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luak, just today I picked a lot of lemons, and juiced them. Froze the juice in ice cube trays, and stored the cubes in the freezer. My wife uses them as needed throughout the year.
Anyway, if the world heats up, then I might be able to plant a palm tree in my yard, and grow my citrus trees outside year around which would be nice. - Millet.
If only things were so simple! Actually a global warming is predicted to reduce the strength of the polar jet stream (because the reduced heat gradient from the pole to the equator, lowering the winds), making for polar cold fronts easier to reach southern latitudes. So a warmer earth apparently makes for a warmer AVERAGE temperatures, but also bigger spikes. Moreover, some place will become colder as result of the disruption of the termohaline circulation. This should last just few centuries, then probably people will be able to grow palms in greenland (if someone survives) with the new stable climate.
Regarding Italy, i have talked lately with a researcher of the Palermo university which complained that Italian citrus production has faced a long standing crisis and nowadays it is reduced practically to nothing. What i can say? I don't have any experience to say if he was a bit exaggerating or not. What i can tell you for sure is that in my summer travel in Sicily i have seen several abandoned citrus orchards, and finding good citrus, even in season has lately become a bit tricky (but maybe i'm just a bit snob when it comes to good fruits?)
In last few years in my city some people have started to plant some oranges tree and they seems to survive, while till few years before my place was too cold for oranges. I'm in process to graft some poncirus with some oranges to produce my own citrus orchard; so finally, even if i can't find any good cirtrus for sale, i will be able to grow my own!
