Today’s prognostication of Doom is about peaches
Climate may harm the future of Georgia’s state symbol, the peach. But there may be answers.
Lush, fuzzy, delicious: the Georgia peach is a succulent state symbol.
But human-caused climate change could spell doom for Georgia’s peach crops – and the threat has begun to affect the area.
In a feature story for National Geographic, environment and conservation journalist Sarah Gibbens looks at the toll the warming climate has already taken on Georgia’s peach industry, and how scientists and farmers are planning for a precarious future. (snip)
“Peach trees need a minimum number of chilly hours for their spring buds to bear fruit,” Gibbens writes. “Every winter, when temperatures fall below 45°F, peach trees produce the hormones that tell them to go dormant. The average Georgia peach needs anywhere from 650 to 850 hours of cold weather in a season – so-called chill hours.”
A warming climate imperils those necessary colder hours, and the American South’s winters are getting shorter and hotter every year.
The implication here is that this is your fault and things are going to go badly. The National Geographic piece is behind a “we want your email address to read this” wall, which I’m not doing, but, you can be sure that it prognosticates doom.
Antarctica’s South Pole froze over in coldest winter on record despite climate crisis
Between April and September this year, the average temperatures at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station dropped to a bone-chilling -61C (-78F). These were the coldest average temperatures recorded in the Antarctic South Pole since records began in 1957 but may come as a surprise to most. The extraordinary cold was recorded despite the planet as a whole experiencing one of its hottest summers ever. (snip)
The Antarctic’s bitter winter was likely the product of a strong polar vortex in the stratosphere, an atmospheric layer that begins about 33,0000ft or 6.2 miles (10km) up.
According to Amy Butler, an atmospheric scientist at NOAA, the vortex would have helped trap cold air over the South Pole.
And, of course, that strong vortex is surely your fault for driving a fossil fueled vehicle, eating meat, and refusing to give your money and freedom to Government.
No Tricks Zone covers this all in detail, including
The Washington Post’s suggestion that Antarctica “continues to warm rapidly†is also contradicted by recent studies showing the entire South Pole continent has in fact cooled since data recording began in the 1950s.
There are a lot fake news and misleading press releases out there, and they are being consistently exposed by objective peer-reviewed science.
The graphic is pretty much dead on for the Cult of Climastrology, except 10. They have peer review. It’s just mule fritters peer review, people propping up each other’s BS.
