<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>"In temperate regions, the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations.</div><div> <br>\u201cCoping with the short-run challenge of food price volatility is daunting. But the longer-term </div><div>challenge of avoiding a perpetual food crisis under conditions of global warming is<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 253, 255);"> far more </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(0, 253, 255);">serious. \u201c</span><br> <br>David. S. Battisti and Rosamond L. Naylor.<br><b>Historical Warnings of Future Food Insecurity with Unprecedented Seasonal Heat.</b> </div><div>SCIENCE 9 JANUARY 2009<br></div><div>
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The effects will grow and build as the planet continues to warm: from one degree to one-point-five to almost certainly two degrees and beyond. The last few months of climate disasters may look like about as much as the planet can take. But things are only going to get worse.<br><br>\u201c\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d<br><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Michael Mann: \u201c\u201cA new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. But if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get<span style="background-color: rgb(0, 253, 255);"> worse and worse</span> droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.\u201d</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br>https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how<br><br>\u201c\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d\u201d<br>"The old saying that 'past performance is no guide to the future' is not a piece of compliance jargon. It is the truth.\u201d<br><br><<https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21723845-sheer-luck-good-past-returns-predicting-future-performance-fund>></span></div></div></div></div>
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