[PowderMonkey]

"They come and go. Anyone with a live oak or a pecan tree can tell you that."

Yep. I've got a stand of mature Pin Oak and Black Oaks. Some years nothing. This year only a few button sized acorns found, despite heavy rains this summer. Best year ever was '93. Some sized like golf balls, and piling up 3" deep on the ground. Couldn't sleep at night for all the racket on the roof. "Climatic event" my a$$.

[GovernmentShrinker]

When I was googling around a bit to try to figure out why I couldn’t find any acorns this year, I read on one site that oak trees seem to have evolved a strategy to produce almost no acorns in occasional years. The theory is that this keeps the population of acorn-eating critters from ballooning to the point where all the acorns would get gobbled up every year, leaving none to grow into new oak trees. Makes sense, and since apparently this has been observed before, it strikes me as a lot more likely than the alarmist “climate change” theory.