The hidden cost of global warming

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Let's see how sanguine the Junta is about global warming when * can't get real maple syrup anymore!

Warmer world puts squeeze on U.S. maple syrup

LUDLOW, Vermont (Reuters) - In the seasonal rhythm of New England, March marks the start of sugar season, when farmers tap thawing maple trees for their sap. But some worry that a warming climate is endangering their future.

Long skeptical of claims that the planet is warming as a result of human activity -- the release of greenhouse gases through the burning of fossil fuels -- syrup-maker Doug Rose said he's started to wonder.

"I've always been, 'Oh, global warming, I don't know about that.' But now I do think we need to start thinking about it, because we are seeing changes," Rose said in an interview at Green Mountain Sugar House in Ludlow, a rustic Vermont town settled in 1761.

"We're seeing production go down, we really are."

The full story can be read at http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070323/us_nm/climate_maplesyrup_dc