Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As the impact of the disruptions to Russian fertilizer sales and Ukraine’s grain supplies draws near, climate alarmists are waging a campaign to claim the upcoming spike in food prices is a “battle”. climate crisis”.
War in Ukraine and climate change could combine to create a food crisis
Russia’s invasion is blocking wheat supplies to regions suffering from drought and other climate impacts
Via Sara Schonhardt, Benjamin Storm, News E&E on March 16, 2022
Russia’s war in Ukraine is squeezing food supplies in countries that depend on those two countries for vital grains and cooking oils.
The shutdown of agricultural shipments out of the Black Sea has sent wheat and fertilizer prices soaring and raised fears of a global food crisis.
In Turkey, people are scrambling to buy cooking oil in anticipation of higher prices. Thailand faces rising fertilizer and feed costs. Egypt, Russia’s top wheat importer, has banned exports of home-grown grains and Indonesia has stopped exporting palm oil, a potential substitute for other vegetable oils. Aid groups fear that rising prices will exacerbate hunger in already vulnerable countries.
The Russian war is affecting the world’s two agricultural powers and comes as the global food system is dealing with supply chain constraints caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and weather events caused by the coronavirus. caused by climate.
Jonas Jägermeyr, a climate scientist and crop modeler at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Science, said that climate change could make the situation worse if agricultural production is in the country. Other parts of the world were disrupted this year due to extreme weather events.
Jägermeyr wrote in an email: “Climate change is accelerating variability in weather and productivity and if extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves or floods occur this season, there will be double effects, destabilizing the food system further,” Jägermeyr wrote in an email. “China has shown that its wheat outlook is very poor and other parts of the world are not looking good either.”
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China’s food production is in disarray because over the past few decades of economic growth, enforcement of safe industrial waste disposal has not been fully implemented – so a lot of it has ended up in landfills. in landfills or in rivers, creating heavy metal pollution and toxic waste spreading. Much of the pollution is now likely to spread over lands that were previously uncontaminated by floods.
In addition, during the flood of 2020, Many poorly built dams have been demolishedto save in my opinion The Three Gorges Dam is poorly built.
Even with all these problems, the rest of the world is already on track to fill the food shortage caused, before Russia decided to start shelling a nuclear reactor in the heart of Europe’s bread basketand interrupted this year’s sowing with their military invasion.
To try to tie the fake climate crisis to these almost entirely man-made problems, in my opinion in the hope of scoring a few cheap political points, I think you can guess my opinion on such an action.
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