[marktwain]

Recent studies show that extreme rainfall has led to an 8% decrease in China’s rice crop yields over the past two decades, exacerbating food insecurity concerns caused by frequent pest shocks, severe droughts and rising carbon emissions.

Extreme rainfall over two decades? A very weird way of putting things. Chinese statistics are not to be trusted.

[bert]

The process is called reversion to the mean

China is a flood plain. The population has occupied that flood plain

[bgill]

If only there were such things as drainage ditches, but alas...