Alternative Energy Storage for Global Warming Agnostics - Seeking Alpha

I’m a global warming agnostic. I’m perfectly willing to accept man made global warming as fact if the science is ever proven and equally willing to accept the possibility that global warming is a tempest in a teapot like the Y2K bug that drove billions in IT spending in the late ‘90s and had me stockpiling toilet paper and buying gold coins. It seems silly in 20/20 hindsight, but the fear was real at the time. It also taught me an important lesson: Investment advisors and politicians are not the only ones who spurn the vulgar exigencies of objective truth in an effort to enhance their reputations and fortunes. Evangelical environmentalists do it too!

If you read this carefully, you might think it's no warmer in the Florida panhandle today than it was a century ago

By 1911, roughly 1 million "Owari" satsuma trees had been imported from Japan and planted throughout the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas.

According to industry historians, Jackson County was known as the "Satsuma Capital of the World" in the early 1900s. Satsuma, Ala., just north of Mobile, was named after the fruit in 1915. At the industry's peak, there were about 3,000 acres of satsumas in the Panhandle alone. Freezes, including a bad one in 1935, wiped out the business.
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The decision to add citrus was based in part on its history in the area, and new techniques in freeze prevention developed by UF and Auburn University. Glass has installed wells and an irrigation system that actually sprays water on the trees as the temperature falls. The resulting ice insulates the tree from the damaging colder temperatures.