41.3912° N, 74.3118° W
This is the longetude and latitude of Vermont.
44.5588° N, 72.5778° W
Basically what I am saying is that things are always hot at the equator. The equator receives the rays of the sun more frequently and hotter than any other place on Earth. The poles receive the least. As a matter of fact, the poles have days of complete light and complete darkness, so Earth there has a cooling period. If one applies that understanding to the climate crisis, global warming if you will, that means the lower latitudes will have seasonal change due to warming earlier than higher latitudes. It is uncertain to say Vermont will eventually experience the climate crisis the same as Orange County, but, there will be some degree of seasonal change and that will serve as a tipping point.
March 7, 2020By Emma Newburger
The Green Mountain (click here) state posted a total production this year of 1.99 million gallons of syrup -- that's more than three gallons of maple syrup for every person in the state. And Vermont's yield per tap was .410 gallons, way ahead of the rest of the field. (For comparison, #2 in yield per tap was Maine at .363 and New York's was "just" .281.)
Orange County - Dana Putnam (click here) drilled into a maple tree, added a plastic tube and waited for the sap to flow.
Nothing happened.
It’s the end of winter — prime tree-tapping time for New York maple farmers. But for Putnam, a fourth-generation maple farmer, last week was too hot for the trees to properly freeze, thaw and produce sap.
After weeks of experiencing hotter temperatures, Putnam is anxious his season will end early. And he’s only collected half of the crop yield he says he should already have at this point.
“If we don’t harvest enough syrup, we’ll have to buy it. That changes our cost structure entirely,” Putnam said. “I think about climate change and whether or not this maple business will be viable in a decade — it might not be.”
Maple trees won’t produce sap unless they undergo freezing and thawing cycles. But in New York this winter, there’s been no snow or frost on the ground as climate change accelerates. The hotter temperatures have made it harder for farmers to pull sap from the trees and threaten to end the production season early....
The Process (click here)
