All things considered, the production decline for U.S. agriculture could be 8% per 1°C. A fall of 3°C and the United States would be out of export markets for agricultural products, with the same true of most mid-latitude grain exporters.
This will have profound geopolitical implications -- namely, starvation and collapse for countries that import food. That’s for next decade.
This decade, once the temperature decline is widely apparent, currently importing countries around the world will rush to stockpile, bringing forward the price effect of scarcity.
If this sounds like the reverse echo of the global warming crowd, how often have leftist wealth-redistributors been right about anything?
Given their track record, the exact opposite is the more likely outcome.
We should be ever thankful to them though.
If it wasn’t for their melodramatic predictions attracting honest scientists into the climate science field, humanity would be sleepwalking into the climatic and agricultural disruption that is coming.
We will still have the consequent famine and death but we will know what’s causing it at the time.
P.S. -- Cold-driven famines over the last few hundred years are well documented.
Severe cold in the 1690s killed 30% of the population of Finland, and lesser percentages of other countries from France to Sweden.
In Ireland, 20% of the population died in 1740, one hundred years before the more famous potato famine. In 1816, the Swiss were eating their cats, dogs, rats and horses.
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