Maple Syrup Shortage In 2101

Time to hoard more maple syrup in the basement bunker.

Climate change to bring syrup shortage.

From Science. 

Savor that sticky, slightly nutty sweetness drenching your Sunday morning pancakes now. The trees that make maple syrup will struggle to survive climate change, a new study reveals. Researchers had thought that pollution from cars, factories, and agriculture might buffer sugar maples against an increasingly warm and dry climate by supplying soils with fertilizing nitrogen. But the new analysis, which examined 20 years of tree and soil data in four Michigan locations, finds that extra boost of nitrogen won’t be enough. Instead, the researchers report today in Ecology, a lack of water will stunt the trees’ growth. They ran two climate change scenarios specific to the region. In one case, driven by a decrease in carbon dioxide emissions, temperature would change moderately, by less than 1°C over the next century.

My neighbor down the road will not be happy when I tell him the bad news. Him and his wife process maple syrup every spring. 

Better tell my grandchildren, they will be in their late 90's when the shortage hits.