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How Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers)
New York Times ^ | October 24, 2017 | By SOMINI SENGUPTA

Posted on 10/24/2017 10:35:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

TREVI, Italy — It was in June, the time of year when the first olives normally burst from their blossoms in the mild warmth of early summer, when Irene Guidobaldi walked through her groves in blistering heat and watched in horror as the flowers on her trees began to wither and fall.

The only way to save her family’s precious orchard in the hills of Umbria was to buy the most precious thing of all in this summer of drought: water.

Lots and lots of water.

And so, Ms. Guidobaldi, an eighth-generation olive grower, bought water by the truckload, nearly every day, for most of the summer.

The heat wave that swept across southern Europe this summer, which scientists say bore the fingerprints of human-induced climate change, is only the latest bout of strange weather to befall the makers of olive oil.

Gone are the days when you could count on the mild “mezze stagioni,” or half-seasons, that olives rely on before and after the heat. Gone, too, is the cycle you could count on: one year good, next year not good.

Scientists with the World Weather Attribution program, a group dedicated to the study of extreme weather, concluded last month that the “the chances of seeing a summer as hot as 2017” had increased tenfold since the early 1900s, and the chances of a heat wave like the one that hit the region for three days in August, nicknamed Lucifer, had risen by four times.

“We found a very clear global warming fossil fuel fingerprint,” said Heidi Cullen, a climatologist who heads the program.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechangefraud; fakescience; globalwarming; hoax; journalism; oliveoil; socialism
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1 posted on 10/24/2017 10:35:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I won’t click on the link,of course. But the excerpt did give me a chuckle.


2 posted on 10/24/2017 10:39:52 AM PDT by Blennos ( As)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Find a story like this and substitute “God” for “Climate Change” and just wait for the ridicule and condemnation from the left.


3 posted on 10/24/2017 10:40:02 AM PDT by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

4 posted on 10/24/2017 10:40:03 AM PDT 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: Oldeconomybuyer
which scientists say bore the fingerprints of human-induced climate change

How so?

5 posted on 10/24/2017 10:40:29 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wimpy is sweating, too.


6 posted on 10/24/2017 10:40:48 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Oh not the olive oil!


7 posted on 10/24/2017 10:40:49 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes, it was the first summer in 10,000 years for a drought in this part of Italy. //sarcasm off

Most Italian farmers over 70 years old will tell you that they have one of these summers about every dozen years...some worse than others.

It’s just more fake news by fake journalists/scientists.


8 posted on 10/24/2017 10:41:17 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: AU72

Climate change has human-like fingerprints? Who knew?


9 posted on 10/24/2017 10:42:07 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In California, our oil is as good as any in the world. Better than many.

We irrigate our trees here and do not anticipate anything but growth in production.

Doubling about every 7 years.


10 posted on 10/24/2017 10:43:22 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“You won a hundred and twenty samoleans?”


11 posted on 10/24/2017 10:44:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed, can you George?)
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To: AU72

“Because I say so”

that’s science these days.


12 posted on 10/24/2017 10:45:27 AM PDT by Pelham (Liberate California. Deport Mexico Now)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Climate change, Olivsk.

Uk uk uk uk uk

13 posted on 10/24/2017 10:47:19 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: Blennos
I won’t click on the link,of course. But the excerpt did give me a chuckle.

LOL!
My version of refusing to visit a fake news/ignorance-is-bliss internet link...

REJECTED!
Global warming hysteria.

Moving right along...

14 posted on 10/24/2017 10:55:05 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, the famous “dust bowl” years were what exactly? Irtish potato famine? Heck Pharaoh’s drought in the Joseph story in Genesis?

All AGW???

There already was an extremely scientific word for these events that has been known for centuries.

“Weather.”


15 posted on 10/24/2017 10:55:08 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (Every Californian who supported "sanctuary state" has blood and ashes on his/her hands)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I regularly buy olive oil and I’ve seen no significant price increase. I can guarantee that demand is not down therefore the supply is not down either. This is an absolute.


16 posted on 10/24/2017 10:55:58 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: libertylover
Find a story like this and substitute “God” for “Climate Change” and just wait for the ridicule and condemnation from the left.

No point getting the 50-year-old snowflakes' panties in a bunch...

Just substitute "Mother Nature" for "God..."

17 posted on 10/24/2017 11:01:09 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: publius911

18 posted on 10/24/2017 11:05:44 AM PDT by publius911 (Seriously??)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

World Weather Attribution

Activists masquerading as scientists.


19 posted on 10/24/2017 11:14:00 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

fossil fuel fingerprint - is that like dinosaur foot prints and petrified poop?

seriously, heat waves, draughts, plagues etc have been around for thousands of years at least.


20 posted on 10/24/2017 11:17:59 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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