From the UK Independent
‘Farmers are used to dealing with fluctuations in the weather but if we have two or three extreme years in a row it has the potential to put growers out of business’
- Josh Gabbatiss Science Correspondent @josh_gabbatiss
The potato snack was left an inch (2.5cm) shorter on average in 2018 after extreme heatwaves robbed them of much-needed water over the summer months.
This was one of the many changes catalogued in a new analysis by the Climate Coalition network and scientists at the University of Leeds.
They explored how rising global temperatures and associated extremes are likely to impact crop production and make British-grown produce harder to find.
Analysis conducted in the wake of last summer’s heatwaves by the Met Office found the event was made 30 times more likely by climate change.
Potato yields were slashed by a fifth in England and Wales in 2018, while carrot production fell by up to 30 per cent and onions by 40 per cent.
At the other end of the weather spectrum, more than half of UK farmers reported being affected by severe flooding or storms over the past 10 years.
The intensity of winter rainfall has gradually been creeping up in recent decades, as the changing climate tampers with weather systems and increases the chances of major downpours.
HT/Willie Soon
I’m sure British farmers will adjust just fine
But do McDonald’s even use whole potatoes? To the best of my knowledge/experience, the fries are made from reconstituted potato. They certainly seem like it. Either way, who cares?
Wow, who knew the modern world was so incredibly inept and uneducated they can’t deal with weather. Thank you, AGW lovers, for pointing out humans are devolving and will soon lose their speech and language at this rate. I suppose global warming caused that devolution…..
I’d just like to put on record that, whatever their length, these are good old British chips and not French fries (not some sort of potato matchstick!). Proper chunky chips!
So what do you personally call actual potato chips? Fries?
Good god…you can go back as far as written records exist and find farmers worried about weather (or changes in climate). Nothing new here, time to move on to some of the many real issues that exist in our world rather than a phoney political campaign to steal our wealth and freedom via scare tactics based on hysterical fears about weather.
This is, as a matter of fact, probably the first time in history when libtards are more ‘worried’* about weather than farmers.
(*) They are not worried for the farmer’s troubles — libtards hate ‘deplorable’ farmers.
With regard to elevated CO2 (eCO2) there are some curiosities for the generic potato. The early (1990s) finding was that eCO2 produced more tubers per plant, not bigger tubers; whether this has been contradicted by more recent experiments I do not know.
The potato tuber’s pest defense molecule glyco-alkaloid is apparently affected variably by eCO2; some potato varieties tested seem to have increased glyco-alkaloid content more so than others. I do not know if some experimental potato varieties actually see alyco-alkaloid decrease; if so they will be less tasty, but also less “toxic”.
eCO2 yields potato tubers with more sugar & starch; while the % of citrate is reduced (diluted) & thus to humans the taste will be better. However, the increased soluble sugar content can form more acryl-amide (undesirable) when potatoes are fried.
Yield in a recent meta-analysis for eCO2 grown potato showed an average of 13.9% increase. And, since often a subject of interest, under eCO2 there was an average 13% decrease in protein; as well as several mineral decreases (ex: average decrease zinc =10.7%).
and you thought the end of the droughts in the nh is nigh?
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For the British, chips are not “a snack”, they are a main course item.
Amazing!
Alarmists feigning rocket science have noticed that farmers have extremely risky livelihoods.
If they actually visited farmers who have been in business decades, they would learn that farmers, who depend upon one crop only, are quickest to fail when a crop fails in successive years.
Smart farmers try to balance their cropland and crops to service different markets over different harvest seasons.
e.g. The farm where I worked occasionally:
Primary product, milk.
* Excess cows and calves were sold at auction.
Ancillary products supporting dairy cows:
* Dry baled meadow grass,
* Dry baled timothy,
* Dry baled hay,
* Corn, primarily dry field corn,
* acres were set aside for growing fresh corn. The fresh corn was sold at a roadside stand the entire fresh corn season.
Any crops in excess of what he needed for winter feed were sold. Preferably later in the season when demand peaked.
Secondary crops:
* Alfalfa, rye and soy beans.
* All three of these were planted in fallow fields to improve the soils.
Some of the alfalfa was baled to feed his cows over the winter; the remainder and all of the rye and soy beans were sold.
* This farmer specialized in raising wheat for the seed market. Preparations each year required that he turn over the soil until weeds no longer sprouted.
Tertiary crops:
* A large vegetable garden for feeding his family.
All cattle and plant wastes were tilled under.
I expect that most British citizens would be ashamed to have their researchers announce such levels of oblivious ignorance. All in search of something frightening enough to promote their religious beliefs and green funds dependency.
That looks like a bowl of frozen processed chips to me.
I grew a lot of Maris piper potatoes in my back garden in 2004 I followed the instructions that I was given and left trenches between the rows of potatoes for the water to drain and kept watering them frequently and I got a lot of which I was using for a long time after I had harvested them because they did not sprout after a week or so like the potatoes which you buy in the shop they also tasted much better. I noticed that all the farms that I passed while most uncultivated areas looked parched they were constantly watering the crops.
It’s a complete lie and I have empirical evidence. I have just opened a pack of McCain Chunky Home chips, which are expensive, so I only buy them about once a year when they are on offer. The first thing I noticed was that they are on average significantly longer than the ones I bought a year earlier. This is something very important to me because I love my chips as long as possible, phallic symbolism perhaps? McCain Chunky Home chips do not lie. I therefore believe this report was commissioned by the Potato Marketing Board to justify shrinkflation.
This is an absolute disaster. We’re doomed.
“The intensity of winter rainfall has gradually been creeping up in recent decades,”
___________________________________________________
No. The 2019 winter climate is unprecedented in weather records.
and has nothing to do with Climate Change.
Because climate changes every single day every single minute every single second every single “not foreseen split second”.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
“The intensity of winter rainfall has gradually been creeping up in recent decades,”
___________________________________________________
No. The 2019 winter climate is unprecedented in weather records.
and has nothing to do with Climate Change.
Because climate changes every single day every single minute every single second every single “not foreseen split second”.
Move along. Nothing to see here. Now.
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I live just to the north of Glasgow in Scotland. Last year I grew potatoes in my own garden. I had a very good crip, thank you very much. One of the best in recent years.
everything in the supermarket is shrinking chocolate cereal biscuits ice cream etc
cadbury reducing its size it is not news whats next will global warming be next https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/cadbury-to-reduce-the-size-of-its-chocolate-bars/news-story/601eca5010a1d2ef91ea3bdc0689886a
If it rains sometimes and it doesn’t rain other times that’s *weather*, not climate!