If you weren’t expecting particularly bad weather this year, you were out of the loop. This year marked the Grand Solar Minimum in which the world’s magnetic field is weak and more solar radiation reaches the ground. This results in a hotter world and more rain. Hotter means more hurricanes, typhoons and more wildfires. More rain means more flooding. Together, those mean bad crop losses. We knew this.
Chyna’s crop losses are catastrophic. A normal year sees Chyna with a 30% food deficit. This year saw 70-95% of Chyna’s crops lost and a great deal destroyed in storage facilities. As a result, Chyna needs to import up to three times the amount of food that it normally imports. The CCP is not providing more than a token social safety net. Worse, other nations suffered food problems and will not export food that they cannot spare, regardless of the price. As if that isn’t bad enough, crops around the world have been lost due to lack of seasonal workers. And stored food has inexplicably been destroyed. See Beirut’s grain silo. Millions of Chinese people may die this year from starvation. I hope that does not come to pass.
The systems aren’t just being broken down, they are being helped to break down.
Since something is preventing me from replying or making a new post, I am editing my comment with a response. It would be the height of irony if I am being censored from posting.
Mots,
are you claiming that charged particles radiated from the sun are not solar radiation?
More charged particles radiated from the sun, that may somehow not represent solar radiation, entered our atmosphere. Charged particles radiated from the sun represent energy. Additional energy entering our atmosphere heated our atmosphere and altered the weather. The unusual weather effects were expected for this year. Expect further consequences next year as well.