Now he’s claiming that the drought in China is the worst in 200 years. Yesterday the claim was 6o years., despite the fact that the Beijing Climate Center shows 0% of the country in extreme drought.
Same story in the press, over and over again.
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“The primary cause of famine almost invariably has been the failure of food crops. This failure has often resulted from a variety of natural causes – long-continued drought, blasting hot winds, insect armies, earthquakes, severe and untimely frosts, and destructive inundation
Since he’s parrotting Masters rather than using real data, it’s no surprise.
Baghdad Romm, Barney Fife of the left, chaperon de crap.
Don’t forget these ones:
DEC 1877 (through 1878)
THE DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN NORTH CHINA
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5920323?
AUGUST 1878
It is officially announced that 7,000,000 persons have died of “famine in China.”
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2979891?
JULY 1893
A TERRIBLE FAMINE. DREADFUL REPORTS FROM CHINA: PARENTS SELLING THEIR CHILDREN. DEAD BODIES DEVOURED
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3563623?
JUNE 1896
FAMINE IN TONQUIN. PEOPLE DYING IN THOUSANDS.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/9328939?
NOV 1927
Nine million Inhabitants of the Shantung province are starving owing to a drought, visitation of locusts, civil war, and banditry.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/24197857?
Worst in 100 years? Measured by WHAT?
In their SIM World game they set their own Parameters! Extrapolations by “Wild Ass Guess” being Best Fit!
If there wasn’t a drought somewhere in a country the size of China, that would be newsworthy!