"Recent articles in Scientific American and elsewhere acknowledge what many climate realists have long said: climate change, whether human-caused or not, does not mean the end of human civilization or life on Earth. Instead, human life is getting better.
In one essay, journalist Will Boisvert argues the climate influence of human greenhouse gas emissions isn’t catastrophic, writing:
How bad will climate change be?
Not very. …
While the climate upheaval will be large, the consequences for human well-being will be small. Looked at in the broader context of economic development, climate change will barely slow our progress in the effort to raise living standards.
Among the evidence Boisvert cites to prove his case is a Lancet study released in 2016 which the mainstream media portrayed as showing climate change would cause food shortages leading to 529,000 deaths each year from malnutrition and related diseases.
What the study really showed is,
… in 2050 the world will be better fed than ever before. …
- [F]ood will be more abundant than now thanks to advances in agricultural productivity that will dwarf the effects of climate change, …
- rais[ing] per-capita food availability to 3,107 kilocalories per day, …
- substantially higher than the benchmarked 2010 level of 2,817 kilocalories—and for a much larger global population.
- The poorest countries will benefit most, with food availability rising 14 percent in Africa and Southeast Asia.
- [T]he study estimates that improved diets will save a net 1,348,000 lives per year in 2050..."
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