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Global warming may affect wine
telegram.com ^ | August 15, 2007 | Kevin McCallum NYT Regional Media Group

Posted on 08/15/2007 8:30:11 PM PDT by quantim

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To: quantim

OMG, all the winos are gonna DIE!


21 posted on 08/15/2007 8:58:13 PM PDT by upchuck (Today there are 10,000 more illegal aliens in yer country than there were yesterday. 10,000! THINK!)
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To: quantim

Drink more beer!


22 posted on 08/15/2007 9:04:31 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: CodeToad

Actually, there may be global cooling, and then, they COULD be in REAL trouble.


23 posted on 08/15/2007 9:05:02 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Being Challenged Builds Character! Being Coddled Destroys Character!)
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To: quantim

Maybe “Vineland” will be covered with grapes again, just like it was when those Vikings found it. Then the earth will be at the same conditions when they went out for a sail.


24 posted on 08/15/2007 9:11:25 PM PDT by TruthConquers (Delendae sunt publici scholae)
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To: quantim
..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.

Dry warm areas is bad for grapes?

I thought cold, wet weather was bad for grapes. Fungus,chill, and at. al. etc.

Guess those California and Australian wine growers got it all wrong/sar.
25 posted on 08/15/2007 9:13:56 PM PDT by RedMonqey ( The truth is never PC)
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To: CodeToad

Didnt they revise the warming data saying that the earth temp has risen 0.1 degrees in 10 yrs, so in 50 yrs does that mean 1/2 of a degree, which is statistically insignificant in my eyes


26 posted on 08/15/2007 9:32:31 PM PDT by mriguy67
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To: mriguy67

Think of it — they’ll be growing coffee right in Seattle. No more importing expensive, foreign coffee!


27 posted on 08/15/2007 9:59:59 PM PDT by Snapping Turtle (Slow down and get a grip!)
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To: quantim

And it’s been one of the coolest summers we’ve had since I’ve lived in the Bay Area (20 years).


28 posted on 08/15/2007 10:19:22 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: quantim

Wine is a terrible waste of good grape juice.


29 posted on 08/15/2007 10:19:35 PM PDT by Chewbacca (Vote Ron Paul for President in 2008!!!!!! The best man for the job!)
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To: quantim

Where do you start to list all the evils of global (GW) worming? And if you decide the right place, who has the time to do the subject justice?

Not everyone is as lucky as Al Gore. We can’t all make a living off hawking the many evils of GW. Some of us weren’t born with a green thermometer up our posterior. We’re conservative by birth and conviction, or just by conviction. That precludes us getting the equivelent of a the working man’s yearly salary for blowing two hours worth of smoke in the only place it’s allowed these days. That’s up the butt of other people too stupid to get our of their own way, but definately not too busy to get in ours.

My fellow conservatives, you and I can’t break into the college lecture circuit. We can’t disburse the smoke for two hours and move on to the next campus payday. And that makes for an interesting dynamic.

If nobody is going to be able to refute what a snake like Al Gore claims on campus, then brother Gore can evangelize to his heart’s content, converts with glazed gaping eyes and hearts aflutter, breathing in the essence, a high that will last for decades. No medical antidote exists for the crazed at risk. What’s worse, not even a political antidote exists for this epidemic, since these folks have adopted the same mindset of some religious people they love to roast. You see, these people refuse sound science in the same way some religious people refuse sound scientific cures.

Cars are killing mother Gana. Fossil fuels are bad. Alternative fuels are equally bad, because carbon is a dirty four letter word. Oil is bad. Corn is bad. Wind is bad. Water is bad. And yes, if you’re breathing, that is bad. Knock it off.

This all makes perfect sense. Nobody has been able to challenge Gore yet. His claims are so sound and make so much logical sense, that it would be absurd to think someone actually could question them. Nevermind that nobody is allowed to. The colleges won’t let conservatives (or even liberals) on campus to challenge him. Gore, or should we refer to him simply as Mr. Wizzard won’t agree to a debate off campus. I guess that comment is somewhat misleading though, because Mr. Wizzard won’t accept a debate on campus either.

