Ah, the climate change discussion. I know of fewer things that will start such a heated argument between people. XD

I don't know what to think of it, myself. Our weather here has just been generally warmer, but not chaotic. Just warmer, with a longer growing season. I think the reality of climate change is probably somewhere in-between the "ah it is nothing" attitude of the one side and the "aaaah disaster" attitude of the other side. But I don't know. I try to stay out of that discussion, as it seems to generate strong feelings on both sides, hehe.

I do think that, at least over here, climate change is sometimes over-politicized, and used by slimy politicians just to achieve their own ends (or those of the people who have given them the most money), so that makes some people think that maybe everything about climate change is just political nonsense. But yeah, I think it's somewhere in-between, personally.... :3

The food production situation, on the other hand, that scares the hell out of me regardless of climate change. They say that over here we only have about 6 days worth of food available to the whole of the general population at once. If that was interrupted by something, whether it be crop blight or war or disaster or whatever, I think there would be serious baddness. :O

Outside of some rural people here, /nobody/ grows and preserves /any/ of their own food anymore. If something happened, I don't think many people would even know how. Everyone just relies on the system to provide for them instead of even just stepping just a little bit outside of it, to do for themselves. It concerns me... Every time there is a natural disaster somewhere here, we see the people struggling to cope, but they didn't /do/ anything ahead of time or even /plan/ for an interruption from normalcy, and seem to just expect someone /else/ to take care of them instead of doing for themselves. And that seems kind of irresponsible and self-entitled to me...

But maybe I am just crazy, lol. >_> And I apologize for my ranting, lol...... Ah I hope I haven't said anything offensive here, hehe.

Uh, anyway......

There was a source book for 1st edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons that was called "The Wilderness Survival Guide". It had a large set of tables on it, based on historical weather data, that could be randomly perturbed in various ways to generate sensible weather patterns. It was very tedious to do that by hand, though, so I wrote a Pascal program on the Apple 2 to generate a year's worth of weather at a time and dump it to a dot-matrix printer. I still have the printouts around here somewhere, but the program is long lost. Ah the bad old days. XD