KathyP
The earth has been warmer in the past both before and after man. What doesn't adapt, dies, but on the whole, warmer times have been better for people. Longer growing seasons, less disease.
No way to know how climate change will impact beekeeping over the long haul, but other than something catastrophic like a sudden poll shift, they seem like resilient critters. depending on where you are, they will probably do fine and people will continue to keep them. As far back as our history goes, and as many changes as the earth has endured, people have kept bees.
Good post Kathy, history and science teaches up that climate change has always been a fact, sometimes naturally and sometimes supernaturally. I am reminded of Honeybees, and Milk of a land, (the abundance of a land); The Promised Land of Milk and Honey, and the climate change that has happened there in the past 2000 years or so... Some might find the following report of climate change interesting which has effected a land, the bees in it, and its people... (and long before the first car or jet plane..)
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In 2008 this came out scientists began
analyzing the chemical composition of
rings that formed the the stalagmites;
You know in the cave is growing from the.
what's called the "Surat Cave" near
Jerusalem. The rings dated between 200 BC
and 1100 AD. What they found; They found
something happened, they found that the
climate of Israel suddenly changed. When?
In the first century. When? Around the end
part of the first century, like think 70
AD.
The geologists discover the climate
suddenly changes in Israel. How? The rains dry up.
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What happened?
The entire land dries up in Israel. More
and more it becomes as a parched
wilderness. The trees are gone, the
flowers are gone, the plants are gone,
because the 'Promised Land' becomes a
desert wilderness. And that, you look at
the Torah, you look in the law what Moses
said got the Covenant; It said that 'will'
happen; The land will become like a
wasteland. It'll become so barren, that I
mean it'll be like cursed. People
will come from far away, they'll pass by
and they'll say, "What has happened to
this land? What has the Lord done to this
land?" It's amazing, because of the 19th
'century literally', you had people
from around the world who made
pilgrimages to the land, at that time
'before the Jewish people came back'. One
of them was
Mark Twain, and
Mark Twain is
very eloquent. He writes a
thing, he says, (It's amazing), he says, "We
went for miles and miles, and
didn't see a plant, this land is
wasted, it is a barren land." he says, "But how
can any land prosper with a curse of the
Lord on it?" And he says that
"exactly", and is for filling Deuteronomy;
They will come by and they'll say that.
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https://youtu.be/nTeezmuYOAU?si=4EpU9NJXyC4cSr3W
