[Oldeconomybuyer]

[kearnyirish2]

“Climate change is hurting craft breweries”

They are casting a wider net until they find something white people really care about...

[proxy_user]

Hops will grow nearly anywhere:

http://countryfolks.com/hops-in-connecticut/

[Grampa Dave]

What is probably happening in Wet Washington and Oregon:

Farmers are plowing up their hops plants and planting the green stuff people smoke.

Gorebull warming is not causing this problem.

[Dandy]

Has anyone heard of a greenhouse? You can grow anything anytime anywhere in one. Isn’t that cool.......

[butlerweave]

When everyone and their dog is brewing beer you’ll have a shortage of hops

[goodnesswins]

IDIOTS...There are TOO MANY craft breweries in the Pacific NW now....the market is oversaturated.

[bigbob]

If my buddy can grow hops in his backyard in Illinois, maybe they need to import.

[ClearCase_guy]

They never even hint that — if Global Warming were true — maybe Canada or Siberia would be a burst of agricultural activity and suddenly citrus fruit from Alberta would be all the rage and Yakust Hops would give you great beer.

They never allow that this is possible, because they don’t care about supplies. They just want to raise taxes and push for de-industrialization.

[Rebelbase]

Good grief. A shortage of hops is what most craft brew needs to be drinkable.

[Ancesthntr]

A couple thoughts come to mind:

1. GMAFB!!! These people are REALLY desperate and reaching, if that’s all that they’ve got to convince us about “climate change.”

2. Oh, sure, reduced production at tiny little craft brewers in the Pacific Northwest is a good reason to junk Capitalism, and let the mentally unstable tyrant-wannabees of the uber-Left control our society. Gotta have that craft beer!

[RightGeek]

There’s nothing global warming can’t do!

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

A lot of those “craft breweries” have put out gallons of dreck, anyway. No big loss. They can make corn whiskey if the climate warms, like Kentucky and Tennessee. Of course, they’d probably mess that up, too!

[miniTAX]

“We are reaching this kind of tipping point,” said NASA climate scientist Joshua Fisher. “What we’ve been used to in terms of how much rain we’re going to get and how plants grow is no longer the norm.”

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With such pseudo-scientific garbabge, the Trump administration now has names and services to be drained from the swamp.
Cut the funding of these charlatans and fearmongers NOW, not only are they useless, they are destroying science and its credibility.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

What absolute BS.

1. The hops growing region in Oregon is located in the Willamette Valley on the 45th parallel where the valley's fertile soil, moderate climate, and plentiful rainfall provide ideal conditions for high quality hop production.
2. Dateline 4/27/17: Eugene sets a record for number of rainy days since Oct. 1, 2016

Average Annual Precipitation, Eugene, OR

[wita]

Oh the insanity!

[Mr. Jeeves]

Climate change is hurting craft breweries

Not nearly as much as minimum wage laws and the tax code.

[catnipman]

more complete hogwash from the warmists.

Hops is a fricking weed. it grows all over the place here in semi-arid Colorado, and the big craft breweries here have taken to growing their own.

[jospehm20]

Climate Change. Is there anything it cannot do?

[CincyRichieRich]

Bull crap.
Demand is outstripping supply, and, most hops are grown in commie states, like Washington and Oregon, so I’d wager regulations hurt the growers...and, get this, Germany has many small breweries run by not old guys (like me), but rather youngsters...guess where they get their hops?? Yup, here, in the U.S....that is another reason demand is outstripping supply.

[moehoward]

If there’s a shortage it might be because there’s almost as many Micro Breweries as there are Starbucks in Western Wa. Rainfall ain’t the problem, new record this year breaking last years record.