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How Britain's taste for year-round asparagus is threatened by climate change
UK Telegraph ^ | December 11, 2014 | By Emily Gosden, Lima

Posted on 12/11/2014 5:31:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

It has become a mainstay on supermarket shelves across the UK: fresh green asparagus, flown in to satisfy culinary desires well beyond the brief domestic growing season.

But Britain's love of year-round asparagus could now be at risk - due to climate change.

Of the 14,000 tonnes of asparagus imported to the UK last year, the majority - some 8,000 tonnes - came from Peru, the world's biggest exporter of the crop.

Experts warn that Peruvian production of the vegetable, which has soared in the past decade, is likely to be hit by extreme weather that scientists say will become more common due to global warming.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climate; hoax; marxism; socialism
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1 posted on 12/11/2014 5:31:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Emily Gosden, you are a dumbass. To the editors of the UK Telegraph that agreed to print this inane piece of idiocy, you are dumbasses of biblical scale.


2 posted on 12/11/2014 5:34:33 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LOL…The Muslims are taking over Britain, and those doofuses are worried that the supply of Peruvian asparagus MAY be reduced because of mythical “climate change.”

Some civilizations deserve to go extinct.


3 posted on 12/11/2014 5:35:19 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Asparagus Stalks At Midnight...


4 posted on 12/11/2014 5:37:56 AM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Q: How can you tell when an environmentalist is lying?

A: His lips are moving.


5 posted on 12/11/2014 5:39:54 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: chajin

But Britain’s love of year-round asparagus

“COULD”

now be at risk - due to climate change.


6 posted on 12/11/2014 5:40:34 AM PST by Klemper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dear UK journalist,

You have some excellent universities.

Go to one.

Try to get enrolled in physics courses.

Being a journalist, you will have to go through a few years of prep, given that you essentially are uneducated.

Learn about absorption curves.

Realize that your story is a bunch of bull Obama.


7 posted on 12/11/2014 5:41:27 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
In related but unreported news, it has now been 3336 days (9.13 years) since the last major (Category 3 or higher) hurricane has made landfall in the US. This eclipses the old record of 2231 days (6.11 years) set 19 Oct 1906.

Since Global Warming predicts more frequent storms of greater intensity, this record breaking calm spell is yet another proof of Global Warming.

8 posted on 12/11/2014 5:43:03 AM PST by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can now go to my local market and buy tomatoes and blackberries, year-round, that are grown in CANADA!

Ever hear of hydroponic greenhouses there???


9 posted on 12/11/2014 5:45:34 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“What are we going to do with all this Hollandaise Sauce, now?”


10 posted on 12/11/2014 5:47:27 AM PST by Carriage Hill ( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
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Experts warn that Peruvian production of the vegetable, which has soared in the past decade, is likely to be hit by extreme weather

I don't understand. I thought we already were experiencing Global Warming. If we are, then why has asparagus production "soared" over the past decade? Does that mean Global Warming helps asparagus production??? If so, then I'm all for Global Warming because I love asparagus.

11 posted on 12/11/2014 5:49:08 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Klemper

But Britain’s love of year-round asparagus

“COULD”

now be at risk - due to

PROJECTED PREDICTIONS

of climate change.


12 posted on 12/11/2014 5:52:20 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What’s up with the Brits? First it’s their teeth, and now they want smelly urine 7/24? They’d deserve AGW...if it wasn’t a false theory.

/sarc


13 posted on 12/11/2014 5:53:19 AM PST by twister881
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It can't be a coincidence. I'm certain there must be a direct correlation in the hot air coming out of those UN climate summit hoidy-toidys, claptrapping in Peru and this loss of asparagus production.

Oh, the despair the loss of a little asparagus must have on a nation.

14 posted on 12/11/2014 5:53:26 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Green asparagus? That's their real problem.
15 posted on 12/11/2014 5:57:32 AM PST by Moltke ("The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution if you only know how to use it.")
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To: Moltke

what color should it be?


16 posted on 12/11/2014 6:04:36 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yeah, tomatoes that have the texture and taste of old baseballs.


17 posted on 12/11/2014 6:05:45 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Moltke; Mr. K

“Green” in this parlance means fresh, not canned.


18 posted on 12/11/2014 6:08:27 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Gosden had two functioning brain cells, she’d known that the warmists would immediately end the use of all fossil fuels and there would be NO transportation of any fruits or vegetable from South America to England or anywhere else.


19 posted on 12/11/2014 6:09:19 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: sima_yi
In related but unreported news, it has now been 3336 days (9.13 years) since the last major (Category 3 or higher) hurricane has made landfall in the US. This eclipses the old record of 2231 days (6.11 years) set 19 Oct 1906

This past year we had the lowest number of tornadoes ever.

20 posted on 12/11/2014 6:15:43 AM PST by palmer (Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing. Or do nothing. We want Obamanet.)
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