Posted on 03/28/2018 9:30:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change is leaving a mark on one of New Hampshire's springtime rituals: maple sugaring.
Scientists and farmers dug into the latest research over pancakes in Plymouth on Tuesday.
Mount Washington Observatory research director Eric Kelsey says maple trees face a lot of stresses: abnormal storms, droughts, excess road salt, acid rain and new pests.
He says those stresses are all getting more severe as the climate changes.
"And that might explain the general 25 percent decrease in sap-sugar content we've seen over the last 40 to 50 years,” Kelsey says.
He says those issues also affect maple trees' fall colors, which help attract leaf-peeping tourists each year.
Longtime Granite State maple farmer Brad Presby downed a glass of syrup at the annual breakfast, then said his sugar season comes earlier each year.
He also says new regulations are making it harder to run a small-scale maple business.
The newly appointed head of the Environmental Protection Agency in New England, Alexandra Dunn, also spoke on the panel. It was hosted by several nonprofits that have been outspoken critics of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt's agenda.
Dunn says she hopes more local and state control of climate policy will help sustain traditions like maple syrup season.
I'm sure these numbnutts have the numbers for the energy required to reduce sap into syrup, but do they have the numbers for the associated amount of CO2 they loose into the atmosphere as a result?
(Traditionally, wood is burned...don't know about any modern "artisan" methods)
Mrs. Butterworth's may be the way to go for the AGW supplicants, out of dogma, rather than choice. Naturally, they'll have to give up their profitable sideline, too.
As long as they remember "It's for the children", they should be okay with it.
There’s a glut of maple syrup this year.....$10 for 32oz jugs.
So some at that meeting are calling for more regulations, which would undoubtedly make it harder to run a small-scale maple business.
But they claim to be concerned about sustaining New Hampshire traditions such as maple syrup season.
So, what do they really want?
(That was a rhetorical question only - of course what they really want is implementation of an ugly ‘progressive’ agenda which would inevitably crush small businesses with unnecessary regulations and taxes. That’s why they are pushing for phony climate-change policies that would have exactly zero effect on the climate. Any lip service to the contrary is just the same-old ‘progressive’ method of spouting lies in order to take away freedoms step by step by horrible step.)
I'm suggesting your taste buds are immature. Pure maple syrup vs chemically enhanced corn syrup? Seriously? But knock yourself out with the chemical sugar high. To each his own.
We have plenty of delicious maple syrup here in New Hampshire. Our maples have suffered some from ice storms and heavy wet snow over the past few winters, but that's not climate change, just the effects of weather on trees.
Insulting someone who doesn’t share your taste for food...that’s real mature.
Why’d you make the comment in the first place if you believed “to each his own”?
You and I share a lot of political beliefs but cutting down fellow conservatives over food preferences and making sex jokes while telling others to read the Bible aren’t two of them.
“new pests”
Is this a nice way to say undocumented immigrants?
That reminds me, I need to stop by the grocery store and pick up some Taylor Pork Roll this evening.
Where do you find that? That is really cheap.
Maple trees will be grown even more in Canada and the maple sugar industry will adapt and survive, as will the maple tree species.
we are having the opposite here- it was over 80 degrees last summer here and now its in the 50’s.
They used to bring up the that stupid hockey-stick graph, but that’s been blown out of the water so bad I have not seen it in a while.
They took a tiny subsection of data, with a minimum fluctuation and extrapolated it straight up as if it was an unstoppable steep slope that would always rise...
When I exposed the graph by putting in NORMAL yearly fluctuations you could see that this was barely a wiggle in the line.
Lucky You!! I hope you have a supply of sandwich rolls, and perhaps a mug of root beer.
Absolutely.
http://www.deerridgemaple.com/history.html in VT one quart is $28. You should sell the $10/quart bottles and make a fortune
Dunn says she hopes more local and state control of climate policy will help sustain traditions like maple syrup season.
So are regulations good or bad?
Lol, I know. I get them at Aldi’s here in Massachusetts or Big Lots at ten bucks a pop.
Steens pure cane syrup if you can handle it.
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