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Date: 2013-05-17 07:34 pm (UTC)Anyone not concerned about pollinator availability needs to start paying attention; there's been a general, multi-decade decline in birds that prey on flying insects. Something's killing the flying insects. Major US crops -- almonds, for example -- are experiencing failures because of this. Not critical for grain crops but not trivial, either.
Last year's drought did a pretty fair job of hammering agricultural productivity and surpluses. It could pretty readily be a _wet_ year next climate ratchet. All it takes is a day over 45 C and you're not getting anything from that field this year. Random peaking like that is no longer sufficiently unlikely to be discounted on a wide scale.