It’s always some sort of doom with this crowd
Climate change is hampering US apple quality and output: Study
Many of the nation’s biggest apple-generating regions are confronting challenges in crop growth and development, due to the impacts of a changing climate, a new study has found.
While apple orchards nationwide have become increasingly vulnerable to warming trends, the three U.S. counties with the biggest output are among the most affected, according to the study, published on Monday in Environmental Research Letters.
At the top of that list was Yakima County, Wash., which is home to more than 48,800 acres of orchards — and which showed worrisome signs in five of six metrics analyzed by Washington State University scientists. Next in line were Kent County, Mich., and Wayne County, N.Y.
“We shouldn’t take the delicious apples we love to consume for granted,” said corresponding Deepti Singh, a Washington State climate scientist, in a statement. “Changing climate conditions over multiple parts of the growth cycle pose potentially compounding threats to the production and quality of apples.”
So, a 1.6F increase in global temperatures since 1850 are dooming apples? These people. They are just so tiresome.
Don’t tell Johnny Appleseed. He showed apples can grow just about anywhere. The orchards in Upstate NY survived -20 to +90s temperatures, wet, dry, and in between.
The type of apple old Johnney was panting was used for apple jack. How well would other types grow.
Sorry, Apples. You had a good run. Nothing lasts forever. On the brighter side, more avocados.