The reasons for the lower production include drier weather due in part to climate change, a resurgence of the swollen-shoot disease that affects cocoa plants, and illegal mining affecting land on which cocoa is grown.
[1]. https://www.fastcompany.com/91065690/cocoa-beans-production-...
Climate change is definitely a thing, but you cannot know whether this dry streak is due to climate change.
Ok, fine. Maybe there's a 0.000001% chance this has nothing to do with climate change (caused by man made global warming at that) & is just a temporary aberration. It's only 99.99999% certain.
Is that vanishingly impossible probability worth hopping in to defend? Is it? Do we have to suffer this, every time someone mentions climate change? Why be a denialist? What makes it worth considering this anti-stance for even a second? Why bank so much on the shadow of a doubt?
Could it be because of climate change ? Maybe. Probably.
Will that assertion feed denialists because it is not concrete ? I think so.
https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2023/may/climate-c...