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South Carolina has a century left with our peaches.  That s how long thermal ecologist Mike Sears estimates it will take the weather to warm in the Palmetto State to make the climate uninhabitable for peach orchards. All the crop bands are moving north as heat rises, the Clemson assistant professor said.  By the end of the century, the Southeast United States is expected to have 100 more days of extreme heat per year, according to the 2018 National Climate Assessment, an annual report to Congress and the President.  Not only is climate change happening, it s probably even worse than the scientists were saying, Sears said in reference to a global temperature report. 

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