Urban shoppers willing to pay a premium for meat they deem safe and natural means business “has actually blossomed in the tough economic times," he says.
"Really, we're in a dark room just feeling our way around here," Sayles adds, before heading back out into the wind-swept fall afternoon on the edge of the Great Plains. "But you've got to get out of your comfort zone and try new things, especially now."
This article originally appeared at The Daily Climate, the climate change news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.
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Add CommentThe premise of the article by Susan Moran seems to be completely untruthful. If you look at the data attached you will notice a VERY slight reduction in the annual average rainfall and you will notice that there have always been wide variations in the annual rainfall.
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Unfortunately too many people in the US don't believe in global warming and too many that do believe that it will be sudden. I find it fascinating that the UK, which is if I remember correctly, is far more urbanised has more people observing the subtle changes.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisi Am thinking about this post.is it true or false?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisSisko, I think you misunderstood the point. Re-read this sentence from the article:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this"What climate scientists really tell us is not so much that it'll be drier and hotter…as it'll be dramatically more variable."
The data you provide about annual precipitation does not provide the entire story. Variations in rainfall also happen within a growing season. If it's dry most of the growing season, then there is a large storm that seems to "make up" for the dry spell (as in annual rainfall), that's wasted water. It typically just runs off. That was the case this year in the midwest. What is needed is smaller regular rains, not dry spells followed by a deluge.
Sisko,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIf only Colorado was involved in the drought....you might have a point about something. 80% of the country was effected?
Crop conditions were quite bad this past summer, though climate change deniers were in full-on denial mode.
Take the corn crop for example. The last USDA crop I collected (week ending Aug 26, 2012) reported the following crop conditions (%) for 18 states (92% of the corn came from these states in 2011):
very poor poor fair good excellent
2012 26 26 26 19 3
2011* 7 12 27 42 12
* the 2011 numbers for at the same point in the year as the 2012 numbers.
See any difference. Most climate change deniers can't see the difference.
Yes, there is variability in temperature, humidity and precipitation year-to-year. As this article states, expect even more variability in the future. Did you not read the article?
"But scientists agree that climate change will up the ante considerably by bringing more extreme weather gyrations – searing drought one year, followed by torrential storms that can wash away cracked soil and destroy crops rather than quench their thirst."
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThis comment seemed to fly-in-the-face of a decade-long 2001-2011 period of cooling. Granted, 2012 was vastly hotter, on average, the Met had to admit that the trendline from 1997-2012, showed that Global Warming stopped 16 years ago’ aka ‘the pause’,
http://bit.ly/109dyJx
Where will the first food riots in 2013 happen? I am thinking Egypt.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisA) Extremes of rainfall have not a great deal to do with cooling.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisB) What cooling? Please give us something better than a the BS of a x-weatherman without a college degree, who finally did manage to publish some work, only that work refuted his own position on the UHI effect. Seriously, what cooling?
<This comment seemed to fly-in-the-face of a decade-long 2001-2011 period of cooling.>
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYour comment flies in the face of ALL and ANY evidence as those ten years contained the nine hottest years since the mid 1800s when modern climate records +/- began.
It is rare to read anything that is in the face of all validated research and a general acceptance of the facts as clearly wrong as this, presented with the selfconfidence generally only known from comments showing an exceptionally obvious ignorance of the subject. Or from professional shills.
At worst you should have first searched for "climate change hottest years", it would have saved you the beans. As is you spilled them unretrievably.