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Climate change depresses beer drinkers (This is HUGH!)
newscientist.com ^
| Sep. 13, 2009
Posted on 09/14/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT by PROCON
IF THE sinking Maldives aren't enough to galvanise action on climate change, could losing a classic beer do it? Climatologist Martin Mozny of the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute and colleagues say that the quality of Saaz hops - the delicate variety used to make pilsner lager - has been decreasing in recent years. They say the culprit is climate change in the form of increased air temperature.
Mozny's team used a high-resolution dataset of weather patterns, crop yield and hop quality to estimate the impact of climate change on Saaz hops in the Czech Republic between 1954 and 2006. Best-quality Saaz hops contain about 5 per cent alpha acid, the compound that produces the delicate, bitter taste of pilsners.
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TOPICS: Agriculture; Science
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; globalwarming
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09/14/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT
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PROCON
To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:11:35 AM PDT
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PROCON
(Liberal: Proof you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
To: PROCON
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:12:42 AM PDT
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WorkerbeeCitizen
(The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
To: WorkerbeeCitizen
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:13:25 AM PDT
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frithguild
(Can I drill your head now?)
To: PROCON
That does it for me!
Reverse the Industrial Revolution! Smash the machines!
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:14:15 AM PDT
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Incorrigible
(If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
To: frithguild; WorkerbeeCitizen
I am stunedYou said it all!
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09/14/2009 6:15:28 AM PDT
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PROCON
(Liberal: Proof you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
To: PROCON
AGAIN: "Global Warming" is dead...because IT can be disproven. Then new king is "Climate Change"!
We now know that they don't have the data to prove global warming, but "Climate Change?" This term can mean EITHER warming or cooling, so you yokels out there who thought you were off the hook, keep those pocketbooks open. The important lesson is that NO MATTER WHAT you are going to need to give a million other people who didn't earn it your money.
ALL HAIL CLIMATE CHANGE!
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:16:14 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
To: PROCON
This is Sirius...
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:16:52 AM PDT
by
Drango
(A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
To: PROCON
Do these people know that there is CO
2in beer?
Beer and leavened bread need to be banned.
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:21:02 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: PROCON
No wait folks, there is hope, we can develop Bio Beer !!!
To: American Constitutionalist
No wait folks, there is hope, we can develop Bio Beer !!!Exactly!!
We'll take the CO2 out of it and we can all drink flat beer. :=)
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posted on
09/14/2009 6:25:18 AM PDT
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PROCON
(Liberal: Proof you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
To: PROCON
Hmmm, I wonder if the hops will grow around here?
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09/14/2009 6:40:39 AM PDT
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popdonnelly
(Yes, we disagree - no, we won't shut up - no, we won't quit.)
To: PROCON
Their thermometers are located under the boiler house exhaust.
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09/14/2009 6:41:22 AM PDT
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DManA
To: PROCON
But if the climate is shifting, then production of hops must shift to areas that are more receptive. Must they be grown in only certain spots?
hh
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09/14/2009 6:51:50 AM PDT
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hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: PROCON
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09/14/2009 7:15:39 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: PROCON; OKSooner; honolulugal; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; RW_Whacko; SideoutFred; ...
Ping me if you find one I've missed.
And Series too!
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09/14/2009 7:16:36 AM PDT
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xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: PROCON
Fortunately the planet is cooling now, so Czech beer will return to its rightful place in lower quartile of the brewing pantheon, instead of dead last place due to random crop panic.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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09/14/2009 8:10:03 AM PDT
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The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
...the quality of Saaz hops -- the delicate variety used to make pilsner lager -- has been decreasing in recent years...
"I've seen better heads on a glass of beer." -- Groucho Marx
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09/14/2009 8:21:26 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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09/14/2009 8:51:26 AM PDT
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steelyourfaith
("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
To: PROCON
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09/14/2009 8:56:01 AM PDT
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Monkey Face
(I wear a yellow ribbon for ForgotenKnight, my army hero grandson.)
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