All while you are the shining beacon of unbiased economic and policy thought. LOL.
Climate change is pushing up food prices — and worrying central banks
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If unbiased means whats actually driving inflation, and not propaganda, then I guess so...
Unbiased, generally, means that you go to the sources and/or show some evidence. As opposed to complaining how "the libs" are stupid and brainwashed
The article links sources which is non-press oriented. You can actually read the original report from 2023 and see the numbers for yourself right here https://ca1-eci.edcdn.com/food-prices-nov-2023-ECIU.pdf?v=1701056760 and, for broader perspective from a peer-revweed paper you can read Nature right here https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01173-x. My point is that nobody is saying that extreme monetary policy has nothing to do with inflation, but you have to be an idiot to deny that external drivers do matter.
Even if you took climate crazies at their word about what will happen...
Increased temperaturea and increased CO2 means increased plant growth AKA crop yields. There is a reason people build greenhouses and pump CO2 into them.
But of course this has nothing to do with science. Science means specific theories that make testable predictions. With climate crazies, the just substitute new predictions and ignore their past failures.
Increased temperaturea and increased CO2 means increased plant growth AKA crop yields. There is a reason people build greenhouses and pump CO2 into them.
But of course this has nothing to do with science. Science means specific theories that make testable predictions. With climate crazies, the just substitute new predictions and ignore their past failures.
Data can be manipulated to say whatever those funding it want it to say. In the 70s the data said we were heading into an ice age. The 80s and 90s it was suddenly Global warming. Now since they can't push the temperature in one direction or another it's "climate change."
I don't think anyone will argue that climate change—in and of itself—is not a fact. However, trying to state man made climate change is suddenly pushing droughts and floods in miniscule amounts of time is laughable. All the mainstream science points one way because all government and private funding are pushing for it to point that way, and all of the media is bullhorning those studies. All contrary science that goes against that narrative receives little to no funding and is buried by the media.
There's a reason Michael Mann's Hockey Stick climate model is considered a joke. He tried to sue after his thesis was called a fraud. The court's stated all he had to do was provide the data his model was based on. Simple enough. This should be something you would want to provide to PROVE the existence of man made climate change, not least to save your reputation. Nope. He refused and his entire case was thrown out.
And increased temps with increasingly more intense storms generated which leads to more insurance, death and destruction. Home Depot is happy. Not the rest of us.
At the rate worldwide climate is changing the poles, at a certain point, will be the food growing regions and the rest of the planet will be mostly barren desert.
Then like George Carlin said, the planet will shake us humans off like a dog with a bad case of fleas.
Climate change is not pushing up food prices. There is no measurable climate change effect, at least since we learned we were dying from climate change. (The popular media can never say, "we don't know why!". There always has to be a reason.) If we have no idea why, we make up a reason, e.g., when stock prices fall, if the pundits don't know why, then it's "profit taking."
Supply side shock pushed up other prices and food price followed. Some of this follow-on pricing is opportunism. Some is essential pricing increase due to supply price increases and everything that followed.
Climate change, as always, takes place over centuries --- except why a giant meteor lands in the pacific. When there is a hurricane, a forest fire or a big winter storm, nowadays its "climate change." The media, which must sensationalize to get viewers and listeners to sell advertising, can not survive by saying ,"no one has a clue." There will always be a reason. It will always be confidently reported, regardless of whether what's said is grounded in fact or pure bullshit.
The internet era has made every event, no matter how inconsequential or ordinary, a big deal. The "word," regardless of its veracity, is instantaneously disseminated throughout the globe. Exaggeration is now 'de riguer'. In the past, pre-internet, there was a limited number of news outlets and these outlets, because of broadcast time restraints, were very selective in what was covered. That constraint has been circumvented by the wonderful internet. Now we have Tic Toc for our news! I mean, what's not to like about Tic Toc. This just in: "The sky is falling, and it is due to climate change."
Supply side shock pushed up other prices and food price followed. Some of this follow-on pricing is opportunism. Some is essential pricing increase due to supply price increases and everything that followed.
Climate change, as always, takes place over centuries --- except why a giant meteor lands in the pacific. When there is a hurricane, a forest fire or a big winter storm, nowadays its "climate change." The media, which must sensationalize to get viewers and listeners to sell advertising, can not survive by saying ,"no one has a clue." There will always be a reason. It will always be confidently reported, regardless of whether what's said is grounded in fact or pure bullshit.
The internet era has made every event, no matter how inconsequential or ordinary, a big deal. The "word," regardless of its veracity, is instantaneously disseminated throughout the globe. Exaggeration is now 'de riguer'. In the past, pre-internet, there was a limited number of news outlets and these outlets, because of broadcast time restraints, were very selective in what was covered. That constraint has been circumvented by the wonderful internet. Now we have Tic Toc for our news! I mean, what's not to like about Tic Toc. This just in: "The sky is falling, and it is due to climate change."
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THEY never have seemed to grasp the fact plants like co2.LOL
Ag business can be complex, my wild birds actually like bugs LOL
We haven't been told when yet, but by late September seems a good bet, until late September arrives. Then the date will have to be moved to next Spring. I'm hoping to get a jump on this. I've been looking into farmland above the Arctic circle. On a more serious note, I've been living in Mississippi (or "Miss-sipi" as we say down here) for over forty regrettable years, and forty years ago the summers were hell. They still are. Canadian Summers, on the other hand, were heaven back forty years ago, and they still are too.
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