Chief of the Deniers

IPCC chief Pachauri claims CO2 will cause rise in poverty and food shortages

So how is that going so far?

If we ASSUME that all additions of CO2 to the atmosphere since the industrial revolution are due to humans then we have added 4.5 times as much CO2 to the air in the last 60 years compared to the previous sixty. Shouldn’t we be seeing the negative effects of this tinkering with Nature?

World agricultural output continues to rise, despite dire predictions of decline

World Food Production at Record Levels

And poverty?

World poverty is down.

The world attained the first Millennium Development Goal target—to cut the 1990 poverty rate in half by 2015—five years ahead of schedule, in 2010.

This means that, in 2011, just over one billion people lived on less than $1.25 a day, compared with 1.91 billion in 1990, and 1.93 billion in 1981

As the World Bank declares “Despite this progress, the number of people living in extreme poverty remains unacceptably high.”

Agreed. More development is needed in certain areas of the world like India, China and Africa. Just as the rise in CO2 is associated with reductions in poverty and hunger so too is it associated with increases in longevity and standard of living.

We might want to conclude that increases in CO2 from industrial activity is a measure of human progress not danger.

Is Pachauri denying these improvements in human well being?