The planet (our planet Al) has been growing warmer for thousands of years. Mr. Wizzard the nature guy evidently hasn’t been to Yosemite. This place more than half-way to Mexico from Canada was created by a glacier(s). Hear that Mr. Wizzard? That glacier melted eons ago. I wonder if you know which of the large automobile manufacturers was around to cause it.

When Mr. Wizzard comes along, the Pied Piper extrordinair if ever there was one, he plays his melodious tune with the honed skill of a snake charmer. Mesmerized, his lemings follow toward the cliff.

He could say, global warming is causing our population to go blind. He could say that colors are deminished because the temperature is higher than it used to be. He could say that women don’t look as sexy as they used to because it’s just that damned hot. (Of course he might have a point on this one though. Have you seen those Mr. Wizzard groupies?) I don’t have time to list all the charges flying around these days. If you come to this forum and read a lot, you’ll see what I mean.

While the rest of us work for a living, Mr. Wizzard gets a free ride and actually gets to star in his own science fiction movie. And that’s quite fitting since it’s the perfect medium for a lying bastard that doesn’t want to be challenged on even the most infantile of points. (Which pretty much covers what he has to offer.)

Now the warming is affecting the wine. I know it was affect the whine, but this? Oh my God!

There’s a sickness in the land. There’s a disease moving across this nation’s campuses. I wish it were limited to global worming, but there’s a myriad of issues being demagogued these days. Mr. Wizzards are poping up more frequently than moles in a whack-a-molium.

I just wish it were possible to have a big club ready when their heads pop up. All kidding aside, it would actually be nice if we could just break into our nation’s campuses. I’m sure that’s just around the corner though, because everyone knows that liberals are the leading proponents of diversity, alternative views and fairness.

Well, I must say that wasn’t entirely ‘all kidding aside’. Mr. Wizzard will be traveling the college gravy train delux warning of global cooling, before this university lock on free speach thaws.

Intellectuals... hey, it would make for a great new sitcom, if the receding glaciers weren’t uncovering the tendency for facism at such a rapid rate.


30 posted on 08/16/2007 12:26:35 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: quantim

Someone should point out that areas considered too cold today for vineyards, used to be considered “prime wine” country.

Climate change is a fact of life on this planet. The fact that some places in Europe have been prime wine producing lands for a few hundred or even a thousand years is nothing compared to the fact that each of those regions at some point in the past has been much too warm or much too cold for growing grapes, and this will be true again one day, regardless of whether or not we, as humans, try to do something to maintain a climatological status quo.


31 posted on 08/16/2007 12:54:03 AM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: quantim

The only thing that global warming really affects is the brains of everyone who truly believes that man made global warming really exists!


32 posted on 08/16/2007 1:09:11 AM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: quantim
Very interesting post. Here's really where the true test of "global warming" comes. Where personal finances and multi million dollar assets are threatened. What we see happening here will tell you how truly viable a threat global warming is perceived as. When it comes to money and their livelihood, you'll start seeing people crossing T's and dotting I's, basically, really paying attention to determine if there's a real threat.
33 posted on 08/16/2007 1:47:48 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: NautiNurse
If you come over to my area some time, in Ft Lauderdale : Seventh Street Wine Company and in Boca Raton : The Rustic Cellar.

Cheers!

34 posted on 08/16/2007 1:50:32 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob
Bush's fault.
35 posted on 08/16/2007 1:54:07 AM PDT by thewitz
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To: DoughtyOne
Great post, deserves it's own thread in it's honor.

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36 posted on 08/16/2007 1:57:38 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: JennysCool

Fifty tyears from, global warming won’t have affected the world wine industry 1% as much as will have the imposition of Sharia law in France and Spain.


37 posted on 08/16/2007 6:29:57 AM PDT by Pilsner
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“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,”

The way Spain in going, Sharia law will prohibit wine anyway. Now, that will be a problem!

38 posted on 08/16/2007 12:19:31 PM PDT by Don Carlos (No 8 Do)
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To: mriguy67

“Didnt they revise the warming data”

well, recently it has been discovered and reported that the temperature sensors in the US are in faulty locations that give false higher readings, such as sensors near air conditioner units.


39 posted on 08/16/2007 3:16:42 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Caipirabob

Thanks. I appreciate it.


40 posted on 08/16/2007 4:51:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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