Alachua County, Florida: March frost takes out peach crop

A 17-degree frost in March destroyed Franklin’s 250-peach-tree crop, costing her business thousands of dollars in sales and delaying her and her husband, Chuck, from opening the orchard to the U-Pick crowd that the farm thrives on.

“That frost killed every peach I had,” Franklin said. “Once they are frozen, the budding fruits turn black in a couple days, and then there goes my harvest.”

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council promotes the greatest scientific fraud of all time

Finally, I asked Dr. Hershkowitz to share his thoughts about those who still insist that global climate change is some sort of hoax. His answer left little room for doubt.

"There is no validated, peer-reviewed scientific article that says global warming is a myth. Not one. More than 200 countries committed 2,000 scientists to a research endeavor overseen by the United Nations to investigate the issue of climate change. They've issued a consensus that global warming is real and humans are the primary cause. For that they won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago. There are questions about the relative contributions from different causes. It's clear that the dominant causes are human activities. There's an uncertainly about the consequences because climate is a difficult thing to predict. There's a lot of discussion about remedies, but as for the reality of global warming and the fact that we have to act, there's no scientists telling you that it's not happening. If they are, they haven't published their work in any peer-reviewed study that I know of. Even Exxon-Mobile has withdrawn support for global warming deniers. They were behind some of the mis-information under the previous administration, but even Exxon has backed away from that now. Even Exxon is looking for solutions."

HOOPSWORLD would like to thank Dr. Allen Hershkowitz of the Natural Resources Defense Council for his time and contributions to our own participation in the NBA's Green Week initiative.

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