"A lot of the fruit that we love and that's healthy for us only grows in California," David Baldocchi of the University of California, Berkeley said. "As people try to eat healthier and healthier, we may find the things we want to eat might be going away." Baldocchi, who grew up on a farm in the Central Valley and whose cousin is a cherry farmer, said farmers are already being forced to contend with warmer winters are already impacting crops. "My cousin complains about how it's costing him all this money because he has to spray hormones on his trees to get them to break dormancy," he said. Such technological measures may work for a while, he said, but eventually the warming will become to great. "The bottom line is we need to reduce our carbon emissions," he said. "This is just a symptom of a larger, global problem." Related Links: |
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