Frost ruins crops | Australia

FROST boils the beans and frost, like the Gympie region had yesterday morning, definitely left an impression with local growers.

Local bean and pea grower Shane Waugh said his beans would go black and turn to mush today, after he found them covered in frost Friday morning.

His ¾ acre plot of beans - the last for the season - was completely destroyed and he lost about $6000.
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Mr Waugh, who has had 11 years farming experience, said he didn't expect frost like Friday's event until July.
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“You sort of know where the frost line is - a lot of people probably got caught; this year it was four weeks early. It's the third year in a row,” he said. “First it was too much rain, then last year frost, now this.”

[Hockey Team Resurfaces:]  Climate (Communication) Crisis? - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

If the science pointing to a rising risk of dangerous human interference with climate is settled, the thinking goes, then why aren’t people and the world’s nations galvanized? Maybe it’s a language problem? This reflects an ongoing exploration here.

As Seed Magazine put it last month, “Is there a better word for doom?” The magazine asked six people to weigh in on how different frames or approaches to climate communication might break through. They were the geoscientist Michael E. Mann; Ann Kinzig, an ecologist; Clark A. Miller, a political scientist; Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist; Robert Henson, a meteorologist and science writer; and Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor.

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Pachauri told CNN that developed countries would be best advised to lead by example and promise specific cuts of their own.
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"If you just keep pushing the Chinese that they've got to make some kind of a commitment for cuts or reductions in emissions intensity, you're not going to get anywhere," he added.