https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/26/ridiculae-climate-change-threatens-cranberries/
National Geographic’s illustrated article is captioned, “Climate Change is coming for New England’s cranberries”. It says hotter summers and wimpier winters are the culprits. Ah, good old anthropogenic global warming (aka AGW).
On the other hand, Daily Progress’ says that colder winters are the culprit. Which explains why anthropogenic global warming morphed to climate change.
WaPo says the problem is late spring frosts and mild fall harvest conditions. Who knew CO2 could shift the seasons, miraculously overcoming the enormous inertia in Earth’s orbital tilt? Alarmists claim to rely on ‘climate science’. Dodgy ‘science’.
Yale says the culprit is shifts in precipitation, both too much and not enough. Cranberries, you see, need the Goldilocks climate before AGW.
Whatever the details, just remember climate change is bad for cranberries.
This was my comment:
Reply to Doonman
November 27, 2021 7:19 am
And it gets even better Doonman!
2021 edged out 2020 as another new record year for cranberry production:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=102649
Cranberry yields have doubled over the last 40 years.
https://qz.com/1246514/the-us-china-trade-war-has-turned-cranberry-farmers-into-an-unlikely-pawn/
https://theatlas.com/charts/B1banH9oG
This is not surprising. Cranberries come from……….A PLANT. The most important process used by plants/crops to grow and produce is……… PHOTOSYNTHESIS!
I noticed that none of the articles mentioned the massive benefits bestowed to all crops from increasing CO2 as atmospheric fertilizer.
The Physiology of Cranberry Yield
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1015&context=cranberry_factsheets
“In the process of photosynthesis light
energy is captured and then used to attach one
molecule of CO2 from the air onto a 5 carbon sugar
which is immediately split to produce two 3 carbon
sugars. When carbon dioxide is in short supply the
photosynthetic rate is reduced. A carbon dioxide
response curve looks very similar to the light
response curve. At low concentrations of carbon
dioxide photosynthesis is limited by CO2. As the CO2
concentration increases photosynthesis is limited by
having enough 5 carbon sugars to act as acceptors of
CO2. As the concentration of CO2 in the environment
has increased rates of photosynthesis of many crop
plants have increased.”
It appears that the main problem with climate change is that it's greening plants to death (-:
Fake beer crisis/Death by GREENING!
Started by metmike - May 11, 2021, 2:31 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/