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Natural anomaly becomes a weapon of mass destruction.
The war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine is not directly related to this phenomenon, but hundreds of millions of people have lost a global food supplier during the period of declining grain exports from the United States..
The cruel tricks of the “baby” are indirectly related to the rise in food prices that has been going on for more than a year. Now, the consequences of a natural anomaly are becoming weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Russian dictator Putin, who blocked millions of tons of Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea against the backdrop of a megadrought and crop failures in the United States..
Increasing La Nina visits are not the result of human activity.
Back to the AP NEWS article. The current two-year La Nina could last for a third winter in a row. Scientists note that over the past 25 years, the La Nina phenomenon has become more frequent, and this is in direct contrast to what, according to their best computer models, should occur in connection with anthropogenic climate change..
Something strange is happening with a powerful natural phenomenon that is causing drought and wildfires in the western United States, as well as severe hurricanes in the Atlantic. Meteorologists do not promise good news: megadrought in the US West will not end until La Nina leaves. And she doesn't even think about leaving..
A bit of theory.
A bit of theory: Large-scale cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern regions of the equatorial Pacific Ocean is associated with La Nina. It is interdependent on changes in atmospheric circulation in the tropics.. This phenomenon has an impact on weather and climate that is opposite to its antipode - El Nino.
The frequency of La Nina occurrences has doubled.
A statistical analysis of the occurrence of winter La Ninas by the Associated Press shows that from 1950 to 1999 they occurred about 28% of the time, but in the last 25 winters they have already occurred in almost half of the cases.. Perhaps this is a coincidence, but if La Nina continues next winter, then existing climate models will need to be revised: they predict El Nino more often than La Nina, but in reality the opposite happens.
Worst drought in 1200 years.
The current La Nina formed at the end of the summer of 2020, when a record for the number of storms was set in the Atlantic. In the early summer of 2021, La Nina weakened and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But the pause lasted only a few months, and by the beginning of autumn 2021, the formidable “baby” La Nina returned again, and in April she surprised meteorologists with a record intensity.
If it weren't for the resonance with climate change, La Nina could have made the U.S. drought the worst in 300 years, but combined with climate change, it's the worst, at least in recent years, according to University of California climate scientist Daniel Swain..
La Nina plus war equals hunger.
And, as a result:
in the conditions of today's tragic reality, including a megadrought, the United States will not be able to provide humanity with grain in sufficient quantities, which makes it possible for Putin to simply starve several million people.
Children will die first from malnutrition.
PIPI: one third higher than last year.
In April 2022, the FAO Food Price Index* (FPI) averaged 158.5 points, up 36.4 points (29.8 percent) from the corresponding period last year, FAO informs.