[onlooker]

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/a ... a-triangle
The craters seems like signs that the methane clathrates are becoming unstable and outgassing. Not a good sign in terms of global warming.

[dohboi]

I don't know, ol. I didn't see anything about evidence that there are more blowouts recently than in the past.

There may be such evidence, but i haven't yet seen it presented. If anyone sees such, please present it.

[dohboi]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/uns ... 2tprK.html

Unseasonal rain, hail likely to damage wheat crop in food-bowl states

You don't have to have devastating drought or biblical flooding to destroy crops. Just the rain coming at the wrong time will do it, and of course hail storms.

Those are going to become the norm in more and more places going forward.

[onlooker]

And that certainly highlights that the predictability of the agricultural seasons is now going haywire. How is farming supposed to be done when one cannot even count on predictable weather over spans of seasons never mind days or weeks.

[Subjectivist]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/unseasonal-rain-hail-likely-to-damage-wheat-crop-in-food-bowl-states/story-io0tm3EgzcZ5A4Xxl2tprK.html

Unseasonal rain, hail likely to damage wheat crop in food-bowl states

You don't have to have devastating drought or biblical flooding to destroy crops. Just the rain coming at the wrong time will do it, and of course hail storms.

Those are going to become the norm in more and more places going forward.

Yet one more advantage of root crops, turnips, potato, cassava, yams. They all recover well after wind or hail storms that will destroy a grain crop.