Eight foods you’re about to lose due to climate change
Maple syrup
Rising temperatures are already causing sap to flow earlier: according to some estimates, this may push up maple production by up to a month by the end of the next century.
The US Department of Agriculture also predicts that the industry will move north, as the trees in cooler areas fair better, and maple trees in states such as Pennsylvania are less likely to survive the shift.
Eight foods you’re about to lose due to climate change | Vital Signs | The Guardian
There has been no trend in Pennsylvania winter temperatures since the start of records in 1895. Five of the last seven winters have been colder than average.
As always, the Guardian is lying to their readers about climate – telling them the exact opposite of what is actually occurring.
The US is facing a record cold start to spring.
By end of NEXT century?
gofer asks “By end of NEXT century?” Sure … that way it is so much harder to falsify this prediction. No one will remember more than 100 years from now.
You mean no one will be able to READ one hundred years from now at the rate the progressives are Dumbing Down Schools
The U.S. production of maple syrup in 2013 totaled nearly 3.25 million gallons, up 70 percent from 2012.
Some decline!!
June 11, 2014 – Nationally, maple syrup production in 2014 totaled 3.17 million gallons, down 10 percent from 2013. In 2014, cold temperatures decreased season length. The number of taps is estimated at 11.4 million, down slightly from the 2013 total. Yield per tap is estimated to be 0.279 gallons, down 10 percent from the previous season’s yield.
All States with the exception of Pennsylvania showed a decrease in production from the previous year. Cold temperatures contributed to a shorter season of sap flow than last year. The latest sap flow reported to open the season was March 8 in Wisconsin. On average, the season lasted 29 days, compared with 37 days in 2013.
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/New_England_includes/Publications/0605mpl.pdf
Hmmm… cold temperatures reduce harvest. I wonder what the Hell the Guardian was talking about, again.
AFIK, sap flow is mostly influenced by how many times you get above freezing days & below freezing nights (& it has to be at the right time of year, because the trees are kinda touchy about the length of daylight). Syrup production should be pretty sensitive to warming or cooling.
Still, it seems kinda silly, since Vermin T still produces syrup, despite being almost 1000000° from global warming.
Took me a moment to figure out Vermin T. Is Vermin for Lovers?
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTRRco8wnvxwhGwnKe07M_oS3ouz7Qb7fu068crDkIiLSYUoWiv
Well, we also have Vermin Supreme, a stereotypical leftist who thinks glitterbombing is the height of political discourse.
We got plenty of yummy syrup from our maple trees last spring! We are wondering when we can tap this spring since the trees are frozen solid this winter.
As a resident of Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh that engages in the Spring ritual of making a bit of maple syrup, I call B***S***.
The sap runs each Spring when the weather transitions from freezing 24 hours a days (winter) to warm during the day and freezing at night. This happens from about mid-February to early April. This year will be a bit later start than some years, but the transition will still occur. And the suggestion that at some magical mystery future date Pennsylvania will NOT have freezing temperatures throughout the winter due to AGW/GCC–pure B***S***.
The biggest decline recently resulted from the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist. Yes believe it or not Canada has an emergency maple syrup reserve and that was where they pilfered it from: http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/09/maple-syrup.html
Our Maple Syrup reserve is like your yanks Fort Knox but ours tastes better 😉
Man I mean I like Maple Syrup and all, but I would take the 6 MILLION lbs of gold instead.
Our maple syrup reserve is replenished every Christmas.
Quebec is the force behind this assault on Pennsylvania. The Canadians are manipulating the markets to drive off Wall Street money from their competition to protect Quebec’s monopoly. The Saudis in their war on U.S. oil producers just copied Quebec’s strategy.
Antarctica sea ice growing again ?
2015, 02, 18, 3.53244,
2015, 02, 19, 3.58506,
2015, 02, 20, 3.60761,
2014, 02, 18, 3.59074,
2014, 02, 19, 3.55059,
2014, 02, 20, 3.51506,
ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/DATASETS/NOAA/G02135/south/daily/data/SH_seaice_extent_nrt.csv
There are a huge number of maple trees that are never tapped for maple syrup.
Here in B.C. on the coast, they have started tapping big leaf maples. It rarely gets below freezing here and the syrup produced is a darker tone, but still definitely maple. Another climate crock from the Guardian.
