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Originally Posted by Slartibartfas
Climate is NOT about records. Its about long term averages.
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Try convincing those who are suffering temperatures that are breaking 100 year cold record readings, 100,000 of jobs lost and over $1 billion in citrus are destroyed.
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Citrus freeze leaves thousands in California out of work
Jan 18, 2007
SANGER, Calif. (AP) -- The deep freeze that has destroyed some $1 billion worth of California citrus could also mean months of unemployment for thousands of farmworkers, packers and truck drivers during what is already a lean season for those who work in agriculture, industry officials say. The bad news was already trickling in Wednesday at Harris Farms, a 7,000-acre operation about 25 miles east of Fresno.
"All of my sisters-in-law, my mother-in-law and my brother-in-law just got laid off from the packing sheds," said Valentino Mexicano, a ranch hand whose family of five lives in nearby Sanger. He and other members of the farm's night crew were just getting off a 15-hour shift monitoring miles of orange and lemon trees.
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While you may need some 'long term average' to prove your Political Weather Agenda for Environ
mental Justice, there are going to be higher prices for fruit, thousand out of work, devastated crops that have no value, and losses that continue to pile up all thanks to psuedo Global Warming.
Would someone turn on the heat already? I thought that humans supposedly controlled the weather.