 18 months to “decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels“? Or maybe Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat who must wonder why Miami isn’t under water and wants to weaponize the global warming scare to change the entire economy.
We sure hope that sainted prophetess Greta Thunberg wasn’t asked to give her approval. But given how she’s been awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of climate hysterics, it would not be a surprise.
Despite the frightening rhetoric about a warmer Earth threatening price stability, the data actually show that since 1996, and going back even further, to 1960, worldwide rice, wheat and corn production have increased dramatically, because, as our friends at CTUP point out, “plants and vegetation grow more rapidly in warm weather.”
While the researchers tracked prices from 1996 to 2021, they seemed to have been fixated on 2022, a year in which “the summer heat extreme in Europe” served as “a prominent example” of how “combined heat and drought had wide-spread impacts on agricultural and economic activity.” They referenced it nearly two dozen times.
Others see it differently. Eric Worrall, a regular contributor to Watts Up With That?, says “citing 2022 in Europe as an example of climate disruption caused food inflation is absurd. The problems being experienced by Europe are because of EU incompetence, not climate change.”
Rising food prices in Europe are a problem, he says, because farmers there “are under attack by radical greens.” Worrall also cited European restrictions on fertilizer and chemical use, as well as the “insane attempts to cut the number of farmers, by coercing farmers to sign agreements to never farm again.” He even reminds us that “Dutch police shot live ammo at farmers protesting climate rules in 2022.” These policies and events are “probably not encouraging farmers to invest in upgrading their land.”
At this point, there is no weather event, war, famine, viral outbreak, terrorist attack, crime spree, bumpy flight, grumpy mood or dog fight that the climate cranks won’t blame on human emissions of greenhouse gases. It’s been obvious for years that they’ve become desperate. We hope this means that their racket is close to its expiration date.
The left is trying to deflect blame from themselves. They should never be allowed to steer a society.
Climate Change made my hair fall out......................
“Dutch police shot live ammo at farmers protesting climate rules in 2022.”
Did/could the farmers shoot back? Because I would expect them to shoot back.
Good article. Thanks for posting. Individuals in the Climate Change Collective will take your property and might kill you if you don’t comply with their demands.
War is the biggest climate polluter.
Maybe we should stop all the wars to save the planet?
basically anything bad that happens in the world is now blamed on either global warming or white people.
It’s nuts
I forgot to tighten my gas cap after a fill up and climate change made my check engine light come on.
These nuts are going to hell, a real climate change.
I guess “climate change” is making me find these pseudo-scientists to be absolute criminal nitwits.
Climate change is making things better.
More CO2 in atmosphere makes plants growing faster and using less water. Warmer weather is also rather desirable for agriculture.
But the remedies for climate change - like rising gas prices, EV’s, green energy sources and agriculture restrictions, those are contributing to inflation for sure.
Thanks to some global madness, we are trying to fix a good thing, spending huge money in futile attempts to change nature for worse!
yope.
I have noticed that during the first wave of California wildfires.
All the forest scientists predicted them, blaming forest mismanagement caused by the environs banning any tree cuttings, years of fire suppression and closing forest roads.
I remember articles showing grossly overgrown forests, full of dead wood, just waiting for the spark!
But when the fires started, Gov Newsom suddenly, from nowhere, blamed climate change, and the press and the greenies quickly followed the lead.
Makes sense... As summer approaches, temperatures go up, inflation is still going up so there is correlation in the mindset of climate cultist and liberals.
“Peer review” equals con artists and quacks reviewing work by other con artists and quacks.
What I think is interesting to watch(need more popcorn) is the current battle between the people/companies/states that want to build these huge off shore wind turbines and the people who say they KILL WHALES.
The wind mills that are building in Nantucket Sound and off the Atlantic coast of VA, NY, NJ are much taller/bigger than the turbines that have been built on land.
Cliamate change made my teeth fall out.
Damn sugar cane and chocolate grow like crazy in this heat!
Globull warming would mean a longer growing season. Food should be more plentiful and thereby cheaper...yes?
As long as there is money to be made — big money — and power to be seized — unaccountable power — scams (delusions, as you prefer) such as this don’t go away.
Since 1996, I’ve gained 28 lbs. If you tracked those pounds and compare them to the rate of inflation, I’m guessing they would run pretty close. So, by that logic my weight gain must be responsible for inflation.
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