“…as the trees in cooler areas fair better…”
Is the Guardian an Eighth grade newspaper??. Sheesh!
7th grade.
A fair one. As a non-native speaker, I don’t like the press teaching me sepeling mitsakes.
In the old days, pre-computer spell checkers, the Guardian was famous for spelling mistakes.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grauniad
I didn’t know PA was such a big producer of maple syrup. I thought it mostly came from Vermont and Maine.
We own a house in NE PA for 12 years. Every winter the Delaware river freezes over and the winds make my property feel like Siberia. Summers are variable. If there’s no breeze it can get hot and require air conditioning, but my house also gets no shade. We just put a metal roof on, I’m curious to see if that does anything to help. I can’t say I’ve noticed any change in the weather there since we bought the place.
I have a ranch style home with a basement, and went from a 30 year architectural asphalt shingle roof to a metal roof about 6 years ago. I went with a light color (patina green copper) to reflect more heat, and have noticed a significant drop in electric usage in summer. My attic stays relatively cool even in the middle of a hot day. I live in the country and can open my windows at night, and when it starts to warm outside I close them and the house stays cool. I would say I run the A/C about half as much now.
And I should also note that the metal roof was twice the cost, but at the time there was a decent tax credit that helped offset the added expense. The 30 year roof I replaced was only 7 years old, the new roof should last 50-100 years, and reduced my homeowners premium.
But the best thing of all is the sound of rain on my metal roof.
I looked into it when I had my house re-roofed and guttered 4 years ago. Because of the hail we get here at times I would only consider the heavier gauge metal roofing and it would have been closer to 2 1/2 X what I paid for the dimensional shingles we settled on.
Hail was what killed my 30 year roof in 7 years. Replacing roofs every 7 years is expensive, and not very eco-friendly. Now I laugh at the hail, and I should never need to think about my roof again.
End of the next century? We are, aren’t we!? In the 21st century. So they’re talking about the end of the 22nd century. Heh
I think they must have had this story in a drawer someplace since pre-2001 and pulled it out now, and didn’t bother to vet it. LOL Either way, a bunch of wild and crazy folks.
“The US is facing a record cold start to spring.”
Has February ever been considered a spring month? For those of us living near the forty-fifth parallel it is usually the coldest month of the year despite the days getting noticeably longer.
Referring to the forecast for March
And the temperature of the world has not changed for 18 1/2 years and this non-change is suppose to have affected maple syrup production. As I’ve mentioned before, how can a rise, (their’s, not mine) of 1 degree F affect the world in so many NEGATIVE ways. Utter BS. The temperature history of the world tells us that as the temperature decreases there are significantly more negative impacts and as the temperature rises there are significantly more positive impacts. Those are the irrefutable facts. How did the world get so twisted up. We live in a Bizzaro world.
Hugh, that wasn’t a fare attack against the Guardian.
The Grauniad?
It didn’t fair well.
Fairwell!
“There has been no trend in Pennsylvania winter temperatures since the start of records in 1895. Five of the last seven winters….”
We know global warming/climate change is real and will devastate the species so your factoids have no value. Global warming transcends data.
Data is best left in the capable hands of climate chiropractors who know how to make the necessary adjustments.
Many stations in PA are averaging 10-13 degrees below normal for February. With Arctic air dominating until the end of the month, those anomalies will only grow larger, should be a record cold February if not record coldest month of all time for many places.
Of course every idiot knows that catastrophic global warming is totally consistent with record cold (sarc).
OMG NYT wants to lose the sky lol http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/what-if-we-lost-the-sky/
Oh man, I hope they never do that. We can barely see stars where we live because of light pollution. We can only see the brightest and those are few. I see more planes than stars.
When I go to our country property it is awe inspiring, this quote in the article nails it, “And, he added, looking up at a starry sky provides “almost a prototypical awe experience,” an opportunity to feel “that you are small and modest and part of something vast.”
The first time we brought my mother-in-law there and took her outside to see the stars she began to cry. My husband asked her why she was crying and she said, “I thought I would never see the stars again.” That’s very sad.
http://time.com/7809/1-in-4-americans-thinks-sun-orbits-earth/
1 in 4 USA people think earth goes around the sun, quality education
And they vote democrats into office who are as ill educated as they are.