Friday, September 28, 2012

Changing Calif. climate a threat to crops

San Francisco Chronicle: Farmers have always been gamblers, long accustomed to betting on the probabilities of the weather. But for the Napa Valley, where temperatures have been ideal for the wine industry, shifts in the Earth's climate could be a game-changer. "They're used to rolling the dice every year," said Stuart Weiss, a conservation biologist and chief scientist at the Creekside Center for Earth Observation in Menlo Park, which assists growers and municipalities dealing with the disruptions caused by the changing...

URL: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Changing-Calif-climate-a-threat-to-crops-3901021.php
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