If you’ve noticed the price of your Thanksgiving turkey tick down a bit, that’s because of fickle American tastes.

The market analysis experts at IHS Markit project a 4 percent drop in prices nationally. They have concluded that the consumer appetite for the traditional poultry has fallen off a bit, compared to other meats. The birds aren’t flying as they once did, least of all out of the freezer case.

Hawaii holiday diners always preferred diversity, with a range of ethnic dishes, so turkey was never the only choice. Hard to imagine it ever gone from the menu entirely, though.

Climate change disasters loom large

If you think this was a tough year for climate disasters, you ain’t seen nothing yet, says a chilling new study published in the journal Nature Climate Changes. A consortium of nearly two dozen scientists, including 15 from Hawaii, says that unless forceful actions are taken over the next decades to curb greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change, some of the world’s tropical coastal areas could be hit by up to six-related crises at a time. Think extreme drought, record temperatures, intense wildfires.

The prospect is “like a terror movie that is real,” warned lead author Camilo Mora, associate geography professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. The warning has sounded. It’s time to heed and start mitigating actions.