*The following are brief descriptions of articles published by Climate Realism <climaterealism.com/> over the last couple of weeks. They tell a story of the half-truths and lies corporate media publish to manipulate the public into believing the climate alarmism narrative.*
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*Wrong, Earth.com, Cocoa Production Is Not ‘Under Extreme Climate Pressure’ It’s Improving <climaterealism.com/2025/02/wrong-earth-com-cocoa-production-is-not-under-extreme-climate-pressure-its-improving/>*
Two weeks ago, Earth.com published a story <www.newsbreak.com/earth-com-2402525/3799922139236-cocoa-production-in-africa-is-under-extreme-climate-pressure> written by Andrei Ionescu claiming climate change is causing cocoa production to fall in West and Central Africa. This is false. there is no evidence whatsoever that climate change is putting cocoa production under extreme pressure, except perhaps in the imagination of Earth.com’s Ionescu.
Data show that cocoa production has increased during the last few decades of modest warming, rather than falling. Part of the reason for this is improved growing conditions in those regions and carbon dioxide fertilisation.
*The BBC Tries a Feckless Rescue as Scientists Inconveniently Find the Gulf Stream Isn’t Getting Weaker <climaterealism.com/2025/02/the-bbc-tries-a-feckless-rescue-as-scientists-inconveniently-find-the-gulf-stream-isnt-getting-weaker/>*
In 2023, the BBC published a climate alarmist report titled ‘Antarctic ocean currents heading for collapse – report <www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-65120327>’ about an Australian study. The study, published in the journal Nature, claimed that a slowdown in the North Atlantic current could reduce ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Here’s the problem. Climate science can’t seem to decide if the current, officially called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (“AMOC”), is speeding up, slowing down or not changing at all. In fact, the claims flip-flop from year to year.
The only thing predictable about the AMOC is that no matter what side of the flip-flop it is claimed to be on, the media, such as the BBC, will find a way to turn it into a meritless doomsday scenario.
*Wrong, Politico, Climate Change Does Not Threaten the EU’s Survival, But Climate Policy Does <climaterealism.com/2025/02/wrong-politico-climate-change-does-not-threaten-the-eus-survival-but-climate-policy-does/>*
A Politico article published two weeks ago, ‘*Climate change threatens EU’s survival, German security report warns <www.politico.eu/article/climate-change-eu-germany-bnd-report-security-global-warming/>*’, claims that “global warming will exacerbate conflicts, hunger and migration worldwide, with growing risks for Europe.” Evidence undermines these claims. In reality, the world is not suffering destabilisation due to climate change, but European populations are far more likely to suffer from climate policy.
Politico reports on a “landmark” political report from the German Federal Intelligence Service (“BND”) that attempts to assess “the dangers climate change poses to German and European security over the next 15 years.” The report concludes that “climate change’s destabilizing effects will drive up migration and food prices, threatening economic and political upheaval,” and “the unequal impact of rising temperatures in the EU — with southern countries hit worse than others — risks tearing the bloc apart.”
Politico goes on to claim that as global average temperature rises, “so do the frequency, severity and intensity of flood-triggering extreme rainfall, deadly heat waves, harvest-destroying droughts and the conditions that allow wildfires to spread easily.”
These claims are false, as available data proves.
While rainfall has modestly increased over northern latitudes that contain the European Union member states, extreme rainfall that causes flooding has not. Heatwaves <climaterealism.com/2022/07/wrong-legacy-media-climate-change-is-not-causing-summer-heatwaves-in-the-u-s-and-europe/> and drought <climaterealism.com/2021/03/sorry-guardian-europes-recent-dry-spell-isnt-the-worst-in-2000-years/> are likewise not getting worse, and contra Politico and the German report’s claims, crop production is not declining in Europe due to those conditions. Wildfires are also on the decline <earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145421/building-a-long-term-record-of-fire> globally.
Interestingly, Politico and the German report do admit that government response to climate alarmism may also cause tension. Politico reports that carbon pricing will cause tension disproportionately affects poorer households.
It already has caused tensions and has contributed to a growing threat to European food supplies, resulting in frequent mass protests in multiple countries by farmers. Looking beyond carbon taxes, the push for electric vehicles is a subsidy for a luxury product that most cannot afford. London’s “ultra low emission zones” (ULEZ <tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone>) are basically a tax on the poor who cannot afford to purchase new electric or low emitting hybrids.
It’s shameful that Politico and the German government are downplaying the harm that the unnecessary, unjustified, climate policies which they have supported have had on Europeans. Extreme weather is not getting worse, but the impacts of government overreach and taxation in the name of climate change are.
*Wrong, The Guardian, There Are No Identifiable “Climate Tipping Points” <climaterealism.com/2025/02/wrong-the-guardian-there-are-no-identifiable-climate-tipping-points/>*
Last week, *The Guardian* posted an article <www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/18/early-warning-system-for-climate-tipping-points-given-81m-kickstart> discussing funding given to UK research groups in an effort to track potential “climate tipping points” so forecasts can be made to warn about upcoming catastrophes.
The premise that we are approaching dangerous and unprecedented climate tipping points is unsupported by history or present data. The planet has been through periods of massive change many times in the past. There is no evidence that there is a magic temperature at which positive feedbacks will spiral out of control and none of the myriad conditions some researchers have pointed to as dangerous indicate a threat of ”tipping” over some imagined edge.
*Sorry, New York Times, Climate Change Isn’t the Cause of High Coffee Prices <climaterealism.com/2025/02/sorry-new-york-times-climate-change-isnt-the-cause-of-high-coffee-prices/>*
On Saturday *The New York Times* published an article titled ‘*Coffee Prices Are at a 50-Year High. Producers Aren’t Celebrating <archive.is/PKjhx>*’. It claims that climate change is damaging coffee production in top coffee-producing countries, mainly Honduras, Brazil and Vietnam. This is not borne out in the data. Coffee production data show that there has been a steady increase over time, despite – and perhaps due in part to – increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and the slight warming of recent decades.
False claims about a climate change-induced coffee crisis are nothing new; *Climate Realism* has addressed the attempts by media outlets to stir up fears about coffee production and climate change dozens of times <climaterealism.com/page/6/?s=coffee> in just the past couple of years. Each time, a news outlet hypes a low-yield season in one particular part of the world, while ignoring positive trends in the same country in previous seasons, and especially positive trends elsewhere in the world. This myopic, seasonal alarm makes it clear that many corporate media outlets are unaware of (or are ignoring) the fact that the production of crops has always varied from year to year.
Looking at long-term trends in production and yield tells the real story, not a single season’s production or yield. With coffee, the story the trends tell is increasing production and yields, leading to long-term gains for producers.
*The New York Times* did admit that high fertilizer and transportation costs were contributing to problems faced by coffee growers, which is ironic since the anti-fossil fuel policies that climate alarmists have pushed are a large part of the reason for the limited supplies and higher prices.
Additional restrictions on fossil fuel development and use, policies called for by climate scolds and endorsed by *The New York Times*, would only increase fertilizer, insecticide, fungicide and transportation fuel costs more. This would make it even harder for coffee growers to make a living. This applies even to non-chemical fertilizers since oil and gas make up the bulk of the affordable energy needed for transportation and processing technology.
Likewise, *The New York Times* reports that regulations from Europe “aimed at limiting deforestation” have targeted coffee producers, likely at the behest of the same environmentalists now falsely blaming climate change for increased coffee prices.
*Featured image: Coffee plantation in Alfenas, the southern part of Minas Gerais state, the centre of coffee production in Brazil (19 September 2011).*