Saturday, June 23, 2018

        THIRTY MOSTLY LONGER, HOTTER, SUMMERS LATER

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LERKEKÅSA VINEYARD

Lerkekåsa Vineyard in Telemark, Norway (59°40′N; 09°19′E).  has been growing grapes since 2008- Check out their website to learn about visiting- this used to be the  world's northernmost vineyard, but despite taking advantage  of  accelerated global warming at high latitudes, the pinot neros of Telemark have been upstaged  by the  almost Arctic oenophiles of  Finland's

  OLKILUOTO NUCLEAR POWER PLANT

Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant
ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE  at 61°14′ North, this experimental vineyard uses the reactors  13 °C) cooling water  for small-scale agriculture , including  a  thousand square meter  plot that yields  ~2,000 pounds  of Zilga grapes a year