Scientists Expect Chocolate to Go Extinct by 2050

MSN ^ | 1/2/2018 | Elizabeth Sherman

[Lazamataz]

You may love chocolate, but you should probably start preparing yourself to say goodbye to it: Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have predicted that cacao plants are likely to go extinct as early as 2050 due to climate change. But there’s one glimmer hope on the horizon: Mars—the candy company which makes such chocolate treats as the Snickers and the Twix bar—has teamed up with the University of California on a new method that may help save future cacao crops.

[Jewbacca]

It’s been down hill ever since the North Pole completely melted and has been free from ice since 2012.

Er, or so Al Gore told me.*

* Yes, he actually predicted this. Twice.

[sodpoodle]

Wait for it!!!!!

Dark chocolate vs. milk chocolate.

Wonder how soon the liberals will make a ‘racist’ issue of this crisis?

[Crucial]

Yeah, right. Whatever.

[Crucial]

Most of us would be kinda dead by then.

[smileyface]

Women and children hardest hit...

[backwoods-engineer]

Gorebull Warmalcolding: what can’t it do?

[piasa]

...because when the climate changes, it always changes in such as way as to insure that no areas unsuitable for cacao today can become suitable for it to grow in the future...

[piasa]

They’re fighting real dirty now by bringing chocolate into the fight

[48th SPS Crusader]

Doomsday! No chocolate for you 2051!

[BeauBo]

“...have predicted that cacao plants are likely to go extinct as early as 2050 due to climate change.”

Not to worry - they also predict that chocolate eaters will go extinct by 2049, due to the sky falling, and the disastrous effects of unchecked continental drift.

[exPBRrat]

I’m calling BS!

[piasa]

This is just to get the female population on board the AGW train..........

They're really threatening men more than women. We'll just lose our chocolate, men could lose much more. Men will be in grave danger... you'll have to put up with us every month with no chocolate to soothe your tigresses.

[kosciusko51]

+1. Excellent point.

[mowowie]

Next will be bacon becoming extinct....

[Salamander]

They’re desperately hoping that otherwise sane yet hormonal women will lose their minds over this and rush to The Dark Side.

[stylin19a]

cripes...do they have to do this every year ?

Chocolate is now grown around the globe—typically within 10° north and south of the equator. The world's leading producers are Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Indonesia. Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana produce over half of the world's chocolate. But research highlighted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability report indicates that, under a “business as usual” scenario, those countries will experience a 3.8°F (2.1°C) increase in temperature by 2050, and a marked reduction in suitable cultivation area.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-chocolate

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"Scientists Expect Chocolate to Go Extinct by 2050"

Chocolate?

[buffyt]

We have been running water for 24 hours a day, for several days, might be above freezing tomorrow afternoon. We live in the DEEP SOUTH, TEXAS! It got so cold that plants I have had for 44 years are looking half dead. GLOWBULL WARMING MY A55...

[buffyt]

I love your comment! Gorebull Warmalcolding: what can’t it do? May I use it?

Gorebull Warmalcolding: what can’t it do?

[Soul of the South]

“Lol. I read the other day about Al Gores three beachfront properties. Apparently, he isn’t too concerned about it.”

Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the great Hollywood advocates for carbon taxes, also doesn’t seem to be cutting back on his yacht, multiple houses, or private jet trips. However he is fine with restricting use of fossil fuels by the masses who buy the tickets to his films.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2016/03/01/leonardo-dicaprios-carbon-footprint-is-much-higher-than-he-thinks/