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What does it mean / what will happen as a result? The twitter thread says more precipitation -- anything more specific than that? Big storms? No storms?

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It's going to translate to an increased rate of extreme weather events. Droughts in particular are of a concern as they're already resulting in massive crop losses. Here are a couple of recent examples in North America

* https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2022-12-...

* https://globalnews.ca/news/9761043/dry-spring-southern-alber...

This kind of thing can easily lead to famines if a significant portion of the crops ends up being lost during the year.

Even in Ohio we're having trouble this year. It didn't rain for four weeks, and our garden shows it.

People really don't appreciate how easily food production collapse can happen. All it takes is a few weeks of extreme weather.

Yep, and we have no reserves, it's almost entirely just-in-time.

To quote George Monbiot: most of the worlds food reserves are at sea.

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