Cold strikes Argentina's blueberries | The Packer

A chill has been blowing through Argentina’s blueberry industry the last couple of years, and this season may be worse yet, according to suppliers.

“This past August has been the coldest August in history for Concordia and Tucuman (Argentina’s two earliest blueberry regions),” said Ulises Sabato, owner of Blueberries SA in Concordia and partner in Fresh Results LLC in Weston, Fla. “We had 25 frost controls during the month, between mid-July to the end of August. That’s a huge number.”
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“It actually snowed 4 to 5 inches in Tucuman — that’s like snow in Miami,” Sabato said. “I don’t think it ever snowed there before.”

CTV Calgary- Delay in harvest of Alberta crops - CTV News

Southern Alberta farmers are delayed in harvesting this year's fall crops because of persistent cool, wet weather.

Crops are behind by almost four weeks, putting them at greater risk for frost damage.

Thomas Elias: Prop. 23: strongest effort yet at climate change denial - Press-Telegram

It's common among deniers to say no one has proven all this has anything to do with modern civilization and its production of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2). But even if there were really no proof - and the vast majority of the world's leading climate scientists has repeatedly said evidence abounds - doing what we can to avoid making things worse would still be the responsible thing to do.