Posted on 01/28/2020 5:56:26 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris - For anyone planning to drink their way through the impending climate catastrophe, science has some bad news.
According to a new study by US-based experts, global warming of just two degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) could see the world's wine-producing regions shrink by more than half.
That's the temperature goal laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
With 4C of warming, 85 percent of current wine-producing land would be unable to produce good vintages.
"In some ways, wine is like the canary in the coal mine for climate change impacts on agriculture, because these grapes are so climate-sensitive," said Benjamin Cook, from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cook and his colleagues focused on 11 varieties of wine grape including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Grenache, Merlot and Sauvignon Blanc.
They used archives of each grape variety to model when each would ripen in wine growing regions around the world under three temperature scenarios: 0C, 2C, and 4C warmer than pre-industrial averages.
With 2C of warming and no change in the way wine is processed, 56 percent of established regions were rendered unsuitable for producing wine grapes in the models.
But there may be a ray of hope for despairing connoisseurs: diversity.
If winegrowers switch up their varieties, replacing grapes that thrive in cooler temperatures with warm-weather loving ones, the loss of wine-growing regions at 2C of warming would roughly halve.
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LOL
Nonsense.
Quality grapes for wine grow from Southern CA all the way to WA.
Ok, now I’m sold and on board, we absolutely have to stop global warming!
Women and children hit hardest???
Didn’t they produce wine in England at one time?
Drinking ethanol will kill you a whole lot faster than climate change will.
Yes, everybody KNOWS it is our strength, so is it any surprise it can save our wines? Is there ANYTHING diversity cannot make better?
That’s why the Middle Ages were so terrible. The wine was crap because of the Medieval Warm Period.
Cry me a river...of wine....only a drunken bum is stupid enough to believe this garbage.
Winos hardest hit.
CBD oil is popular. We can drink it as a replacement to wine. In fact, what did people drink before wine was invented?? We just might be able to live without it. Won’t the wine producing regions just shift to a different place if there is a long term change in temperature???
Whining about wine bump.
Lol, makes sense but ergotism had a bit to do with that too.
Oh yes, and can’t science invent a better and more hardy grape for such a scenario???
Nonsense.
Quality grapes for wine grow from Southern CA all the way to WA.
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Also, in general, lower temperatures would hurt wine growing more than higher temps.
If I am not mistaken, most grapes like coastal (and Mediterranean) climates because ocean air and systems keep the nights from becoming as cold as other climates. Increased global temperatures speak nothing toward changing that.
So lets just jump straight over the old and tired reaction to dispute temp increase projections by the alarmist puppets and go straight to the other obvious question. Just like when they said chocolate growing regions would shrink, did they ask AT ALL whether other regions would open up with climate change? For example, maybe they’ll be growing a lot more grapes in British Columbia and the shores of Denmark. heh
That's life.
2 millennia ago it was much warmer and grapes were grown in England and Greenland!
Resale value of your home.
Yep, the Romans.
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