*** Obama himself is so concerned about global warming that he flew by private jet to Milan, in order to make this speech, which earned him $2.7 million.
Not satisfied with such carbon spewing, he then took a 14 car convoy, to drive into the city.
Leaving office has not stopped Obama’s habit of telling porkies, as the Daily Caller reports:
Former President Barack Obama told those gathered at an agricultural conference that man-made global warming was already impacting agriculture on a global scale, shrinking crop yields and raising food prices.
“Our changing climate is already making it more difficult to produce food,” Obama said at the Seeds & Chips conference in Milan, Italy Tuesday, according to The New York Times. “We’ve already seen shrinking yields and rising food prices,” the former president said in his first speech outside the U.S. since leaving office in January.
But is global warming already hurting agriculture? There’s not a lot of evidence for that claim.
In fact, 2016 was a record year for crop yields, which have basically doubled since 2007.
Production of wheat, coarse grains and rice hit record levels in 2016, according to United Nations data. Cereal production is set to shrink 0.4 percent in 2017 “from the 2016 record high,” but “supplies are likely to remain large with next season’s cereal ending stocks remaining close to their record high opening levels,” the UN reports.
As for food prices, they’re well below recent highs hit in 2010. UN data shows the inflation-adjusted food index — the average of five commodity price indices — is just below where it was in 1965. the food price index peaked around 1975.
Obama himself is so concerned about global warming that he flew by private jet to Milan, in order to make this speech, which earned him $2.7 million.
Not satisfied with such carbon spewing, he then took a 14 car convoy, to drive into the city.
Not for him to have to share a bus with the little people
