{"id":236960,"date":"2022-12-30T16:42:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236960"},"modified":"2022-12-30T16:42:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:42:39","slug":"get-the-facts-straight-cnbc-climate-change-is-not-harming-cambodias-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=236960","title":{"rendered":"Get the Facts Straight, CNBC, Climate Change Is Not Harming Cambodia\u2019s Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A story published by CNBC claims climate change is damaging Cambodia\u2019s crops by making it hard for Cambodian farmers and fishers to pay back loans they\u2019ve taken out against their assets due to climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is false. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Cambodian farmers and fishers may be finding it difficult to pay back loans they have taken out to finance production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is problem for many farmers the world over. However, production of Cambodia\u2019s major crops have increased significantly during the recent period of climate change. As a result, agriculturalists\u2019 financial difficulties are due to factors other than climate change hampering crop production, because it is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenni Read, the author of the CNBC story, titled \u201cHit by climate change, farmers in Cambodia are risking everything on microfinance loans<\/a>,\u201d claims:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crop failures due to erratic weather and wildfires are leading farmers to take out loans to survive, with their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The \u201cmicrofinance\u201d industry \u2014 long touted as a way to help poor, rural communities in developing countries \u2014 is pushing tens of thousands of farming families into debt traps as they attempt to adapt to a changing climate, according to a report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read cites a study produced with funding from the NGO, UK Research and Innovation\u2019s Global Challenges Research Fund<\/a>, as the basis of her report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agriculture is most important source of income in Cambodia\u2019s rural regions, and the third most important sector for the Cambodian economy<\/a> as a whole, accounting for more than 25 percent of the nation\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like agriculture in neighboring Vietnam and nearby Thailand, Cambodian food production is reliant on seasonal monsoons.\u00a0Climate Realism<\/em>\u00a0previously refuted claims that climate change has undermined crop production in\u00a0Cambodia<\/a>,\u00a0Thailand<\/a>, and\u00a0Vietnam<\/a>\u00a0by making monsoons more erratic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since, climate change is not worsening weather trends in the region those countries inhabit it can\u2019t be undercutting food production\u2014and the data confirms, contrary to CNBC\u2019 s claim, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among Cambodia\u2019s top crops are\u00a0rice and cassava.<\/a>\u00a0Data from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) demonstrate that between 1990 and 2020, production of each of those crops has broken records for yearly production multiple times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAO\u2019 s data shows, rice production increased by approximately 350 percent since 1990, and cassava production grew by an amazing 12,527 percent. (see the figure immediately below).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fruits production is also critical to Cambodia\u2019s agricultural sector, most of which is consumed domestically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Banana is among Cambodia\u2019s top fruit crop and, like rice and cassava, during the most recent 30 years of climate change, banana production has regularly set new records for production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, banana production in Cambodia increased by just under 161 percent since 1990. (see the figure immediately below).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fish make up the largest percentage of protein in the average Cambodian\u2019s diet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data shows that fish harvests, both wild and produced via aquaculture, have been increasing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.N. FAO doesn\u2019t keep records of sea food production, however, the\u00a0South Asian Fisheries Development Center<\/a>\u00a0has, until recently, for the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its data show that between 2009 and 2017, the last year of available data, inland and marine capture of fish, and aquaculture production have all increased substantially, producing an overall increase in fish production topping 66 percent. (See the graphic below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is no evidence whatsoever that climate change is undermining Cambodian farmers abilities to pay back existing loans or forcing them to undertake new ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The data clearly demonstrate that across the range of Cambodia\u2019s most critical food stuffs, from cereal crops, to root vegetables, to fruits, to fish, production has increased dramatically during the period of recent modest warming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is fact-based good news CNBC could have reported. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, rather than checking the facts, which would have undermined its continuing trend of reporting false climate alarm, CNBC chose to promote the alarmist narrative of impending climate doom, this time as promoted by a climate NGO in the U.K. Bad form, CNBC, bad form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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H. Sterling Burnett<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to directing The Heartland Institute’s Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy, Burett puts Environment & Climate News together, is the editor of Heartland’s Climate Change Weekly email, and the host of the Environment & Climate News Podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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