Posted on 02/19/2023 5:22:03 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When the Agriculture Department finished its calculations last month, the findings were startling: 2022 was a disaster for upland cotton in Texas, the state where the coarse fiber is primarily grown and then sold around the globe in the form of tampons, cloth diapers, gauze pads and other products.
In the biggest loss on record, Texas farmers abandoned 74% of their planted crops — nearly 6 million acres — because of heat and parched soil, hallmarks of a megadrought made worse by climate change.
That crash has helped to push up the price of tampons in the United States 13% over the past year. The price of cloth diapers spiked 21%. Cotton balls climbed 9%, and gauze bandages increased by 8%. All of that was well above the country’s overall inflation rate of 6.5% in 2022, according to data provided by the market research firms NielsonIQ and The NPD Group.
It’s an example of how climate change is reshaping the cost of daily life in ways that consumers might not realize.
“Climate change is a secret driver of inflation,” said Nicole Corbett, a vice president at NielsonIQ. “As extreme weather continues to impact crops and production capacity, the cost of necessities will continue to rise.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Boy, are they getting desperate.
Oh well, it will always be entertaining reading pseudo-science articles written by folks who’d fail “Elementary science for journalists and other idiots 101” at your local college.
NYT & Yahoo; 2 mouthpieces for the Swamp.
That will get those gals on the globalist’s side.
Hang in their girls, you won’t need those corks forever.
Sure, let’s give all our wealth and income to communists to keep the cost of tampons low. It’s a good plan.
I’m surprised that Tiger Woods could even afford one, these days.
My ex room mate and I were discussing the vastness of Texas.
He described a cotton field that took three minutes to pass by while driving 80 miles per hour
I’ve heard the really expensive high grade tampons are made of Giza cotton
Tiger Woods will be disappointed...
“the really expensive high grade tampons are made of Giza cotton”
LOL! Can you get them in stripes?
the climate change in washington dc in january 2021 caused all of this...
How INFLATION is Making Tampons (and Lots of Other Stuff) More Expensive. (Fixed it)
There is massive climate change in Georgia where Jimmy Carter is said to be in hospice care
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-732001
Cattail fluff isn’t very absorbent.
Really stupid. Nothing the NYT says can be trusted.
Look at the first comment: “I am cotton farmer and was able to harvest my irrigated cotton. It is .30 cheaper this year than last year. 2021 cotton sold for $1.06 compared to 2022 cotton best bid is .77. Cotton farmer fighting inflation and can’t get crop sold. “
Here’s the pricing chart: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/cotton
I would add that the average Joe might hear "drought" and assume that we're simply talking about conditions that are hot and dry -- that famous Global Warming, right?
But, as I understand it, droughts really happen because moisture becomes locked up in snow and ice in mountains somewhere. Colder conditions cause thick ice packs in cool regions and thus droughts in other regions. So the "megadrought" is evidence (if it is evidence of anything at all) of Global Cooling.
But, whether they claim to see Warming or Cooling, the recommendation is always the same: de-industrialization, higher taxes, more communism, death of Western Civilization.
Those cattail seeds really stick to your cloths when somebody whacks you with one. Good times before smartphones turned everyone into zombies.
There is a River that runs north to south in the US. Periodically it overflows due to heavy rains. Pipeline, pumping stations, fields get watered, crops grow, end of problem. Plus jobs are created leading to better wages and new economic activity.
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