Guest essay by Eric Worrall
“It’s really important not to automatically assume that all the bad things that are happening are due to climate change, which is not true.”
Global warming does not cause hunger in Madagascar: study
Release date: 12/2/2021 – 06:34 Edit: 02/12/2021 – 06:32
Paris (AFP) – Global warming plays only a small role in the famine that has hit Madagascar, according to a new study released Thursday that contradicts the United Nations’ description of the crisis. as “climate change hunger”.
The southern Indian Ocean island off the coast of Africa has been hit by its worst drought in four decades.
Last month, the UN’s World Food Program said more than 1.3 million people there are considered to be in a state of food security crisis or a consequential state of emergency.
In June, WFP said Madagascar was “the first country in the world that is experiencing famine-like conditions as a result of the climate crisis”.
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“Our results are not surprising, they are in good agreement with previous studies,” the University of Oxford’s Institute for Environmental Change told AFP.
“I was even more surprised that the UN clearly branded it as climate change causes,” she added, adding that “extreme events are always a combination of things.”
“It’s really important not to automatically assume that all the bad things that are happening are due to climate change, which is not true.”
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Copies of the study are available on Record world weather.
In my opinion, the main reason why the people of Madagascar are poor is that their government is a bunch of thugs, an opinion supported by the US Department of State’s Human Rights Report. Climate change may just be an excuse to cover up an utter failure to deliver basic services.
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