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If you’ve ever visited Northern Europe, you’ve noticed that the fare is more about meat and potatoes than it is the rich salads and vegetable plates of the Mediterranean. The reason for that is that higher latitudes have less solar irradiation, even in summer, than their lower latitude cousins, regardless of of how many hours of (extremely weak) sunlight they receive.
Below is a photo of the sunshine near the summer solstice in the northern part of Sweden. Yes, it’s 24 hours a day, but does this seem like an environment in which veggies are going to thrive?

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How DTU’s Rain Test Facility Predicts Erosion
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This Guy Is Bucking the Trend
If it’s true that David Valadao is moving back in line with Trump (which seems exceptionally unlikely in California), this jackass is in the slim minority. Most congressional Republicans are trying to pretend they’ve never heard of Trump.
The representative’s district is in the rural farming region in Central California, but still, aligning oneself with Trump makes no more sense than cozying up to skin cancer.
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73%? Why not 95%? 125%?