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In Honduras, maize prices are up 67% in a year due to El Niño failed crops. The FAO-WFP early-action appeal for El Niño was $167M short of its $202M goal at launch. Grains are super expensive for low and middle income countries! www.4hunger.org/p/the-grain-...

The Grain Is There. The World’s Hungry Can’t Reach It. And El Niño Won’t Wait. open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... The world is out of grain poor countries can reach. Black Sea ports are shut, China, Russia and Ukraine hold 52% of world wheat stocks. New on 4Hunger.org.

The Grain Is There. The World’s Hungry Can’t Reach It. And El Niño Won’t Wait. The world is not running out of grain this year. It is running out of grain that poor countries can reach at a price they can pay. open.substack.com/pub/markrobe...

Food banks run on diesel trucks. Diesel hit a record $6.53 a gallon on September 21. Greater Boston Food Bank's chief operating officer put it: "If I am spending more on fuel, I can't buy as much food." Every extra dollar for fuel is a dollar not spent on food, 4hunger.org

This El Niño just broke the ocean temperature record. Heat alone could kill 451,000 people by February, before counting a single death from hunger. The UN has a plan to protect 8.8 million people before their harvests fail. Only one government has funded it, with about $3 million.

More records of this historic SOUTH AMERICA scorcher: 27.2C Chimbote PERU SEPTEMBER HIGH MINIMUMS RECORDS 28.0 San Pedro Paraguay 25.2 Concepcion Bolivia 23.6 Chiclayo Peru 20.1 Arica Chile

El Niño is causing floods, droughts, fires and smoke around the world. Governments are not mobilizing humanitarian aid to help people follow with the hunger and devastation that accompanies these.

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“If the temperature of the Pacific were the variable that decided the death toll, 2027 would be catastrophic beyond any precedent. It has no connection to the Pacific at all, it will be whether governments help the people that 150 years of El Niño records say will suffer from hunger.”

The Droughts and Floods That El Niño Brings Set the Stage: People Decide Whether Those Weather Events Become Acute Hunger and Famine open.substack.com/pub/markrobe...

www.4hunger.org/p/nineteen-a... “Nothing about the hunger in Africa began with the 2026-27 El Niño. Water has been leaving Africa for more than forty years. The grazing lands and the farmland went as the water disappeared.

Nineteen African Countries Have Already Lost a Harvest to This El Niño; Europe Devastated By Climate www.4hunger.org/p/nineteen-a...

The human numbers are already on the record, before a seed is in the ground. Famine Early Warning Systems Network expects delayed and below-average rains to cut planting and crops. The African Development Bank has put the cost of this El Niño to affected African economies at up to $20 billion.

Nineteen African Countries Have Already Lost a Harvest to This El Niño; Europe Devastated By Climate www.4hunger.org/p/nineteen-a... 49 million people around the world will be forced into acute hunger by this El Niño, there is still time to save crops in Africa, Asia and the Americas if we act now.

Half of the population of the Earth lives in Asia and grows their own food. Whether tens of millions of people experience food shortages from the Super El Niño depends on the harvest of crops that haven’t been planted yet an on whether countries impose export bans.

Record soybean crop arriving late is the mechanism by which the safrinha maize is lost, rather than a separate risk, is the sharpest move in the piece. There is a deadline on anticipatory action: it is fixed by the planting window, not by the drought index. What happens to crops next is the key!

The Half of the World That Has Only Begun To Be Hit Yet: El Niño Reaches Asia open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... El Niño has arrived in Asia and its impacts will play out over the next 18 months as will the hunger. Tens of millions of people watch and wait...

El Niño Has Landed: The Rain That Has Already Failed in Sudan open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... 4Hunger.org told you that El Niño was being predicted in advance. First in a series following the sun seeing the damage El Niño is doing 7 months out from its maximum. Today Sudan, next week the Americas!

Hunger Foretold: The Coming 2027 Hunger and the Free Public Maps, Research and Reports That Are Predicting It open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... The hunger of 2027 will be the most thoroughly forecast hunger in all of human history.

HEAT - The Master Variable: How Extreme Heat Became the Fastest-Moving Threat to the World’s Food Supply open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... Heat is causing devastating impacts to all forms of agriculture and agricultural workers around the world!

open.substack.com/pub/markrobe... Two-degrees is will be a reality, sooner than was predicted a couple years ago! This year we had two famines and four countries near famine, 1.4 million people in the most severe stage of hunger where people starve to death!will be much worse in a two-degree world.

Sanders: The irony is that the proper criticism of communism is that the Soviet Union was an authoritarian society.  And then you’ve got the most authoritarian president in the history of this country. So I suppose when he says, “I’d be a great communist,” yeah, I think there’s some truth to that

“A drought you can see coming for months. A heat wave you can see coming only for days. By the time you can feel it, the pollen is already dead, the milk has already stopped, and the forecast of food production for the season has already dropped precipitously.”

