Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds
Climate research moves from papers to articles to headlines like a game of telephone. I think this is a big problem because it gives your average doomscroller a sense of impending dread and helplessness. Michael E Mann (the famous climate scientist who published the &quot;hockey stick&quot; emissions paper) talks about this in his new book -- &quot;The New Climate War.&quot; Check it out.<p>The body of this article does touch on the actual claim of the paper -- that a myriad of factors linked to climate change have stymied agricultural productivity (particularly in less-affluent countries) compared to what that productivity would have been without those factors -- even though total agricultural output has grown due to better technology and so on.<p>However, if all you see is the headline the impression you get is: the world is getting hot and our farms aren&#x27;t being productive enough. That&#x27;s a different claim that inspires despair, not action.<p>Climate change is real and very, very scary. But the progress we&#x27;ve made in renewables, battery tech, agricultural yields, desalinization, etc., is really remarkable. It ain&#x27;t over &#x27;til it&#x27;s over.