According to a story in The Irish Times, “‘worst ever crop’ down to climate change, say Italy's olive farmers.”  At The Ecologist, we read that “climate turbulence deals costly blow to olive oil yield,” and that the price of this “favourite culinary ingredient is rising fast – driven in large part by changes in climate.”  The climate change section at Salon.com also covered the alarmism over olive oil production.  Farmers in major olive oil-producing countries like Italy are apparently hysterical about how the effects of climate change are ravaging their industry. Conveniently, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization keeps a handy database of olive oil production by country and region dating back to 1961.  Italy's olive oil production trend has been steadily and continuously increasing since records began, including over the past couple decades.  And as the chart below shows, olive oil...(Read Full Post)