Posted on 11/01/2018 7:33:10 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MADISON, Wis. - Halloween weather can vary dramatically from year-to-year across southern Wisconsin.
Because of climate change, Octobers are warming for much of the country. That includes right here in Wisconsin. Since 1970, October temperatures have climbed by an average of 2.3 degrees in Madison. A warming October not only brings concerns locally, but across the country and across the world.
Climate change has scary consequences for trick-or-treaters, too. Supplies of chocolate, the backbone of Halloween, are at risk from rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns. Areas of West Africa, which support a majority of the world’s cacao trees, could lose up to 40 percent of their suitable land by 2050. Pumpkin harvests can also suffer from heavy rain, which is getting heavier as the climate warms. In 2015, record rains in Illinois (which produces over 90 percent of the country’s processed pumpkins) reduced pumpkin yields by over 50 percent. Even the nation’s costume industry, which generates over $2 billion each year, could be affected. With warmer evenings, trick-or-treaters may be more reluctant to step into those toasty Darth Vader suits.
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Brian is on Droogs.
Did we have a hurricane this Halloween? I just had a short outing with my sons that started at 61 degrees Fahrenheit and ended at 56. Valley Forge Pennsylvania.
Scary?! Heck, a couple degrees warmer is great news! Too bad these are more likely annual variations as next year it is just as likely to be snowing.
Now they’re saying the oceans are absorbing too much heat and all the little creatures there will die from lack of oxygen unless we do some thing within a year ,OMG \o/ RUN
People who do not know science once again conflate Weather with Climate.
Well, when you’re trick-or-treating in Fargo, this is welcome news.
We need to start playing their little game.
The headline “Climate change has scary consequences for abortion” would really get them lathered up.
Right on schedule.
Your daily dose of the latest disaster that most assuredly will come discovered by journalists who believe the “settled science” coming from the group that has already been proven to alter data, and which has NEVER produced a model that lived up to its predictions.
They just make stuff up that'll happen way in the future.
Can’t wait for the inevitable scares on the climate change threats to Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Climate change. Been occurring since the beginning of time but liberals are going to do something about it now!
Bad news for dentists.
Purported 0.02°C change per year.
Change vanishingly smaller than standard deviation isn’t significant.
The bible says there is no climate change but the end is coming.
Hurricane “Red” due to land 11/6.
Turkeys won't have enough food because all of the crops will be burned up by climate change. There won't be ANY snow ANYWHERE for Christmas because of global warming.
Just wait, some "expert" will start spewing this tripe.
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