If we have an El Nino this year, there might be GEOPOLITICAL implications.
As discussed here:
El Niño Geopolitics
"The risks of El Niño are numerous, including increased drought and fire risk in India and Australasia, diminished food production in the Asia-Pacific region with potential ramifications throughout the global marketplace, a potential increase for severe Pacific storms (look no further than the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan last year to gauge potential implications), to a very unwelcome potential setback in Africa’s Sahel food security situation.
In addition, based on research led by Solomon Hsiang and published in the journal Nature, a positive correlation can be drawn across the globe’s tropics correlating increases in conflict in nations impacted by El Niño."I.e., the warmer it gets, the more fightin' there is. Which is a macro- situation comparable to the increase in violent crime that accompanies heat waves.
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