Posted on 03/14/2025 3:24:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sebago, Maine — You know you're in Maine when the pancakes come hot off a 100-year-old wood stove. But drill into Alan Greene's eighth-generation maple syrup operation in the town of Sebago, and you'll find it doesn't run as smoothly as it used to.
"The last 10 years, we are definitely becoming warmer earlier," said Greene, who runs Greene Maple Farms. "We're not getting the cold and the gradual warm-up. We're getting warm-up, warm-up, warm-up, with deep freezes in between."
It's been a cold winter in Maine so far this year. But across the country, over time, climate change has warmed winters by an average of 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the nonprofit Climate Central.
The coldest parts of the country are warming the fastest. Portland, Maine, now experiences 22 more warm winter days — classified as temperatures above normal — that in it did in 1970, per Climate Central.
This means the sap flows much earlier, and gets boiled earlier, than what Greene's father recorded in his annual syrup log when he ran operations.
Projections show the prime range of sugar maple habitat shifting northward, where it is cooler. Jason Lilley, a professor of sustainable agriculture at the University of Maine, says the state's maple trees are "absolutely" under stress from climate change.
"I just don't want producers to be going out of business, and to see this industry start to decline," Lilley said. "We can't just sit around and watch this happen.
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A sticky business, this global warming hoax.
Tell it to the Toronto Maple Leafs!
Didn’t we spend $30 trillion studying transgender maple trees?
I recall as a high school student back in the 1980s reading stories about how threatened maple syrup production was at that time due to acid rain and other human related activity.
Oh yeah, acid rain.
Lantern Fly.
Climate Central.. paid for climate results.
If the sap starts flowing earlier, you just start tapping it earlier. It should be no problem. You might find out, the getting of syrup has a longer season. A big win.
I suppose they can grow bananas in Maine instead, and harvest Maple Syrup in the Yukon Territory.
Maples grow as far south as Texas.
Just sayin.’
Sent to my Maine family now in maple glen working
Don’t you understand? More syrup means more stock to sell means lower prices to move the overstock! It’s a climate catastrophe! 🤪🙄🙂
Just because the climate changes over time doesn’t mean that such change is caused by human activity. That conclusion seems to be the product of Marxist/globalist indoctrination and is, ergo, illogical.
Their bigger problem is the pancake. Pancake consumption is way down.
Ping to you.
We do we want? Climate justice for transgender maple trees. When do we want it? Now!
I can just imagine Schumer leading a protest chant.
This is the real reason for obtaining Greenland: to secure the Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve in the face of global warming.
What a fine example of MSM Lying Propaganda.
Thanks for reminding us of these sinister lying liars and their untruths propagated by mainstream complicit news agencies.
Perhaps we could do a trade with Denmark...trade Maine for Greenland? /s
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