{"id":423938,"date":"2026-01-30T19:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423938"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:04:07","slug":"argentine-cherry-crops-are-fine-the-cool-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423938","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Cherry Crops are Fine, The Cool Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Climate Realism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cool Down (TCD) claimed in a recent article,\u00a0\u201cSupply of popular fruit plummets as severe storms devastate crops: \u2018On course for its worst season,\u2019<\/a>\u201d that Argentine cherry crops are being devastated by severe rain and hailstorms due to climate change. This is mostly false. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it\u2019s true that a recent season of cherries was ruined by bad weather, there is no evidence that a single year of bad weather is a sign of climate change. There is no long-term trend of worsening weather in Argentina and cherry production there over the past three decades has risen considerably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCD claimed that cherry growers in Argentina are having a bad season, \u201cwith severe rain and hailstorms\u201d that TCD classifies as a \u201cchange in climate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, a single season of bad weather is not climate change<\/a>. Climate is measured over a long period of time, so one year of severe storms and hail cannot be indicative alone of effects from climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCD says that \u201cfrequent extreme weather<\/a> events, which have been increasing, damage agricultural yields.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no easily accessible data about severe downpours in Argentina and their trends, which are likely different depending on the region of the country. It\u2019s important to note that Argentina has everything from ice and penguins to tropical rainforest to mountain deserts, and natural climate change will impact regions differently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the\u00a0World Bank<\/a>\u00a0does collect average annual rainfall data for Argentina, which show that precipitation varies from year to year, and rose gradually through the 1970s and early 2000s, before beginning to decline again afterwards. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n

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The World Bank says that annual fluctuations in rainfall in Argentina are driven largely by the El Ni\u00f1o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) pattern in the Pacific Ocean, which is a natural phenomenon. During the 2025 growing season, there were El Ni\u00f1o conditions present, which generally cause an increase in heavy rainfall<\/a> in most parts of Argentina, especially in the spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, existing data undercuts TCD\u2019s assertion that weather extremes are increasing in Argentina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the next best data to look at to determine whether climate change is destroying Argentina\u2019s cherry industry is cherry production yields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization<\/a>, Argentina has seen a fairly steady increase in cherry production over nearly the entire period of human-caused climate change is said to have occurred. As evidence, from 1990 to 2024, the last year for which the FAO reports data, Argentine cherry production increased by approximately 37 percent. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n

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Argentina\u2019s all-time production high was set in 2010, with the 2024 coming in second for the highest cherry production on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cool Down doesn\u2019t seem to understand what farmers throughout time have known: weather is fickle, with floods and droughts all too common. Nothing has changed in this regard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single bad harvest is not evidence of climate change, only a long-term trend in worsening weather and falling production might indicate climate change is causing harm, but such trends don\u2019t exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cool Down is an environmental advocacy website, billing itself as \u201cAmerica\u2019s mainstream climate brand.\u201d Thus, it should come as no surprise that every bad weather story is being used to prop up a climate alarmist perspective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no evidence that climate change is harming Argentina\u2019s cherry industry; that\u2019s an inconvenient truth that The Cool Down evidently can\u2019t handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Cool Down (TCD) claimed in a recent article,\u00a0\u201cSupply of popular fruit plummets as severe storms devastate crops: \u2018On course for its worst season,\u2019\u201d that Argentine cherry crops are being devastated by severe rain and hailstorms due to climate change. This is mostly false. While it\u2019s true that a recent season of cherries was ruined by bad weather, there is no evidence that a single year of bad weather is a sign of climate change. There is no long-term trend of worsening weather in Argentina and cherry production there over the past three decades has risen considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":423945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"Discover how Argentina's cherry production has thrived despite claims of climate change devastation, debunking myths about extreme weather impacts.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Argentina's Cherry Production Thrives Despite Weather Claims","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvY2xpbWF0ZS1zY2llbmNlLnByZXNzXC93cC1jb250ZW50XC91cGxvYWRzXC8yMDI2XC8wMVwvMEFRTk1ocERNVDQ0cHJDS2Q3UDZkb0tBVG5DcHgwQXVXb3VZakhlWi04Z245M3pLYmlpMkIwV2ltd1lzMXM2YXpGeWh2S1M0RTdlcDBJZkRheTItdjcxLXhIRWlheUpJSGxULVpBLXl3eWR4Z0ZNeU1na0tkcUlwNGFsMUpsX3FfLTEtMTAyNHg2NzAuanBlZyIsInR4dCI6IkFyZ2VudGluZSBDaGVycnkgQ3JvcHMgYXJlIEZpbmUsIFRoZSBDb29sIERvd24iLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTU1ODEyNDQ5fQ.C8Bp4_7veM5dCgdcdMWebhMGn311uOPqLO2hjv0Gh94MQ"},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691841013,691818056,691834694,691828636,691818473,691820465],"class_list":{"0":"post-423938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-argentine-cherry-crops","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-el-nino-southern-oscillation-enso-5","11":"tag-the-cool-down-tcd","12":"tag-weather","13":"tag-world-bank","15":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0AQNMhpDMT44prCKd7P6doKATnCpx0AuWouYjHeZ-8gn93zKbii2B0WimwYs1s6azFyhvKS4E7ep0IfDay2-v71-xHEiayJIHlT-ZA-ywydxgFMyMgkKdqIp4al1Jl_q_-1.jpeg?fit=1475%2C965&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1MhI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":314823,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=314823","url_meta":{"origin":423938,"position":0},"title":"The Seattle Times Says Washington State is in a Serious Drought. 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