The Peach Crop is Ruined!

It looks like the politicians are finally taking their heads out of the sand and starting to listen to the scientists who have been warning us about global warming for some time now. Al Gore's presentation should make any non-believer change his mind.

Where I live in Illinois many fruit growers depend on the peach, apple and strawberry crops for a living. This year the peach trees bloomed and a couple of days later temperatures dropped into the low 20's F and stayed in that range for three days. Most all of the blooms and buds were frozen and now there won't be a peach crop this year. The strawberries and apple trees were also damaged by the freeze, but not quite as much.  Normally people would soon be picking and freezing strawberries however there will be few to pick this year.

My red bud and dog wood trees usually have beautiful flowers gracing their branches and all of the buds froze and we may have lost the red bud tree. All of the flowering trees suffered this spring.

Now there are reports that the honey bees are dying out. Some claim that it is due to all of the Cell Phone Towers and the frequencies that they operate at are driving the bees nuts. Then again there weren't many flowers on the fruit trees to feed the bees so they could make honey.

Ford and GM are hurting big because they didn't try to keep up with Toyota and start building hybrid automobiles. They concentrated on the building the big gas guzzling SUVs and pickup trucks that dump tons of poluting particles in the air daily. Now they are hurting bad financially. They better get their heads out of the sand also.  Just my opinions.

Rob