Sorry, Google News, Blueberry Harvests Keep Setting Records Amidst Modest Warming
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
April 28, 2021 0
Among its top search results today for “climate change,” Google News is promoting a story published by AZO CleanTech claiming global warming threatens blueberry harvests in Maine. However, data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture show blueberry production and yields in Maine, in the United States, and throughout the world have set records over the past few decades.
Record harvests have also been regularly set in the United States and Maine. Wild blueberry harvests in Maine track blueberry prices not rainfall patterns. Data show, as a general rule, harvests fall after sharp price declines, and increase following price increases.
The AZO CleanTech story, titled “Wild Blueberry Fields in Down East Maine are Warming Faster than Previously Thought,” cites a new study by researchers from the University of Maine discussing the impacts of climate change on temperatures and moisture in the Down East region of Maine, and the effects they have had on Maine’s wild blueberry harvests over the past four decades.
https://climaterealism.com/2021/04/sorry-google-news-blueberry-harvests-keep-setting-records-amidst-modest-warming/
