By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Dennis Ambler

 

 

Today’s scare story is about bananas:

 

http://www.climateaction.org/news/climate-change-could-cause-significant-decline-in-banana-production

 

A case of deja vu maybe? According to the “experts”, bananas should be a thing of the past by now:

2008

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000700008

Worldwide geographical distribution of Black Sigatoka for banana: predictions based on climate change models

2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8225588.stm

Banana diseases hit African crops

2010

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82177558.pdf

Ecological zoning of soybean rust, coffee rust and banana black sigatoka based on Brazilian climate changes

2011

https://ccafs.cgiar.org/blog/bananas-will-face-climate-stress#.XXDcRXt7ns0

2012

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267153187_Climate_Change_Impacts_on_Banana_Production_in_the_Davao_Region_of_the_Philippines

2013

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/12/18/climate-craziness-of-the-week-yes-we-have-no-bananas-thanks-to-climate-change/

We hear that there is looming banana crisis in Costa Rica—the world’s 2^nd leading exporter of the fruit—as this year’s crop is being threatened by an infestation of mealybugs, scale insects, and fungal infection. Petulance, plagues, disease? It must be climate change, of course!

2014

https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/Media-Centre/Blog/2014/April/The-reality-behind-bananageddon

This week scientists will warn that the world’s banana crop is facing disaster.

2015

https://www.bioversityinternational.org/news/detail/bananas-and-climate-change-what-is-going-to-happen-to-one-of-the-worlds-favourite-fruits/

Farmers who grow banana as a secondary crop, may abandon banana when climate change makes coffee cultivation less viable.

2016– Suitability Analysis and Projected Climate Change Impact on Banana and Coffee Production Zones in Nepal

2017

https://www.popsci.com/worlds-bananas-under-attack-disease/

If temperatures rise, bananas should still thrive. But as extreme events like storms and droughts become more intense, individual plantations will likely get clobbered, Staver says. And warmer temperatures could encourage some of the pathogens that infect bananas to grow more aggressively, Tripathi explains, so disease might spread faster.

2018

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a43306/bananas-extinct-fungal-disease/

New Study Confirms That Bananas Are Going Extinct

 

 

 As ever, the facts tell a totally different story:

 http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare

 

But who needs facts?

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September 7, 2019 at 06:15AM