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Posted on 08/15/2007 8:30:11 PM PDT by quantim
SANTA ROSA, Calif.— The wine industry must quickly and dramatically change the way it does business if it hopes to survive the impacts of global warming.
That was the stark message delivered recently by a Spanish wine expert who has studied the challenges climate change is already posing to winemakers in his country.
“If business continues as usual, in 50 years who is going to give a damn about wine? That’s not going to be our biggest problem,” Pancho Campo, founder of the Wine Academy of Spain, told about 100 people who attended a seminar in Sonoma on climate change.
The event at Gloria Ferrer Winery was billed as the first U.S. conference focusing on the impacts global warming will likely have on the wine industry.
Several studies have predicted that some of the world’s most prized grape-growing regions could eventually become unsuitable for growing fine wine grapes if global temperatures continue to rise.
But the recent seminar was unique because it detailed not only how winemakers may be able to adapt to climate change, but also how they can minimize their own emissions today and help avoid the worst-case scenarios of global catastrophe.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegram.com ...
Meanwhile, back at the ranch the tip of the iceberg, no pun:
Global warming good for N.S. wine (Nova Scotia)
GRAND PRE — For all its horrors, global warming is creating one benefit for some wineries: better growing seasons and better wines.
French Winemakers Welcome Warmer Summers
In 2003, France got a glimpse of what the future may hold. A summer heat wave broke all temperature records, straining the country's medical and energy resources. But a future of warmer summers could bring unexpected pleasures — including wine.
Sounds like somebody you might see on an infomercial at 5 a.m.
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Great job with those other two articles though. Seems the winemakers don't agree with the girlymen in the "media."
Warm sparkling wine...cool!
Yer right, dude - your biggest problem is going to be that Spain will be majority Mohammedan in 30 years (according to Mark Steyn, native Spaniards are only producing 1.1 kids per couple).
Mon dieu! Sacré bleu! How can zey think, how you say, Global warming ez bon? /sarc
I look forward to sipping a nice Alaskan Merlot.
Wine may be harmed, but looks like the raisin industry may benefit.
Great! If wine is “affected”, maybe it won’t taste like spoiled grape juice.
Selling carbon-wine offsets to save the planet!
I could while away the hours
Conferrin’ with the flowers
Consultin’ with the rain
And my head I’d be scratchin’
While my thoughts were busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain
A.G.
Hold that thought! Not me.
Hold that thought! Not me.
Hold that thought! Not me.
Nice finds. Attended a fabulous pinot & burgundy tasting last Sunday.
Don’t they mean “Global Warming May Affect Whiners”?
Then wine is safe as there is no global warming.
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