Climate Change Is Ruining Maple Syrup By Making It Less Sweet And Affecting When We Tap It

shows that, by 2100, maple syrup season may begin one month earlier than it did between the years 1950 and 2017.

Maple syrup production is contingent upon two climate-sensitive characteristics: its sugar content and sap flow. Sugar content depends on the amount of carbohydrates the tree has stored after a year of photosynthesizing and taking up nutrients from the surrounding soil through its roots. Sap flow depends on the local area’s freeze-thaw cycle. Specifically, sap begins to flow in sugar maple trees during a very specific window: when freezing temperatures occur at night but warm up during the day.

A team of scientists spanning universities across Canada and the United States surveyed six sugar maple groves between the state of Virginia and Québec, Canada over the course of six years to see how sugar content and sap flow related to monthly and yearly temperatures as well as the prior year’s temperatures.

Using this information and historical temperature data, the researchers were able to develop a model that predicted how warming may impact maple syrup production if we continue to produce greenhouse gas emissions at the current rate. In addition to determining that sap production will occur earlier in the year by the end of the century, the team also found that syrup production will likely decline in Virginia and Indiana, but increase considerably in sugar maple groves further north.

Is it? Or are we ruining maple syrup by over production and over consumption?!?

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NO NOT MAPLE SYRUP NOW TOO... MAYBE THE MAPLE TREES ARE SICK OF PEOPLE STABBING THEM TO STEAL IT'S SWEET SAP!!! TREES ARE PEOPLE TOO! LOL I AM SURE SOMEWHERE ON EARTH MAPLE TREES WOULD GROW BETTER.. THAT COULD BE A SEASON TYPE THING .. CUT IT DOWN AND LOOK AT THE RINGS!

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