By Paul Homewood
Chris Morrison has more on the Bakewell Tart story:
Coffee, olive oil, bananas, you name it and someone has suggested they will soon disappear due to human-induced climate change. All easily debunked of course, but a recent piece in the Telegraph has added to this growing portfolio of nonsense with an article headlined: “Climate change ‘could kill off the traditional Bakewell tart’.” Weather-related problems in California, where 80% of almonds, a key ingredient of the delicious Bakewell, are grown are blamed, but replacement synthetic flavours are said to be available. Curiously missing from the story is the fact that almond production in California is touching record highs with the 2024 crop the third highest on record. What a great effort – climate change fear mongering combined with a plug for industrial chemical slurry being passed off as a Bakewell tart.
Highly Processed News and Highly Processed Food, all in one fake, cherry-topped package.
Written by recent graduate trainee Tim Sigsworth, the story reports that the Derbyshire delicacy is now being produced without almonds by some makers “because of supply chain problems linked to global warming”. Supplies are said to be under strain due to heat and drought episodes. In fact, water droughts are intrinsic to the climate in California, particularly in the near-desert south of the state. Overall rainfall can be patchy, with droughts alternating with plentiful precipitation that quickly fills up reservoirs. In addition, annual snow melt provides a variable but important base level. As the precipitation graph measured in annual inches shows below, the 20th and early 21st Centuries had numerous short-term droughts. However, they might be considered somewhat wet compared with the paleoclimate record over the last millennium. This reveals two mega droughts that were each well over 100 years long. Longer term records reveal that decade-long droughts are an ordinary feature of California’s climate. On the evidence available, there is scant scientific proof to link current rainfall trends to recent warming or climate change, human-caused or otherwise.
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Author: Paul Homewood
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