The Results of Global Cooling for those that can't remember

From the Capitol Press

Cold slows planting, crop progress Temperatures average 4 degrees below normal in Boise area

Dave Wilkins Capital Press

Cold temperatures have delayed planting and slowed crop growth across much of Idaho this spring.

Temperatures in Boise during April averaged 4 degrees below normal, according to the National Weather Service.

This month has gotten off to a cold start too, with low temperatures on May 1 dipping to 27 degrees in the Jerome area, covering sprinkler irrigation lines in ice.

Despite the cold temperatures, reported crop damage has been minor and mostly limited to orchards in Western Idaho.

Planting of corn and small grain crops has lagged considerably behind last year's pace, according to a crop progress report released May 4 by National Agricultural Statistics Service's Idaho field office.

Statewide, planting of field corn was only 19 percent completed at the end of last week, compared with 39 percent last year, the agency reported.

Just a reminder for all the people out there who worry about the strange and bizarre ways global warming may hurt us. Cold temperatures really really hurt. They screw up food production. They freeze the poor to death. In the worst cases they can render areas unlivable.

Greenland was once green and fertile now its not. That isn't global warming at work. That is global cooling from a time when the land was more hospitable.

Crossposted at Redstate