Argentina reveals lemon frost damage results | Fresh Fruit Portal

Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) has announced 110,000 metric tons (MT) of lemons would be lost from this year’s crop due to frost damages, website Lagaceta.com.ar reported.
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The result means the world’s largest lemon-growing province has lost around 9.2% of its expected crop this year, with a revised forecast of around 1.09 million MT.

Torres Leal said the damages were caused by not just the frosts but their duration, damaging adult plants, new shoots, seedlings, sprouts, causing fruit development problems and in some cases killing the plants, the story reported.

BACHMANN ON EXPERIENCE: "I HAVE A LIFETIME RECORD OF SUCCESS AND ACTION IN THE REAL WORLD" - TheCypressTimes

[Bachmann] I fought cap-and-trade. Governor Pawlenty backed cap-and-trade when he was Governor of Minnesota and put Minnesota into the multi-state Midwest Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord.

Holmes: The new normal: Hot - Framingham, MA - The MetroWest Daily News

One high emissions scenario I've seen projects that by the end of this century, the climate in Massachusetts will resemble the current climate of South Carolina. As I write this, it feels like we're already there.
...I wonder how many Americans have to die before Washington decides it's time to stop talking about the weather and start doing something about it.

Flashback: Economists: extreme cold weather costly, deadly

BERKELEY -- Fatalities in the continental United States tend to climb for several weeks after severe cold spells, ultimately numbering 360 per chilly day and 14,380 per year, according to a new study co-authored by a University of California, Berkeley, economist.

Deaths linked to extreme cold account for 0.8 percent of the nation's annual death rate and outnumber those attributed to leukemia, murder and chronic liver disease combined, the study reports.