New Jersey peach crop to be best ever.

[NNadir]

The mixture of hot weather and rain has lead for a high production of peaches of exceptional quality.

This disproves global climate change.

[jpak]

1. How's the cherry pickin' up there???

:evilgrin:

[Dead_Parrot]

14. lol... nt

[rzemanfl]

2. Huh? Shouldn't peaches be from Georgia? n/t

[NNadir]

5. New Jersey is the fourth largest producer of peaches in the nation.

http://www.agclassroom.org/kids/stats/newjersey.pdf

[calico1]

10. Doesn't most eggplant come from

NJ too? I love the blueberries from NJ too. Sweeter than the ones we get from NC.

[rzemanfl]

11. We live and learn. n/t

[China_cat]

6. Finished 2 weeks ago.

[varun]

3. And Goergia peaches...

...have taken a backseat to Florida mangoes...

what will happen to FL?

[NNadir]

7. If I lived in Florida, I'd move.

The prognosis isn't good.



I think that earlier models about global climate change have been overly optimistic and that events may happen somewhat faster than previously expected.

Katrina, I think, will be proved to have been a cakewalk.

[Dead_Parrot]

15. One thing I've noticed...

...is the increasing number of articles entitled "xxxxx xxxxing faster than predicted".

This is not good sign.

[NNadir]

17. Yeah. It's rather frightening.

Not as frightening as Yucca Mountain though.

[Dead_Parrot]

18. Now THAT is terrifying.

I cannot put into words* how much time I have spent awake at night, worrying about the hypothetical mole-men of 8000 AD tunneling past the bas-relief face of Dick Cheney and chewing on the trefoil encrusted borosilicate glass, thinking it's lasagne.



(* I always get femto- and atto- mixed up)

[eppur_se_muova]

19. It's always faster than the previous prediction ... which was faster than

the one before that ... etc. etc.

It's like some reciprocal Hofstadter's Law.

[Dead_Parrot]

22. We'd better call it Eppur's Law:

Climate change happens faster than you think, even when you take into account Eppur's Law.

[Boomer]

24. Notice that, did ya?

Me, too. In fact, it's been at least a year or two since I noticed it never went the other way. I never read a climatologist saying, "We expected blah to happen sooner, but it's actually been slower...."

Nope. It's always "Wow, blah is happening a lot faster, sooner, than we ever predicted."

Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy feeling... like green mold growing out of your pores.

[Dead_Parrot]

25. ROFL

Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy feeling... like green mold growing out of your pores.

I'll have to remember that one!

I suspect we'll hit a sort of environmental news event horizon, when all the headlines have "faster than predicted" at the end, and we have to start recursing it:

"Glaciers melting even faster than we thought they were melting when we said they melting faster than we predicted they were going to melt."

Followed closely by:

"Glaciers melted even faster than we said that they were melting when we said they were melting faster than we thought they were melting when we thought they were melting faster than we predicted that they were going to melt."

One problem with that is, you can't fit much article after it - although a lot of us may well be dead by then, so complains should be minimal.

And yes, I am aware I might be loosing my marbles. Faster than predicted.

Edit: The alternative is to make the newspapers bigger to fit the headlines in, which will increase deforestation and cause the glaciers to melt quicker.

Ow, my brain hurts. Bugger it, let's get extinct.

[Boomer]

26. Loosing your marbles is dangerous

People might skid on them, rolling loose on the floor like that.

If you lose them, though, there'll be a lot fewer accidents. Not that you'll notice, since you'll be babbling insanely in a corner by then.

:evilgrin:

Boomer, Grammar Police Officer in good standing (which is not to be confused with good posture, or good pasture, for that matter)

Damn, but it's hot tonight....

[Dead_Parrot]

27. lol... nt

[bananas]

8. Cuban cigars? nt

[northzax]

9. nah, that's Connecticut

already a big tobacco leaf crop, maybe the next big thing!

[calico1]

4. I must agree.

I have been buying peaches from New Jersey and they've been great!

[orwell]

12. Huh?

This disproves global climate change."

Argumentum ad logicam...

[NNadir]

13. What? A logical fallacy? Here at DU?

Global climate change is unpleasant. A good peach is very pleasant. I had a wonderful peach today. Therefore global climate change does not exist.

QED.

[Dead_Parrot]

16. We never have fallacies here

This being the exception that proves the rule.

[eppur_se_muova]

20. But can NJ peach cobbler compare to the genuine Southern article?

If not, those peaches are just wasted. :P

[NNadir]

21. In Georgia, when they want a cobbler, they import New Jersey peaches

to make it.

[eppur_se_muova]

23. NOT! I used to live in the next county to Peach Co., GA ...

There are roadside stands every 1/4 mile or so, for miles ... selling fresh peaches (and pecans) and giving out free samples of peach ice cream, and sometimes cobbler too ... ooh, I could use some of that right now ... mmmm... peach ice cream ... mmm ... what were we discussing again?

Anyway, maybe Philly buys your peaches. :evilgrin:

[NNadir]

28. Well, we do eat a lot of our peaches around here.

I don't know how many we have left over to send to Georgia.

It's just as well. We don't want to embarrass the Georgians.

[eppur_se_muova]

31. Oh, don't worry about embarassing Georgians ...

are you familiar with their Guv'nor?

[NNadir]

32. Not really.

Is he or she a card?

[Nihil]

29. Wow!

You put shoes on peaches over there?

:P

[dcfirefighter]

30. NJ Farms are among the highest yielding ($/ac) in the nation

In no small part due to the relatively heavy property tax on NJ farms.
When you drive through southern NJ you see orchards and nurseries, and other high value density farm operations, whereas when you drive through MD/DE/PA you see subsidized corn and soy.

When you tax something that won't go away, you use it more efficiently.

Now, if NJ would just repeal the portion of it's property tax that falls on improvements ...