Fake news, CNN and the United Nations, did not damage the grain production of Latin America-Watt?

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From H. Sterling Burnett

A recent story of CNN states that climate change has led to the latest interruption of the entire Caribbean and South American grain production. This is wrong. Although the output of farms in Latin America and other places is different every year, and the weather in 2023 does bring hardships to some farmers in some countries, the overall crop production of the region has recorded records since 1990. Despite the warming up humblely, the supply of major crops has caused hunger to reduce hunger. Due to the continued decline in production and there is no long -term trend, it is wrong to claim that climate change damage the grain production in Latin America.

The story of the United Nations CNN (CNN) “The climate change is destroying the grain system in Latin America,” the United Nations reports that the recent report of the United Nations is “Latin America and the Caribbean food security and nutrition in 2024 Overview, declared:

According to a report from the new United Nations, climate change has exacerbated the hunger and unsafe food of Latin America and Caribbean.

The report said that multiple international food programs (WFP) in the region said that extreme weather pushed up the price of crops in many countries in the region.

First of all, the extreme weather that affects the price of crops in 2023 or other year is not uncommon. May I ask any farmer. In Latin America or elsewhere, extreme weather is not uncommon. Every year, extreme weather comes at some time. When it does this, it may hinder planting, raising, harvesting and/. As my colleague's repeated award -winning meteorologist Anthony Watts, I have discussed In climatic realism For example, before, here, here and here many times, the World Meteorological Organization is obviously that the weather is not a climate. Only long -term weather trends can represent climate changes, and in the Caribbean or South America, there is no continuous, many years or even years.

Although there is no evidence that climate change has affected the Latin American agriculture in 2023, Elniño is a natural large -scale marine change, which can almost indeed drive many severe weather incidents in the entire region. The El Nino phenomenon can lead to the transfer of the weather mode. For example, the amount of rainfall in some areas has too much rainfall, leading to the flood of floods, and less in other regions, leading to drought. It can also affect the formation of hurricanes, their strength and where they may attack, and contribute to the favorable or unfavorable conditions for wildfires. There is no evidence that climate change is affecting the changes in El Nino/Lamina.

As CNN asserted that the most powerful evidence refuted that climate change was “destroying the grain system in Latin America” ​​and directly from the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which compiled data about food production. Data from the Food Organization shows that between 1990 and 2025, it is the most important crop grown in the Caribbean. Blocks and roots (potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, sweets, yam, cassava (cassava), carrots, beats, etc.) repeatedly set production records during this period.

• Grain production in Central America has increased by about 44 %, the production of Caribbean grains has increased by 18 %, and grain production in South America has increased by 275 %.
• The production of blocks and roots in Central America increased by about 91 % in Central America, and the production of the entire Caribbean region increased by 52 %, an increase of 6 % in South America. (See the figure below)

The fact is the fact that although the US cable TV news network and the United Nations may try to turn the one -year grain damage of certain farmers in certain countries to evidence of the climate crisis in the region, the data tells a different story. In continuous moderate warming, some countries/regions have declined in some years, and transportation may be difficult due to storms. Generally speaking, grain production in Latin America is increasing. Farmers and agricultural areas in the region perform well. No evidence, no evidence to indicate that climate change is destroying food supply or causing hunger or malnutrition in Latin America.

H. Sterling Burnett

H. Sterling Burnett is the director of the Arthur B. Robinson Climate and Environmental Policy Center, and it is also an enforcement editor of environmental and climatic news. In addition to instructing the ARTHUR B. Robinson Center of the Heartland Institute Climate and Environmental Policy Center, Bernite also puts environmental and climatic news together. He is the editor of Heartland's “Climate Change” every week. The host of the newspaper.

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