CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL DEAL FOR AG
Fresno Bee
May 8, 2022
I have noticed that, whenever a letter writer or the author of an op-ed cites concerns about climate change, there is inevitably a large number of people who leave comments on The Bee web page for the letter or op-ed, saying something to the effect of “why should we worry about possible future problems.”
I can only assume that these same commenters have failed to notice that California has begun to experience yearly record-breaking fire seasons, that they are unaware of aquifers in Florida no longer useable due to saltwater intrusion from warming seas, that they are unaware of massive drought and famine now occurring routinely in South America and the Middle East, and that they have failed to notice that what had long been described, with reason, as once-a-century floods are now routinely hitting the Midwestern U.S. and Europe. Indeed, last year alone, multiple locations in normally frigid parts of Canada experienced hotter weather than Fresno...truly odd.
Climate change is not a “possible future” problem, it is here now and is impacting agricultural yields, something that should be of concern to an agricultural region like our home. We cannot keep sticking our heads in the sand.
Matthew Armstrong, Fresno
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article261148912.html
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