A series of reports on global extreme climate anomalies (1)

By Li Zhenlin

Another major cause of today's global economic depression is the climate. Affected by the most extreme climate in history, many regions have experienced natural counterattacks such as droughts and heat waves, typhoons and floods, and instant freezing of rivers, resulting in energy, natural gas, grain, soybean, corn, and wheat. And other basic necessities of life are seriously out of balance. In daily life, three meals, food, transportation, and electricity supply for people's livelihood are all facing unfavorable conditions. Under the ruthless counterattack of nature, the living environment of the earth has been destroyed. Make maximum corrections.

This summer was unusually hot, and the heat wave hit many countries in the northern hemisphere, triggering natural disasters such as fires and droughts, including Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, and France. Deaths, wildfires raging in many places, and tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes.

Extreme weather pushed up commodity prices. Winter Storm Uri Winter Strom Uri caused ice in southern Texas, and natural gas oil wells froze and blocked operation. Natural gas futures prices in the United States soared, hitting a record of $23.68 per million British thermal units at one point. The cold climate has affected the damage of chemical production equipment in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the chain of industrial products such as PVC plastic bottles, paint resins, fertilizers, pesticides and other materials to be broken. Power outages for several days turned snow into a disaster, and residents were miserable. A severe snowstorm in Chicago sent natural gas energy prices soaring, and a freezing cold wave in Florida pushed up global orange juice prices. The wave of drought also hit North America, leading to the depletion of water resources in the west. The basic water level required by power plants was insufficient, and large hydropower stations were forced to close. People could only make up for the shortfall through natural gas and coal energy. .

Drought severely affected the growth of spring wheat crops on farms in North Dakota, and grasshopper blooms caused more than 1.2 million acres of spring wheat to be eaten and destroyed before it reached the harvest season, thus affecting the bakery industry, and prices of products such as bread and pizza. All doubled. Grain trade in Minneapolis also hit its highest price since planting in 2008, and dry weather in the Canadian prairies affected the crop, causing oat prices to soar to record highs.

繁體中文版 : 全球極端氣候異常系列報導（一）