Oh, Noes: ‘Climate Change’ To Impact Florida Strawberry Production
Will it make strawberry production better, since plants love carbon dioxide, and a slightly warmer Florida in the winter will allow for more growing? Of course not, this is the climate cult, and Everything Is Bad
New report shows climate change will impact strawberry production in Florida
In 2022, the Florida legislature created the official designation of strawberry shortcake as the State Dessert. Key lime pie advocates may yet have a second chance to emerge victorious as important new research by Environmental Defense Fund and Two Degrees Adapt signals concern for growing strawberries in the Sunshine State due to climate change.
Florida farmers play a critical role in food production for the U.S., generating over $7 billion in crops, especially during the winter months. While famous for its oranges, Florida’s specialty crops, like strawberries, play a significant role in the state’s economy: for example, strawberry production generates $400 million annually. In recent years, extreme weather has hit Florida agriculture hard, sustaining over $1 billion in losses from Hurricane Ian in 2022 alone – and climate change brings an uncertain future. Environmental Defense Fund recognized that sound science was essential to assess risks from climate change to growing the crop.
Building off a crop model developed by researchers at the University of Florida, our research looked at how a middle-of-the-road climate scenario of a temperature rise of 4.3oF by 2050 would increase “killing degree days” when temperatures are, at best, too hot for strawberries to grow and, at worst, damage or kill them. Our analyses also looked at anticipated changes to rainfall and humidity that will increase water needs for strawberry plants. The outlook was discouraging.
The Earth has seen a temperature rise of 1.4 to 1.5 Fahrenheit since 1850, and these wankers think a middle of the road scenario is 4.3F by 2050? That’s insane.
In Hillsborough County, where most of the state’s strawberries are grown, growers can anticipate a 17% decline in early yields by 2050. Early yields are critical to making Florida strawberries competitive with producers in California and Mexico. This yield declines drive projected income losses of 10% per acre within the next two and a half decades. Economic losses, development pressure on viable farmland, and extreme weather will significantly impact Florida farmers who are already struggling against narrow profit margins.
Typical doomsaying, based of crackpot computer models. Meanwhile
Climate change is making crabs lose their sense of smell — and seafood may never be the same
Loony tunes.
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