Despite global warming, Ukrainian winters remain too harsh to grow lemons or bananas on an industrial scale. This was reported by the director of the Kherson Regional Hydrometeorological Center, Yuriy Kiriyak, as informed by Interfax-Ukraine. The main reason why exotic crops will not become part of our industrial agricultural sector is the critical winter temperatures. Despite the overall warming, Ukraine records short but severe cold spells every year, down to minus 15–19 degrees. According to Kiriyak, these temperature drops will not disappear in the future. Even a few days of such frost are fatal for citrus or banana trees, making their cultivation in open ground impossible. Over the last two decades, the sum of effective temperatures in Ukraine has increased by an impressive 48%. In fact, nature has started to give farmers about 1000 degrees of additional heat energy for free. This has led to the climate of the northern regions of the country today corresponding to the ...