Monday, February 14, 2011

Cold Weather Brings New Agro-Crises to Mexico
February's freezing fury has left a path of crumpled crops, pummeled harvests and dashed dreams in the countryside of northern Mexico. Hardest hit was the northwestern state of Sinaloa, known as the "Bread Basket of Mexico," where about 750,000 acres of corn crops were reportedly destroyed after unusually cold temperatures blanketed the north of the country in January and early February.
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As was the case with previous media coverage of the extreme cold that whipped the dithers out of northern Mexico this winter, virtually no mention was made in the latest round of news reports on any possible links between human-caused climate change and the present disaster.

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