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 ...
I won’t click on the link,of course. But the excerpt did give me a chuckle.
Find a story like this and substitute “God” for “Climate Change” and just wait for the ridicule and condemnation from the left.
How so?
Wimpy is sweating, too.
Oh not the olive oil!
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.
Climate change has human-like fingerprints? Who knew?
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.
“You won a hundred and twenty samoleans?”
“Because I say so”
that’s science these days.
Uk uk uk uk uk
LOL!
My version of refusing to visit a fake news/ignorance-is-bliss internet link...
REJECTED!
Global warming hysteria.
Moving right along...
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.”
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.
No point getting the 50-year-old snowflakes' panties in a bunch...
Just substitute "Mother Nature" for "God..."
World Weather Attribution
Activists masquerading as scientists.
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.
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