{"id":359819,"date":"2024-12-31T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=359819"},"modified":"2024-12-31T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T09:54:09","slug":"telegraph-cereal-harvest-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=359819","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph Cereal Harvest\u00a0Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Paul Homewood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

h\/t Ian Magness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile climate change is also being blamed for the poor cereal harvest in the UK this year, which the useless\u00a0Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0headline calls the \u201csecond worst on record\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say, it is nothing of the sort, it is only the lowest since 2020:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.fao.org\/faostat\/en\/#compare<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/cereal-and-oilseed-rape-production\/cereal-and-oilseed-production-in-the-united-kingdom-2024<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cereal production was obviously badly hit by the wet autumn last year, which made seeding difficult in many places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But poor harvests do happen in the UK from time to time because of bad weather. The drought in 1976, for instance, or the wet summers in 2007 and 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was also another extremely low harvest in 2001, which as this year\u2019s was caused by the wet autumn the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is of course no evidence that autumns have been getting wetter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Telegraph also report claims by Tom Lancaster of the ECIU that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s harvest was a shocker, and climate change is to blame. \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, Tom, climate change is not to blame, as you must know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the chart of cereal output is proof that cereal output has been extremely stable since the 1980s, despite occasional blips. Your scaremongering about climate change is baseless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile climate change is also being blamed for the poor cereal harvest in the UK this year, which the useless\u00a0Telegraph\u00a0headline calls the \u201csecond worst on record\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":359825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691832369,691832368,691818056,691823829],"class_list":["post-359819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bad-weather","tag-cereal-harvest","tag-climate-change","tag-the-telegraph","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0harvesting-wheat.webp?fit=1600%2C1051&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1vBx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":411434,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=411434","url_meta":{"origin":359819,"position":0},"title":"Ugandan Villages Destroyed to Fight Climate\u00a0Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/03\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The \u00a333m aid project was designed to help poor Ugandan farmers deal with the impact of climate change.","rel":"","context":"In \"Africa\"","block_context":{"text":"Africa","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=africa"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNE7-exNqCKNOlBlqXqIbLRXBclbKQkDHIzmFvp2iueMUAanLVy13hJNGWuuyga7Mr_6MQNC3M9oIYvWp8qZMdLKfLILy8kw3SknOOrdeqR_NsvuD1XGg-XgvMGLkNF-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNE7-exNqCKNOlBlqXqIbLRXBclbKQkDHIzmFvp2iueMUAanLVy13hJNGWuuyga7Mr_6MQNC3M9oIYvWp8qZMdLKfLILy8kw3SknOOrdeqR_NsvuD1XGg-XgvMGLkNF-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNE7-exNqCKNOlBlqXqIbLRXBclbKQkDHIzmFvp2iueMUAanLVy13hJNGWuuyga7Mr_6MQNC3M9oIYvWp8qZMdLKfLILy8kw3SknOOrdeqR_NsvuD1XGg-XgvMGLkNF-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNE7-exNqCKNOlBlqXqIbLRXBclbKQkDHIzmFvp2iueMUAanLVy13hJNGWuuyga7Mr_6MQNC3M9oIYvWp8qZMdLKfLILy8kw3SknOOrdeqR_NsvuD1XGg-XgvMGLkNF-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0AQNE7-exNqCKNOlBlqXqIbLRXBclbKQkDHIzmFvp2iueMUAanLVy13hJNGWuuyga7Mr_6MQNC3M9oIYvWp8qZMdLKfLILy8kw3SknOOrdeqR_NsvuD1XGg-XgvMGLkNF-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C843&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":267337,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=267337","url_meta":{"origin":359819,"position":1},"title":"War, Covid and climate change push 122 million more people into\u00a0hunger-UN","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/14\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"To suggest that the world\u2019s food supply is on the verge of collapse is an outright lie, given record amounts are being produced. 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