Simultaneous harvest failures across crop-producing regions are major threats to global food security. A strongly meandering jet can trigger these, however, climate and crop models underestimate effects with consequences for climate risk assessments.
not the Nature post but the “explanatory Twitter thread” link
Ah, I just ignore everything on Twitter by default so I didn’t even connect the dots
(you’re missing out on the comedy about (rather than on) Twitter from this past Friday)