By James Taylor | October 9th, 2019|Climate|13 Comments
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other media outlets are selling the story that global warming is devastating Wisconsin apple production. Real-world data, however, show any climate change that may be occurring is boosting global crop production, American crop production, and Wisconsin crop production. Moreover, cold weather rather than heat was the culprit in the few times during recent years when Wisconsin apple crop production suffered.
The Journal Sentinel published an October 1, 2019, article titled, “Fighting back against climate change: Wisconsin farmers find ways to protect their crops, our food supply.” The article focused heavily on anecdotal stories of Wisconsin apple farmers who speculate that climate change is harming their crops. But after spending several paragraphs asserting “changing climate conditions” and more frequent “severe events” are harming apple crops, the Journal Sentinel finally, in paragraph 10 of the article, specifies just what changing climate conditions and severe weather events are harming Wisconsin apple production. The culprit: severe frost events that occurred later in the spring in 2012 and 2016 than is normally the case..........To Read More.....
The Journal Sentinel published an October 1, 2019, article titled, “Fighting back against climate change: Wisconsin farmers find ways to protect their crops, our food supply.” The article focused heavily on anecdotal stories of Wisconsin apple farmers who speculate that climate change is harming their crops. But after spending several paragraphs asserting “changing climate conditions” and more frequent “severe events” are harming apple crops, the Journal Sentinel finally, in paragraph 10 of the article, specifies just what changing climate conditions and severe weather events are harming Wisconsin apple production. The culprit: severe frost events that occurred later in the spring in 2012 and 2016 than is normally the case..........To Read More.....
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