Posted on 10/12/2011 9:07:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Scientists say climate change will eventually claim many victims - including, according to a new report, chocolate.
As temperatures increase and weather trends change, the main growing regions for cocoa could shrink drastically, according to new research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
Ghana and the Ivory Coast - which produce more than half of the global cocoa supply - could take a major hit by 2050.
Currently, the optimal locations to grow the crop are about 330 feet to 820 feet above sea level, with temperatures of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees. That range will soar to 1,500 feet to 1,640 feet in four decades to compensate for hotter weather.
Cocoa production, which reached about $9 billion from 2008 to 2009 and accounts for 7.5% of the Ivory Coasts gross domestic product and 3.4% of Ghanas, could be in for a heavy slide.
Peter Gleick, a MacArthur fellow and chief executive of the Pacific Institute, bemoaned the potential decline of the sweet treat last week in an open letter to climate change skeptics in Forbes.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
exactly.
Hadley CRU wanted to “hide the decline”.
the world is getting colder, not hotter...
http://www.real-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ScreenHunter_135-Sep.-16-09.00.gif
http://www.real-science.com/day-2011-cooler-2010-2
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/276516/Britain-faces-a-mini-ice-age-
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
FR thread
Peanut butter prices about to soar amid poor harvest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2791594/posts
I don't particularly care for chocolate, but I know some gals that will be calling for nuclear weapons strikes, anywhere, if they run short.
/johnny
LOL. I’ll be pushing 95 myself, well, my bones anyway.
“Climate change could shrink chocolate production”
That’s great news. Now Moochelle won’t have to worry so much about childhod obesity. Would appear chocolate will be too expensive for the breeding class to consume.
Now if we could just get Chewie to get her fat ass on a stair climber instead of doing 3 minutes of jumping jacks.
Now, please be sure to shave the hair under your arm-pits and back before your next taxpayer-funded vacation. You got’s to come correct and represent us stoopid mouthbreathers to the rest o’ duh world wid class. Know what I B sayin’? Yu got’s to keep it real.
Oh the horror! No really!
That train’s pulling a big caboose!
I wonder whether they considered that I might be able to grow my own cocoa plants in NJ.
ML/NJ
I wonder whether they considered that I might be able to grow my own cocoa plants in NJ.
ML/NJ
Solyent Green, Inc. I dunno much about them, but I'm guessing by the name that they're one of those "green" businesses getting stimulus cash.
So what.... Michelle Obama doesn’t want us to eat chocolate.
The socilaist democrats who funded this study should be prosecuted for misspending taxpayers funds. The scammers that pulled off the phoney study should be prosecuted right along with them. Enough is enough. Just another reason to vote these democrat frauds out on their idealogical rears ends in the next elections.
They’re throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks....
It’s getting crazy!
Well since it’s not really getting warmer, does this mean we will have MORE chocolate?
Solid bunnies instead of hollow ones?
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