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Theodore Rethers's avatar

Hi Tom, I remember reading somewhere that scientists tried to induce rain creation over a wheat crop by introducing a high temperature ice nucleating fungal variety but all they did was end up ruining the wheat crop. Micro climatic change is in every agricultural system we have .

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Michael's avatar

An intellectually stimulating yet sobering article. I liked the small regional.to large global focus changes. My takeaway is that globally we should be looking at a warmer and wetter future? Lately there have been quite a few mentions of a possible AMOC collapse and a regionally colder northern Europe. My own prediction is a hotter and more arid planet overall, with greatly increased rainfall in various regions. But I'm a rank amateur.

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Tom Harris's avatar

Thank you. I think you are right. Even if the AMOC slowed then collapsed, it would take 50-100 years for the effects to be fully felt. In the meantime it will continue to get warmer with some areas becoming wetter and some dryer, counteracting the initial AMOC changes.

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Michael's avatar

Tom, I'm assuming from the early morning (PST) hour reply you made that you may be posting from the UK. Rick Thoman in his Arctic watch stack is reporting increased lightning activity in Alaska over the last twenty years. Do you have access to lightning data for the UK?

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Tom Harris's avatar

Hi, yes I'm posting from the UK. I've had a quick look and don't see anything obvious for UK lightning strike data. There are plenty of real time sites and one reference to a Met Office layer, but it hasn't been updated since 2016. Sorry.

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