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Cherries are one of my favorite fruits. I'm bummed that there won't
be much local fruit this year. :-(<br>
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On 04/14/2014 08:06 AM, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
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My impression is the actual climate situation is quite a bit
worse than the public is being told. Scientists active in the
field complain in private that the IPCC's function is to water
down the findings because the reality is far beyond what
politicians can admit in public and remain in office.<br>
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That said, we climate activists need to be very careful to
always speak with scientific accuracy. Every mistake or
distortion is carefully recorded by the denialist campaign, and
never goes away. Some of the most persuasive talking points in
that campaign are exaggerated predictions from decades past
which didn't come true. Rush Limbaugh's web site has a
countdown to the day and minute when Al Gore said New York would
be under water, Hurricane Sandy notwithstanding.<br>
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There's a rich irony here. No scientist positively attributes
any particular extreme weather event to global warming. That's
despite the fact that we are beginning to get large events which
were highly improbable (p < 0.01) before the current
temperature anomaly. Climate models don't predict such brief
events as a single warm winter. They just say warm winters are
more likely.<br>
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I'm here to congratulate Wes for getting it exactly right. May
we all speak as carefully and as authoritatively, citing real
evidence, as he does.<br>
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-<i>Cameron</i><br>
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On 04/14/2014 07:17 AM, Wes Rolley wrote:<br>
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I went to a fruit growers meeting on Saturday. Interesting
topic was the fact that no one has good cherry crops in the
South County this year. Not in Morgan Hill, not in Gilroy, not
even down in Hollister (San Benito County). <br>
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Lest you think that the culprit might be colony collapse
disorder in bees, or drought, the information that I was given
by a respected Morgan Hill Grower is simply that it was too warm
this winter... or conversely, there was not enough hours of
chill (850 for many varieties) to trigger the right response in
most cherry varieties. So, localvores beware, cherries will be
much more expensive if they are available at all before
Washington crops come in... and those will not be local. <br>
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Why do I post this? Because both the drought and the effect of
rising temperatures on food prices are both features of climate
change that the scientists have been warning us about. <br>
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don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - <i>Roberto
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