Alarmists Claim Maple Syrup Climate Crisis, Yet Production Sets New Records

Alarmists Claim Maple Syrup Climate Crisis, Yet Production Sets New Records
A drop of fresh sap falls from a tap in a maple tree in Bowdoin, Maine, on March 28, 2006. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
James Taylor
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The 2019 maple syrup harvest brought another opportunity for global-warming alarmists to gin up a fictitious climate scare.

With feel-good stories abounding about hardy Canadians and Americans collecting sap from their sugar maples from February to April, The New York Times and other media outlets attempted to turn the news into a maple syrup climate crisis. Objective facts, however, reveal maple syrup production is setting new records nearly every year, as temperatures continue their modest recent warming trend.