Georgia Republican Consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed on Monday that international warming was wholesome for individuals.

Whereas talking on the conservative Proper Aspect Broadcasting Community (RSBN), alongside host Brian Glenn, Greene argued in favor of international warming.

The video clip has additionally gone viral on Twitter and has been considered over 140,000 instances and was shared by commentator Ron Filipkowski.

"We have now already warmed 1-degree Celsius and have you learnt what has occurred since then?" Greene mentioned to Glenn whereas on the present.

"We have now had extra meals grown since then, which feeds individuals," she continued. "We're producing fossil fuels, that retains individuals's homes heat within the winter. That saves individuals's lives, individuals die within the chilly. This Earth warming and carbon is definitely wholesome for us. It helps us to feed individuals, it helps preserve individuals alive, the Earth is extra inexperienced than it was years and years in the past and that's due to the Earth warming."

Regardless of Greene's claims, scientists internationally have argued in regards to the harmful impacts rising temperatures or local weather change can have on meals provides throughout the planet.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to the press after a marketing campaign rally at The Trout Membership on April 30, 2022 in Newark, Ohio. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests international warming 'is definitely wholesome for us'.Drew Angerer/Getty

A report by the United Nations (UN) focussing on the hyperlink between meals provide and local weather change highlighted that meals safety is quickly changing into a difficulty internationally.

"Within the subsequent 30 years, meals provide and meals safety shall be severely threatened if little or no motion is taken to deal with local weather change and the meals techniques's vulnerability to local weather change," the report learn. "Based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Local weather Change (IPCC), the extent of local weather change impacts on particular person areas will range over time. And completely different societal and environmental techniques may have diverse talents to mitigate or adapt to alter."

"Destructive results of local weather change embody the continued rise of world temperatures, adjustments in precipitation patterns, an elevated frequency of droughts and heatwaves, sea-level rise, melting of sea ice and a better danger of extra intense pure disasters." the report continued.

Along with this, three United States scientific companies confirmed this yr that 2021 was the sixth hottest yr in recorded historical past and famous this was very regarding.

The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Berkeley Earth and NASA all got here to an analogous conclusion in statements launched in January.

NASA decided 2021 was tied with 2018 because the sixth hottest yr, whereas the opposite two organizations mentioned 2021 was hotter than 2018.

Based on an announcement, scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for House Research discovered that international temperatures in 2021 have been larger than the company's baseline temperature by 1.5 levels Fahrenheit. NASA makes use of the interval between 1951 and 1980 as its baseline.

NASA Administrator Invoice Nelson mentioned within the assertion that eight out of the highest 10 hottest years on file have been within the final decade, calling it "an incontrovertible fact that underscores the necessity for daring motion to safeguard the way forward for our nation—and all of humanity."

"Science leaves no room for doubt: Local weather change is the existential risk of our time," Nelson mentioned. "NASA's scientific analysis about how Earth is altering and getting hotter will information communities all through the world, serving to humanity confront local weather and mitigate its devastating results."

Berkeley Earth and the NOAA's information corroborates NASA's assertion.

Newsweek has reached out to Marjorie Taylor Greene for remark.