Media Blitz Blames Higher Grocery Bills On Climate Change, Experts Disagree

Legacy media pushing narratives about the negative impacts of climate change – blaming everything from obesity to the Taliban on global warming – is not uncommon.

This week, multiple outlets carried stories tying rising grocery prices to climate change.

“How climate change is raising your grocery bill,” Bloomberg reported.

“Extreme weather is driving global food-price spikes, report says,” was the headline of the article that The Wall Street Journal carried.

CNN chimed into this conversation with, “Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says.” And Axios reported that “Grocery bills are rising as the planet cooks.”

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Legacy media pushing narratives about the negative impacts of climate change – blaming everything from obesity to the Taliban on global warming – is not uncommon.

This week, multiple outlets carried stories tying rising grocery prices to climate change.

“How climate change is raising your grocery bill,” Bloomberg reported.

“Extreme weather is driving global food-price spikes, report says,” was the headline of the article that The Wall Street Journal carried.

CNN chimed into this conversation with, “Extreme weather caused by climate change is raising food prices worldwide, study says.” And Axios reported that “Grocery bills are rising as the planet cooks.”

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The articles were all reporting on a study by the Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC), which was published in peer-reviewed journal Environmental Research Letters on Monday. In a press release, the lead author of the study, BSC researcher Maximilian Kotz, made no secret that the aim of the study is to advance anti-fossil fuel policies.

“Until we get to net-zero emissions, extreme weather will only get worse, and it’s already damaging crops and pushing up the price of food all over the world,” he said about the study.

Scrutinizing the study
Besides the fact that modern agriculture is heavily dependent on diesel-powered machinery and natural-gas based fertilizers, Linnea Lueken, Heartland Institute energy research fellow, told Just the News that the study’s conclusions deserve more scrutiny than the legacy media granted it. She called the report “pretty pathetic.”