#Vermont: State officials inspect flooded farms as growers grapple with #CropLoss

by Hailey Morgan
Published: Jul. 24, 2023 at 5:42 AM EDT

"ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont lost nearly 10,000 acres of #crops-- with likely more to be discovered-- after the flooding two weeks ago. State leaders say farmers also reported losing poultry in the flooding. But farmers across the state are now grappling with the overall impact the flood had on their bottom line and what it could mean for the fall harvest.

"Monday, state and federal leaders toured the damage. 'A lot of stuff is injured,' said Paul Mazza of Paul Mazza Fruit and Vegetable.

"Mazza owns hundreds of acres of fields throughout Essex, Jericho, Williston and Colchester. After the flooding earlier this month, he says he lost upward of two-thirds of his crops including apples, berries, corn and other vegetables.

"'If you stick your head underwater and you don’t get air, you’re going to have brain damage and you’re never coming back. That’s basically what happened to a lot of the plants. They are injured too bad to be healthy,' he said."

https://www.wcax.com/2023/07/24/state-officials-inspect-damage-flooded-vt-farms/

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #HungerGames

What loss of #Arctic summer #SeaIce means:

#Extinction : #PolarBear cubs lose their playgrounds on floating ice sheets.

# Loss of known weather patterns :
- bad for agriculture, nature, #biodiversity, #adaption .

#Health :
- human, plant, and animal health suffers, including insects, in more and longer heatwaves.
- some pollinators lose fertility in heatwaves; offspring has even lower fertility.
- Stationary heat in Alaska's and Canada's heated rivers kills #salmon and animals who used to feed on salmon, like the #grizzly . #Extinction

#permafrost thaw
- speeds up. CH4 is emitted which accelerates warming and increases impacts, including impact on further #PermafrostThaw 🔁

#ForestFire :
- stationary heat evaporates water from forest and causes bigger fires. Wrt boreal fires, we lose the carbon sink.
- Air pollution: for animals and humans in Siberia but also in Moscow, air in summer becomes toxic from the smoke. #Miscarriage
- #GHG emissions CH4, CO2 increase from more fires. All the fossil CO2 that had been so neatly parked in forest trees, is emitted at once. Which accelerates heating 🔁

#GhostFire :
-ignited #peat from fires started in summer heatwaves can smoulder on through winter under snow, and flare up again next spring, hot or not. More #GHG , more permafrost thaw 🔁

#Drought :
- #Azores high expands then, and pushes the Iceland low AND its rains, further North. Regions fall dry which used to get their summer rain from the Iceland low (or even winter snow, but then due to #AMOC slowdown – which expands the Azore high in winter).
Northern Italy, France, the Alpes, Benelux, Germany... dry when we lose sea ice. Dryer still in more or longer heatwaves. #Fires 🔁 #CropLoss #WaterScarcity #WaterWar with #Industry and #PowerGeneration

#Flooding:
- Northern Europe receives more rain because the Iceland low has to drop its ballast somewhere.
-More #Flashflood like July 2021 in Belgium and Germany in more frequent stationary lows like Bernd.

#monsoon Asia / China is affected by loss of sea ice. But I forgot how.

@montepaulsen
Same development would occur in countries in #Europe if AMOC slows down further. The #drought in South and central Europe that come with a slower #AMOC https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2116655119, mean price hikes in food which disproportionally harms the poor in #Europe and globally. This in addition to the #CropLoss from a permanent #LaNina state potentially caused by #AMOC slowdown https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/07/why-the-collapse-of-an-atlantic-ocean-current-could-mean-la-nina-becomes-the-norm –

And water ways run dry like in 2022 Rhine, Loire, Po etc., which hampers economic activity, disrupts #SupplyChains etc.

To stave off societal unrest, politics would then hectically try to re-establish the status quo – much like they do now in reaction to Putler's war on #Ukraine: a boom in #LNG and new oil & gas exploration.

So whenever society is negatively impacted by #climate, it has a direct negative impact on #Paris.