{"id":1776358,"date":"2022-12-15T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1776358"},"modified":"2022-12-15T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T16:48:31","slug":"climate-change-is-not-causing-famines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-change-is-not-causing-famines\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change is Not Causing Famines"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" 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Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Knxsh.qR4e-small-Climate-Change-is-Not-Causi.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"media-description\">While showing heartbreaking footage of children starving in Somalia, CBS News blamed their plight on climate change, but the facts reveal an entirely different story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">SOURCES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">CBS News segment by host Norah O\u2019Donnell and correspondent Debora Patta: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kevin-tober\/2022\/11\/14\/cbs-blames-climate-change-starving-dying-children-poor-somalia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kevin-tober\/2022\/11\/14\/cbs-blames-climate-change-starving-dying-children-poor-somalia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Somalia has a long and terrible history of droughts, experiencing 10 severe droughts from 1964 to 2011: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faoswalim.org\/water-resources\/drought\/drought-monitoring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.faoswalim.org\/water-resources\/drought\/drought-monitoring<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Somalia contains 1\/1,000th of the earth\u2019s surface area:<br \/>\u201cSomalia \u2026 Area total: 637,657 sq km\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/somalia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/somalia\/<\/a><br \/>\u201cThe surface area around the globe is 510,072,000 square kilometers.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/the-largest-countries-in-the-world-the-biggest-nations-as-determined-by-total-land-area.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/articles\/the-largest-countries-in-the-world-the-biggest-nations-as-determined-by-total-land-area.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Rigorous studies show that earth\u2019s rainfall patterns haven\u2019t significantly changed over the past century:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9588423\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9588423\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9588423\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC9588423\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature11575\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nature11575<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0022169415008744\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S0022169415008744<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">The earth\u2019s natural vegetation productivity has actually increased over the past several decades:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nclimate3004\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nclimate3004<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1126\/science.1082750\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1126\/science.1082750<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">The portion of the world\u2019s population that is undernourished declined from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">The average number of daily calories needed to lift the undernourished people of the world out of that condition declined from 172 in 1992 to 88 in 2016: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/globalwarming#assertions-famine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.justfacts.com\/globalwarming#assertions-famine<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Somalia has a problematic climate and is experiencing a severe drought:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faoswalim.org\/water-resources\/drought\/drought-monitoring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.faoswalim.org\/water-resources\/drought\/drought-monitoring<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/somalia.un.org\/en\/208004-somalia-hope-fades-famine-looms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/somalia.un.org\/en\/208004-somalia-hope-fades-famine-looms<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">As a scholar explained in 2011, \u201cFamine stops at the Somali border,\u201d and \u201cRainfall is not the controlling variable for this differential outcome, because rainfall is not really variable across these borders where Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111120101837\/http:\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber\/2011\/07\/21\/drought-does-not-equal-famine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111120101837\/http:\/www.edwardrcarr.com\/opentheechochamber\/2011\/07\/21\/drought-does-not-equal-famine\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/edwardrcarr.com\/downloads\/Carr%20Vitae%2028%20February%202022.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/edwardrcarr.com\/downloads\/Carr%20Vitae%2028%20February%202022.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Somalia is wracked by civil war and Islamic extremism that imposes Sharia law on large parts of the nation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/somalia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/the-world-factbook\/countries\/somalia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Somalia has one of the most corrupt governments in the world: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2021\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.transparency.org\/en\/cpi\/2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">The UN Food and Agriculture Organization complains that Somalia has \u201cvery high humanitarian access constraints\u201d due to \u201carmed hostilities, bureaucratic impediments and inference, and impassable roads during the rainy season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Covid-19 lockdowns have caused food shortages and prices to increase, hurting the world\u2019s poorest people the most:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theigc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Teachout-and-Zipfel-2020-policy-brief-.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theigc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Teachout-and-Zipfel-2020-policy-brief-.pdf<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7790064\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7790064\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/00368504211019854\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/00368504211019854<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">Note that in the very first month of the Covid-19 pandemic, Just Facts warned about the effects of lockdowns on food and other necessities by writing this: \u201cIf certain industries adopted the social distancing extremes that many people have embraced, this would shut down food production and distribution, health care, utilities, and other life-sustaining services. Even under far more moderate scenarios where people who are not in these industries shun work, all of those necessities and many more aspects of modern life depend on the general strength of the economy. Thus, overreacting can ultimately kill more people than are saved.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/vital-facts-about-covid-19\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.justfactsdaily.com\/vital-facts-about-covid-19<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">In 1989, William H. Mansfield III, the deputy executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, wrote that \u201cconcern about climate change impacts has sent storm warning flags aloft in the United Nations\u201d because global warming would \u201cdisrupt agriculture\u201d and \u201cadversely\u201d affect \u201cfood supplies\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/nepis.epa.gov\/Exe\/ZyPDF.cgi\/93000F7Z.PDF?Dockey=93000F7Z.PDF#page=39\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/nepis.epa.gov\/Exe\/ZyPDF.cgi\/93000F7Z.PDF?Dockey=93000F7Z.PDF#page=39<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">In 2007, Newsweek reported that China was undergoing \u201cserious food shortages due to global warming\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/growth-not-enough-98033\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/growth-not-enough-98033<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">In 2008, Newsweek reported that \u201cthe potential nightmares of global warming\u201d include \u201cstarvation due to drought\u201d: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mckinsey-cutting-carbon-wont-cost-much-85391\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mckinsey-cutting-carbon-wont-cost-much-85391<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"media-description\">CBS News footage reproduced under the \u201cfair use\u201d provision of U.S. copyright law for \u201cpurposes such as criticism\u201d and \u201ccomment\u201d (17 U.S.C. \u00a7107). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/17\/107\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/17\/107<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While showing heartbreaking footage of children starving in Somalia, CBS News blamed their plight on climate change, but the facts reveal an entirely different story.SOURCES: CBS News segment by host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1776363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,5623,5103,4321,9320,3819],"class_list":["post-1776358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-causing","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-famines","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1776363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}