Last night when I wasn’t sleeping I heard something curious on the radio. There aren’t any acorns or hickory nuts this year. None at all. Anywhere. The trees simply didn’t produce them. And no one knows exactly why.
One theory is there was such a bumper crop last year that the trees are too stressed. Another is that it was a wet spring and the rain washed all the pollen out of the air. Some suggest that it’s due to climactic changes. The experts can’t agree but it seems they’re not going to overreact since it’s just one year. A fluke if you will. But, as I see it, the problem with all their theories is that they would apply to specific regions only, not all of North America.
The other problem with this is that last year the trees were so bountiful that wildlife was abundant too. Now, with the total lack of food this year, many creatures are going to starve. I know it’s nature but that doesn’t make much sense to me.
One theory is there was such a bumper crop last year that the trees are too stressed. Another is that it was a wet spring and the rain washed all the pollen out of the air. Some suggest that it’s due to climactic changes. The experts can’t agree but it seems they’re not going to overreact since it’s just one year. A fluke if you will. But, as I see it, the problem with all their theories is that they would apply to specific regions only, not all of North America.
The other problem with this is that last year the trees were so bountiful that wildlife was abundant too. Now, with the total lack of food this year, many creatures are going to starve. I know it’s nature but that doesn’t make much sense to me.
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Global warming - don't we use that as the universal blame for everything?
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