In their ongoing crusade to prove that black is white, the Trump administration's latest sally is a report by the Department of the Energy (DOE) which claims that climate change is actually good for American farmers (ah, so they do admit that climate change is happening, then?)
The draft report, authored by a group of fringe "experts" that has subsequently been disbanded under a cloud of controversy, claims that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will help increase the amount of food that farmers can produce. The MAGA-hijacked Environmental Protection Agency is using this spurious report as part of its ploy to reverse the Obama-era determination that carbon pollution is a threat to public health and welfare.
Unfortunately, it's just plain wrong. A group of 85 real climate experts, along with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, have published a comprehensive refutation of the report, confirming that the body of scientific evidence shows that climate change-related extreme weather will reduce crop yields and make food more expensive. Any growing advantage from higher CO2 levels will be much more than offset by crops damage from increasing exteme weather events.
Not that that will unduly worry the Trumpies. Truth and scientific evidence is not their strong suit, and they will doubtless use this discredited report to their advantage. Wait, remind me, how is it to their, and the country's, advantage exactly?
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