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Climate change could shrink chocolate production: report
Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/12/11 | Tiffany Hsu

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 Coast’s gross domestic product and 3.4% of Ghana’s, 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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chocolate; climate; climatechange; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; junkscience; production; shrink; shrinkage
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To: exPBRrat

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://uddebatt.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/recent-9-months-u-s-temperature-trenddecade-7-8-f-cooler-in-100-years/

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/276516/Britain-faces-a-mini-ice-age-

http://antigreen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated


21 posted on 10/12/2011 9:27:56 AM PDT by Elendur (It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. - Thomas Jefferson)
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22 posted on 10/12/2011 9:27:56 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Republican Party should propose heavily subsidized chocolate production...make a pretty good dent in the current “gender gap” advantage the Dems have.
23 posted on 10/12/2011 9:29:53 AM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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To: NormsRevenge
If chocolate production should suddenly decline, I'll load up old Dollar, a couple of pack mules, and get VERY lost in the badlands of New Mexico until after the wars are over.

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

24 posted on 10/12/2011 9:34:11 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: NormsRevenge
I hear that global warming may force Al Gore to turn up the air conditioning in his California mansion.


25 posted on 10/12/2011 9:34:22 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: McGavin999

LOL. I’ll be pushing 95 myself, well, my bones anyway.


26 posted on 10/12/2011 9:39:05 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

“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.


27 posted on 10/12/2011 9:41:57 AM PDT by Ernie Kaputnik ((It's a mad, mad, mad world.))
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh the horror! No really!


28 posted on 10/12/2011 9:49:49 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: dragonblustar

That train’s pulling a big caboose!


29 posted on 10/12/2011 9:56:21 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ('People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook.' Richard M. Nixon)
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To: NormsRevenge
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.

I wonder whether they considered that I might be able to grow my own cocoa plants in NJ.

ML/NJ

30 posted on 10/12/2011 9:57:34 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: NormsRevenge
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.

I wonder whether they considered that I might be able to grow my own cocoa plants in NJ.

ML/NJ

31 posted on 10/12/2011 9:57:58 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Mr. K
who is supplying the food for these ‘tards?

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.

32 posted on 10/12/2011 10:02:05 AM PDT by kevkrom (This space for rent.)
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To: NormsRevenge

So what.... Michelle Obama doesn’t want us to eat chocolate.


33 posted on 10/12/2011 10:08:24 AM PDT by Gator113 (~ Just livin' life~)
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To: NormsRevenge
If there is any truth to this at all, then cocoa production will spring up in other more favorable locations.
This works for all cash crops.
They will grow fine somewhere and if there is profit to be had, someone will figure it out and others will copy.
The only thing that could prevent it is more 'regulation'.

34 posted on 10/12/2011 10:12:58 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: NormsRevenge

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.


35 posted on 10/12/2011 11:04:07 AM PDT by spawn44 (spawn44)
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To: NormsRevenge

They’re throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks....


36 posted on 10/12/2011 11:15:27 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Obama's presidency is shovel-ready; let's bury it in 2012!)
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39 posted on 10/12/2011 12:43:48 PM PDT by steelyourfaith (If it's "green" ... it's crap !!!)
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To: NormsRevenge; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Well since it’s not really getting warmer, does this mean we will have MORE chocolate?

Solid bunnies instead of hollow ones?


40 posted on 10/12/2011 12:44:16 PM PDT by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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