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Bjorn Lomborg: Climate change isn't taking food off your table

Despite some short-term price increases food continues to be more and more plentiful. Rising CO2 levels aren't likely to change that trend

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These days no morning ritual is safe from climate alarm. The journal Nature has just declared that coffee is “critically threatened by climate change” and describes scientists racing to save your espresso from “extinction.” The New York Times blames sky-high coffee prices on climate-driven supply crunches in Brazil and Vietnam. And your olive oil? CNN and Bloomberg wail about a seemingly permanent “crisis,” with Mediterranean droughts foretelling a future in which this everyday staple vanishes for good.

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