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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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chocolate; climate; climatechange; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; junkscience; production; shrink; shrinkage
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O o . .. This is getting hugh and series..
Will we need to get used to smaller chocolate Easter bunnies, skinnier M&Ms.. ?
Developing.. 8-0
To: NormsRevenge
ALL RIGHT.....THIS HAS GONE WAAAAY TOO FAR,NOW....:P
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:09:57 AM PDT
by
gimme1ibertee
("Criticism......brings attention to an unhealthy state of things"-Winston Churchill)
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:09:57 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
Yeah, global cooling is bad for tropical plants...
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:10:11 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
To: NormsRevenge
O o . .. This is getting hugh and series..
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:11:06 AM PDT
by
dragonblustar
(Allah Ain't So Akbar!)
To: NormsRevenge
Michelle Obama just sent a tractor trailer to Hersheys as I type.
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:12:04 AM PDT
by
mk2000
To: gimme1ibertee
but wait, there are substitutes under development..
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:12:14 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
who is supplying the food for these ‘tards?
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:13:43 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Sarah you broke my heart~!! Endorse Cain and all is forgiven)
To: dragonblustar
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:13:45 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(DEFEAT BARAQ 2012 DEPORT BARAQ 2013)
To: NormsRevenge
No worries, Willard Mitt Wonka will save us all from this calamity by mandating cocoa deprivation insurance.
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:15:23 AM PDT
by
rfp1234
(RFP's Law: Whoever blames Bush first shall lose the argument.)
To: NormsRevenge
By 2050 I’ll be dead so who cares!
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:17:44 AM PDT
by
McGavin999
(Please don't be a Freeploader, help to keep the lights on.)
To: NormsRevenge
NO!
this GloBULL warning CR@P!, Is gettin' outa' hand
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:17:48 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(I can take tomorrow, spend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
To: NormsRevenge
Do women know about chocolate shrinkage?
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:18:46 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
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To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:19:14 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:20:14 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
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To: NormsRevenge
Ok. Add it to the
list then. It's a long list.
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:20:41 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: gimme1ibertee
Women, minorities and third world starvation trumped by a chocolate shortage. It's like Khadafi drawing a line in the sand back in the 80’s and 90’s!
Pathetic!
Although I have stocked up on 70% cocoa powder. Just saying.
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:21:37 AM PDT
by
poobear
(Facts, the TURD in the punchbowl of Liberal thought!)
To: NormsRevenge
Huh, I wonder what another ice age will do to those production stats?
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:23:09 AM PDT
by
exPBRrat
To: dragonblustar
That’s a lotta junkage in the trunkage!
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:24:15 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: NormsRevenge
chilluns and minorities hurt most.
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posted on
10/12/2011 9:27:42 AM PDT
by
ken21
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