I was just astonished at fruit prices this morning at the local grocer. The clerk explained to me that all the prices of regionally grown fruit are going up up up, and it is likely to get worse. Why is this? We had a freeze in April. In April, in the Deep South! It seems that the entire peach and apple crops were wiped out, and people are in a panic about it all. Everyone gathered around the cash register agreed that we could use a bit more of this legendary “global warming.”
Yes, I know that we are supposed to dismiss this kind of folklore as unscientific, though I can’t entirely remember why it is supposed to be irrelevant. No one around here can remember a freeze this late in the season, and certainly the farmers didn’t expect it. Whatever can be said about global temperatures in 100 years, this latest freeze was neither expected nor desired.
