Posted on 02/21/2019 7:31:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian disasters last year, according to analysis of more than a million online news stories.
Whole populations were affected by food crises in countries ravaged by by drought and hurricanes such as Ethiopia and Haiti, yet neither crisis generated more than 1,000 global news stories each.
In Madagascar, more than a million people went hungry as corn, cassava and rice fields withered under drought and severe El Niño conditions. Almost half the country’s children have been stunted, but their suffering sparked few headlines.
Sven Harmeling, the climate change lead for Care International, which commissioned the report, said: “Not only are the people who live in the world’s poorest countries most vulnerable to climate change, but they are also the least equipped to address its increasing impacts. Media must not turn a blind eye to such crises and the role of climate change.”
Scientists have tended to be wary of attributing individual weather events to global warming but many are increasingly reluctant to underplay trends in line with climate models.
Last year, the European Academies Science Advisory Council said climate change this decade had been “fundamentally responsible” for driving a 50% increase in flood frequencies and a similar surge in storms, droughts and heatwaves.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
lol
global warming didn’t cause ANY of those things. Socialism did!
They are going to do all this stupid crap right as we are heading into a little ice age.
Good luck, Brits.
And not because of science or anything like that - but because the leftists will hammer them if they get out of line!
Food crises are RARELY due to the weather conditions in and of itself.
Most food crisis situations are brought about by poor allocation of resources, and not by widespread scarcities due to natural causes alone. Political considerations are often behind making an artificial scarcity in particular localities, in some command-and-control economies, as a means to enforce discipline upon a recalcitrant community or region. Or it may just be because of corruption and poor management techniques, administered by people who are not so bright.
Monomaniacal defense of “equality” at all costs does have a downside, you know. Pity those persons whose revolution was successful.
The Migrant Invasion of first-world nations is the most under-reported HUMANITARIAN crisis....
You can always rely on the Guardian to publish absolute garbage that is 100% driven by the Leftist agenda. I wouldn’t use it to line a bird cage.
Climate models sells like hair tonic did years ago.
Media must not turn a blind eye.. ??
Uhhh,, OK.
The National Blind Corporation aka NBC may have a difference of opinion on that.
“Climate change was responsible for the majority of under-reported humanitarian disasters last year”
Especially the extinction of Unicorns.
They are also not reluctant to overplay trends that are not in line with climate models.
They are also not reluctant to overplay trends that are not in line with climate models.
It must be true since there were no problems 100 years ago. /sarc
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