UN CLAIMS CLIMATE CHANGE IS CAUSING WORLD HUNGER AS RECORD HARVESTS ARE ANNOUNCED

London, 15 June – Net Zero
Watch has criticised the UN and news media for
claiming that ‘climate change is pushing
millions of people into hunger,‘ a claim widely reported in the media.

A new UN report, “The
State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023”, claims
that 122 million more people are facing hunger than in 2019, and that global
food insecurity has worsened in recent years due to the pandemic and repeated
weather shocks and conflicts, including the war in Ukraine.

Whilst Covid-19 and the war
in Ukraine have both disrupted food supplies and pushed up energy and food
inflation, it is not true that food production is declining because of extreme
weather events.

Even Pakistan, which was affected by severe flooding last year, has just
reported a record harvest.

The UN’s climate claims are also contradicted by its own data,
which shows worldwide food production continuing to climb. New records were set
in 2021 for cereal output and the value of agricultural production. Last year
recorded the second highest cereal production on record, and this year is now
forecast to set yet another new record for wheat.

Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations, 7 July 2023

According
to the new report’s methodology, the UN’s claims are not based on actual data
at all. Their index for hunger is derived from computer modelling, while their
measure for food insecurity is calculated from household surveys.

Climate researcher, Paul Homewood, comments:

“The Director of the UN’s
Food & Agriculture Organisation has remarked that the world’s food systems
could entirely collapse. This is grossly irresponsible and a complete denial of
the remarkable success of the world’s agricultural industry.

If the UN is concerned
about world hunger, maybe they should call a halt to all of the agricultural
Net Zero and rewilding projects being undertaken in Europe and elsewhere, all
in the name of climate change”

The full UN report is
here:
https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/cc3017en

More details and
analysis here:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/07/13/war-covid-and-climate-change-push-122-million-more-people-into-hunger-un/