Florida freeze losses to top hundreds of millions of dollars

6:41 P.M. — TALLAHASSEE — Agricultural losses from the latest freezes could easily top hundreds of millions of dollars, a state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
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The freeze was unprecedented, not for its low temperatures, but its duration, Bournique said. Growers recorded below freezing temperatures for 13 days in some parts of the state.

“Nobody alive has ever lived through something like this, and I’m talking everyone from the research scientists to the growers,” Bournique said. “Nobody is really sure what that length of a freeze will do to a citrus tree.”

Florida plants and gardens are brown and crispy after the cold - St. Petersburg Times

Oh, the humanity!

In the grim bloodbath that was Florida vs. Cold, Florida lay gasping in a pathetic shambles. Drive around, look out your window, sniff the putrid burn, and you'll know the carnage.

State scales back fishing after cold takes toll | HeraldTribune.com

[Lee Schlesinger, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission] said the die-off has been compared most frequently to the big freeze of 1977, one of the worst cold-related fish kills in state history.

Winter Hardiness Becomes Key OSR Growing Consideration

Winter hardiness is something UK oilseed rape growers need to think far more about as they endure their second particularly harsh winter in a row, believes a leading Scottish adviser.

Lorne Gunter: First Climategate, now Glaciergate

That's two IPCC reports in a row that have featured later-discredited "proofs" of manmade global warming.

Add to that the fact that many of the emails released in Climategate reveal discussions by leading IPCC scientists about how to exclude dissidents and skeptics from the body's report-writing processes and you begin to get a glimpse of how contrived and one-sided the UN's climate investigations have been.

You also get to see how the "settled" science behind climate change alarmism was arrived at -- not by scientific consensus, but rather by manipulation, misrepresentation and strong-arming.