From the climateREALISM
By H. Sterling Burnett
In a recently carried out CNN story, it is claimed that climate change has caused the recent food production disorders in Caribbean and South America. This is wrong. Although in Latin America as far as farm production varied in 2023 from year to year and the weather, some farmers have regularly set records in some countries in the region. Although it was a time when the earth was modest, the improvement of the stocks on important cultures led to a decline in hunger. Without sustainable production acceptance and without long -term trend, it is simply wrong to say that climate change harms food production in Latin America.
In CNN history “Climate change disturbs the food systems all over Latin America, it says in UN report.” In a recently published UN report “Latin America and the regional Caribbean regional overview of nutritional and nutrition 2024” to claim:
According to a new report by the United Nations, the violent weather reinforced by climate change was fueled in all of Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023 hunger and food uncertainty throughout Latin America and Caribbean.
According to the report, which of several UN agencies, including the World Food Program (WFP), has increased harvest prices in the region in several countries in the region.
First of all, the extreme weather, which influences harvest prices in 2023 or another year, is not unusual, they ask a farmer. Extreme weather is not unusual in Latin America or elsewhere. Every year extreme weather strikes somewhere. If this is the case, it may hinder plants, care, harvest and/or transport plants and make it difficult to harvest cultures from field to market. When my meteorologist Anthony Watts and I have an excellent meteorologist and I have in climate level here, here, here and here, and here, for example, the world meteorological organization, clear that the weather is not a climate. Only long -term weather trends can mean a change in climate, and there was no persistent, multi -year or even multi -year trend of more frequent or more severe weather events in the Caribbean or South America.
While there were no indications that climate change influenced in 2023 in Latin American agriculture, El Niño, a natural shifting of the oceanic shift, carried out several storm events in the entire region. El Niño leads to shift of weather patterns such as excessive rainfall in some areas, floods and fewer rainfall with others, which leads to drought. It can also affect the formation of hurricanes, their strength and the likelihood that they will likely strike and contribute to conditions that are favorable or unfavorable for forest fires. There is no evidence that climate change affects the oceanic changes by El Niño/La Niña.
The strongest evidence that refutes the claim that climate change “disturbs the food systems throughout Latin America”, as CNN claims, comes directly from the organization Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which collects data on food production. FAO data show that between 1990 and 2025 the most important plants in the Caribbean as well as in Central and South America, grain crops (corn, rice, wheat, oats, barley, rye, etc.) and tubers and roots (potatoes, oats, barley, Rye etc.) (corn, rice, wheat, oats sweet potatoes, yams, manioc (maniok), carrots, beats, etc.) have repeatedly set up all records for production during the period.
- The production of cereal grains rose by around 44 percent throughout Central America, 18 percent in the Caribbean and 275 percent throughout South America.
- Tuber and root production in Central America changed by about 91 percent, 52 percent in the Caribbean and 6 percent in South America. (See illustration below)
Facts are facts, and while CNN and the UN could try to prove a single food disorder for some farmers in some countries as a regional climate crisis, the data tells a different story. In the middle of the continuing modest warming, while some farmers have decreased in some countries, in a few years and transport may be made more difficult due to storms due to storms, food production in Latin America is increasing. Farmer and agricultural areas in the entire region are good. There is no evidence that climate change disturbs food supply or causes hunger or malnutrition in Latin America.
H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. In addition to the direction of Arthur B. Robinson Center for Climate and Environmental Policy of the Heartland Institute, Burnett assembles environmental and climate protection messages.
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