Timing....just happens to be national chocolate covered cherries day
So will I so no worries.
What worries me is that Al Gore predicts that the ice caps will be completely gone by 2013. And Paul R. Ehrlich predicts that by the mid-1980s, hundreds of millions of people will be starving to death due to overpopulation.
And the Church of the SubGenius predicts that the world will end in 1998.
Time to clear out another corrupt bureaucracy
Cacao trees *are* in trouble, though the cause is almost certainly not AGW. While the Wiki article cites “climate change” as a partial reason for concern, no actual citation is given nor is any explanation for what the exact problem is. Genetic diversity is also cited, and much more likely to be an issue, since the Cacao tree is heavily cultivated.
Unmentioned in the OP is that while the Cacao tree is originally native to Central and South America, the vast majority of chocolate production comes from the Ivory Coast and Ghana, which together make up 50% of total chocolate production. Given the inherent instability of any African country, as well as more recent problems like Boko Haram, the real threat to chocolate production has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with what the French termed “C’est L’Afrique”. Finding new regions where the Cacao tree can grow, that aren’t so ephemeral, is probably the better strategy.
"Theobroma cacao, also called the cacao tree and the cocoa tree, is a small (4–8 m (13–26 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae,[2] native to the deep tropical regions of Central and South America."
Heretofore, we have been told that "global climate change/warming" was going to result in a huge INCREASE in the number of "deep tropical regions" on this planet. Wouldn't that mean MORE chocolate?
Global warming is going extinct?
I better go to Costco and stash up on Nutella.
They’ve known for about 25 years that some kind of fungus or blight has been devastating cacao trees and causing the availability to decrease and price to rise. But that’s pathogenic not climate related.
But to a liberal all problems are climate related.
I expect that there will be run on chocolate futures, shortly.
I expect that there will be run on chocolate futures, shortly.
If the temp rises in the areas now used for growing cocoa, the areas will move North, and the crops will continue.
Same goes for bananas, and anything else now grown in tropical climates.
In a few billion years the Sun WILL expand and destroy the Earth. Then there will be no chocolate for anyone.
Hey, at least we’ll still have caffeine which is only one methyl group different from chocolate (theobromine). When caffeine is metabolized that methyl group is removed and the metabolic byproduct is theobromine. Drink caffeine and you metabolize chocolate. Cheers and bring on another cup of java.
Remember fifty years ago when chocolate was bad for you. The Hippies went for carob.
Canabis News Network omits that chocolate cravings are going to be replaced be edible hashish candies.
Perhaps NOAA will be extinct by 2050.