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST WORLD MOST EXTREME HEAT WAVE IN HISTORY Brutal hot nights -Unprecedented MINIMUMS IN EMIRATES 39.2 Musaffah 38.2 Dubai 37.0 Al Ain MAX. Temperatures up to 51.2C Bada Daffas Records smashed everywhere and will get even worse!

'China warns of crop risks as heatwave sweeps agricultural regions. China’s corn, rice and cotton fields are at heightened risk of crop damage in the coming days as a heatwave sweeps through key agricultural regions in the country’s north and east.' www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...

MOST EXTREME DAY IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Thousands of records have been shattered with the hugest margins ever seen in European history from West to East. There has never been anything like this, not even last June. Wait for many updates later.

Wheat that stops growing at 27 degrees; dairy cows simply stop making milk due to the heat; cornfields are cooked in a heat dome; One climate driver arrives without a forecast, in hours, not seasons, single most devastating climate variable standing between the world and its next hunger crisis.

Heat Dome, Ocean Blob: How the Summer of 2026 Is Battering America’s Farms and Fisheries markroberts995.substack.com/p/heat-dome-... Heatwaves since March and the ocean highest surface temperatures ever recorded are adversely impacting farms and fishers around America!

A season of record heat, drought, and marine warming is straining the people who grow and catch the nation's food and adversely impacting the nation’s food supply, just as the federal government is removing America’s food safety net.

This is Europe's largest onshore wind farm. It can generate enough energy to power 1 million homes. We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables #endfossilfuels

New ocean temperature record set as fossil fuel keeps dumping zettajoules (look it up — big-ass number!) of excess heat into the ocean every year. “Nothing to see here,” say the polluters. They lie. marine.copernicus.eu/press/press-...

EXTRAORDINARY WORLD HEAT RECORD EVENT Crazy MINIMUM Temperature in CHINA The hottest night ever recorded above 40 lat. at several altitudes MINS 36.7 Hami 739m asl 33.0 Shisanjianfang 732m 33.0 Shisanjianfang 700m 33.2 Tikanlik 847m asl 31.2 Tazhong 1000m 31.0 Naomahou

This is the best fireworks display on planet Earth. Astronaut Sophie Adenot filmed a stunning timelapse video of an aurora from the International Space Station earlier this week.

Hunger by Design: How the “Big Beautiful Bill” Is Emptying Massachusetts’ Food and Health Safety Net OBBBA, signed on the Fourth of July, is pushing tens of thousands of Massachusetts children off food assistance and setting the stage for the steepest Medicaid losses of any state in the country.

I assumed everyone knew this was predicted to occur when they sacked 50% of the NOAA staff and started canceling weather balloons that collect data last year; but if not. 👇

The fossil fuel industry gets 11 million dollars in subsidies every single minute: buff.ly/3BmwdIh How many more disasters does it take before we stop funding the problem? #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal #go100re

HISTORIC HOT NIGHT ON THE EAST COAST Dozens of stations have recorded their hottest night in history including many important cities like 87 Newark 85 NYK Kennedy 84 Central Park 84 DC 80 Providence providing they hold until midnight (likely they will) Updates later

Another scorching hot day in the East up to 106F at Westminister MD and Harrison NJ. 🌡️All time record tied at Atlantic City with 105F (106F in June 1969 is incorrect) Fun FACT:Only a scarce 10% of world landmass today had a Tmax above that of DC (not 1% of course😀)

Was a hot day in the East but nowhere close to the West Drier but much hotter:up to 111F HUNDREDS of stations on Friday in The Americas (USA,Mexico,Central America,Colombia,Venezuela) were hotter than DC,despite some crooks ignorants stated it would be the Americas' hottest spot

Record heat never ends also in INDONESIA. Today Bengkulu recorded its warmest July night on record with a Minimum Temperature of 25.7C. Record heat has been going on since early 2023 and won't cease until late 2027.

In the most recent global accounting, more than 266 million people across 47 countries were in crisis or beyond, nearly a quarter of every population that analysts were able to measure. The number of people at the very edge, at emergency-levels of hunger, has nearly tripled since 2016.

Sydney records hottest June since 1859 as expert warns new high a ‘signature’ of global warming #Climate

Miklós Horthy did it. Benito Mussolini did it. Adolf Hitler did it. Francisco Franco did it. Augusto Pinochet did it. Jorge Rafael Videla did it. Now Donald Trump does it. Did what? Used the threat of Communism to justify a dictatorship.

Three intertwined forces: 1) a rapidly warming climate, 2) spreading conflict, and 3) an economic squeeze on the world’s poorest have driven global hunger to double its pre-pandemic level, even as the safety net meant to catch the falling is being destroyed.

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