God grief. These dolts actually get to vote...

er, Good grief..

In fairness, 2007 was a horrendous year for syrup makers. The Quebec "cartel" had a 4 million gallon reserve at the beginning of that year, and it was gone by the fall. However, global warming was hardly the culprit. IIRC, to produce syrup they need warm days and cold nights; in this case, they had cold days late into the spring, and then they had both warm days and nights, which doesn't make for optimal sap production. However, like any variation from the norm, the MSM immediately blamed it on Mike Harris - er, I mean global warming.

There were numerous factors in the low production seasons. One of them was winters that were no consistently cold. Mother nature giving a premature wakeup call to the trees ruining their entire season.

Perfectly acceptable to say global warming ... depending on how you want to define global warming.

Just remember the correct term is now climate change.

It's only natural to be worried. After all, as all scienticians know, sugar maple trees evolved in the 800 year period between the end of the Medieval Warm Period, when it was a lot warmer than it is now, and last Tuesday.

Polar bears, too.

Phew,
I was starting to find it difficult to imagine my porridge without Maple syrup.

I'm confused.

It takes huge amounts of co2 releasing fuel to boil down maple sap into syrup. These terrible people are in league with the devil, polluting the planet, causing the glaciers to melt, and using land stolen from its rightful owners.

Every Vermont producer should be required by law to install a multimillion dollar "American Made Only" vacuum kettle to produce syrup in a envirofriendly manner.

But but but Global warming is all BAD! Things getting better does not fit the narrative. Let nme debunk this story AGW faithful style.

1) Is this information Peer-Reviewed?
2) Was it written by a Climate Scienctist?
3) This is in-line with predictions.
4) One year is not a trend.
5) Weather is NOT Climate (unless it is warmer)
6) The loss of Polar Bears due to drowning made the trees relax.

See everything is exacly as we predicted, nothing to see here folks, remember to vote for Cap and Trade! I have to drive down to Starbucks and have a Imported Coffee now and then go to my save the spotted tree whale frogs rally.

Yeah, good point Sgt. How come the greenies aren't protesting the maple syrup producers for 'raping' the trees and exploiting their sap? And also trying to shut them down for all the fuel burned to boil the sap. You'd think the eco-nuts would be burning down sugar shacks for all these things. Oops, not environmentally responsible to burn it down. I mean dismantling and disposing of in an environmentally responsible manner, and donating the building materials to Habitat for Humanity.

Be scared be very scared the fish will hear you.
CBC "Fish grow bigger ears as ocean CO2 levels rise: study"
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/26/fish-ears-grow-co2-carbon-dioxide.html

Can you imagine the pain the trees feel when spikes are driven into them, and their vital bodily fluids are tapped - for what? a few moments of gastronomic gratification by humans? When, oh when, are we going to learn to stop greedily exploiting Other Life on our beloved planet?

Where is PETT (People for the Ethical Treatment of Trees) when they are needed? Where are the protests with the enlightened environmentalists encapsulating themselves in oversized syrup bottles in awareness-raising street theatre?

It's just so wrong to drive spikes into the trees that provide all the forest creatures their homes. Surely, the Carbon-Taxing crowd could have picked a more ethical example to make their point.

Don't these people have memories? It must be starting to sink in that years of full on hysterical predictions haven't resulted in much.
But let's not forget, the official explanation was some sort of global warming "hiatus" or vacation, or shut up and stop bothering me...

Having worked in the boil shack as a kid I can unequivically state this story is BS.

The truth is the inverse of what this article insinuates. Maple sap, the main ingredient in the rendered syrup, requires fast warming in the spring to drive the tree's sap flow. If sap production is low it's because it is too cold.

The only saps in this AGW Maple Syrup armageddon lie are the insulated urban consumers who haven't the common knowledge to doubt such an obviously false supply shortage con job.

Take heart - sda has been pointing out the warmongers scandal for a few years now. Some of those 15k hits a day are from some very prominent and influential people.

[Dr. Kiminori Itoh, a Japanese environmental physical chemist who contributed to a U.N. climate report, dubs man-made warming “the worst scientific scandal in history.] wsj

From Maple Syrup to warmer climate to more hurricanes - the computer predictions of doom are just another example of 'junk-in junk-out'.

[The collapse of the “consensus” has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth’s temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02.] wsj

All I know is I wanna read that book...

Adrian:

just Phew? I was mortified to think that my life may no longer have maple syrup in it. When I started reading that article, time seemed to slow, my senses heightened, I had a new awareness of things. Then of course my boss slapped me in the head and brought me back to reality, which is exactly what these nutcases who preach global warming need.

Not to worry, Vermont maple syrup producers. Whackjob-Malarkey have heard your anguished cries and soon all will be fixed, including your trees. Remember that this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…

And while the House is ready to vote on the biggest fraud the world has ever seen, the media is dumbing-down the news. Simply infatuated with a child molester's death. And you wonder why we mock you.

Whackjob-Malarkey is a result, not only of the failure of the media, as great as that failure is, but the failure of education, of scientific institutions and the failure of bloated and underachieving government bureaucracies.

Good, does this mean we'll get a new flag, one that doesn't have the Liberal logo on it?

Um, not to be unpatriotic, but maple trees are weeds. I know people like that sap they exude, but basically they are the dandelions of the tree world.
Like Cher and cockroaches they would survive nuclear Armageddon, let alone imaginary climate change.

The southernmost sugarbush is in the mountains of Virginia; I assume their season is in February-March. The January average temp where I live in northern New Hampshire is about -12°C; theirs is probably about 10°C warmer. There is no climate model I know of (except an exploding sun) that foresees a temperature rise of 10°C in the mid-latitudes.

2007 was a horrible maple year because (at least where I live) April was very cold, with four snowstorms culminating in a blizzard that tore off roofs and took out our power for a week.

"Then of course my boss slapped me in the head and brought me back to reality,which is exactly what these nutcases who preach global warming need."-----Assuming that they have a job and a boss,that would be pleasing. Also,what is this event think that the Branons indulge in? Is that something that the commie tree hugging hippies do when they coagulate into groups?