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Default USDA changed the Hardiness Zones

On Feb 12, 5:06*pm, Michel Boucher > wrote:
> Doug Freyburger > wrote :
>
> >> Regardless of whether humans caused or are speeding global
> >> warming, it seems obvious that the question we ought to be
> >> asking is what can we do about it, if anything.
> >> Finger-pointing is a waste of time.

>
> > If global warming is a bad thing in the first place that is.
> > That point seems ignored.

>
> Well sure. *We could always make hay with desertification of
> currently fertile areas and the reduction of the size of cattle
> not to mention the changes in human size and overall reduction of
> food supplies. *And that's just the tip of what used to be the
> iceberg.
>
> Flooding of low-lying areas, malnutrition, increase in diseases,
> ground-level ozone, loss of drinking water supplies, extreme
> weather events, just to name a few.


You'd love to have an orange grove behind the house, right? Save on
the long trip to Florida every winter.