Climate Change Poses Threat to UK Orchards?

From the BBC News Online.: In a presentation to the RHS Science Exchange, Dr. Simon Thornton-Wood, head of science at the Royal Horticultural Society, predicted that apples and other fruit that require winter chill may not thrive in the UK as the climate warms, and may be replaced by warmer climate crops such as peaches.

The Royal Horticultural Society is concerned about potential problems brought on by climate change, particularly the effects of winter flooding and warmer climate invasive exotics. Plants such as giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed are already problems.

Links:
Climate risk to UK apple orchards from the BBC News Online
Climate Change, Government of Canada

Posted by Eric La Fountaine at 2:12 PM on March 15, 2004

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