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Climate change could lower the quality of your coffee
CNN ^ | June 21, 2017 | By Nancy Coleman

Posted on 06/22/2017 5:26:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

What will it take for people to care about climate change? For some, the thought of a crummier cup of coffee in the morning just might do it.

A new study finds that Ethiopia, the world's fifth-largest coffee producer, could lose up to 60% of its suitable farming land by the end of this century because of climate change.

The study, published Monday in Nature Plants, found the combination of low rainfall and rising temperatures could have substantial effects on the coffee-growing areas in the country.

According to a report from World Coffee Research, the demand for coffee will have doubled by 2050, but the suitable land to grow it on will be cut in half.

And the effects of climate change don't just lower how much coffee is produced -- they can also hamper its quality.

In areas with lower temperatures, coffee quality is generally higher, World Coffee Research spokeswoman Hanna Neuschwanker told CNN.

"The problem is coffee producers aren't paid enough, so helping them adapt to a very difficult complex, changing situation like you see with climate change and extreme weather events is very, very difficult to do," Neuschwanker said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakenews; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shut the power off at CNN! Save the planet!


41 posted on 06/22/2017 6:01:44 AM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Maceman; artichokegrower

Perhaps, the Dept. of Genetics at CalState Humboldt will provide an update on their work to genetically modify Cannabis so that it has coffee flavors.


42 posted on 06/22/2017 6:04:20 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure, publicize this lie far and wide to justify raising the cost of coffee.


43 posted on 06/22/2017 6:05:03 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What do Ethiopians and Yoko Ono have in common?
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They both live off dead Beatles.


44 posted on 06/22/2017 6:05:11 AM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: a fool in paradise

The trend is your friend until the bend.


45 posted on 06/22/2017 6:08:02 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I the last cup of Ethiopian coffee I had was...never!


46 posted on 06/22/2017 6:09:32 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Wake up and smell the Covfefe.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change could lower the quality of your coffee

It COULD make your feet stink too... then again unicorns can too.

47 posted on 06/22/2017 6:11:21 AM PDT by GOPJ (James Hodgkinson a Bernie Sanders true believer)kicks off Resistance Summer by shooting Republicans)
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To: Leaning Right
A new study finds that Ethiopia, the world's fifth-largest coffee producer, could lose up to 60% of its suitable farming land by the end of this century because of climate change.

Oklahoma State University initiated a farming program in 1955 in Ethiopia, and it was a great success. Ethiopia quickly became a net food exporter. Then, of course, the new Socialist government came along and decided that it knew better how to manage the land, and they've been infamous for starvation ever since.

Most global food shortages are NOT due to geography and geology, but are due to government and local thugs and the desire for some people to control all others. Zimbabwe was known as "the breadbasket of sub-Saharan Africa" for decades, and now they cannot feed themselves... again, not because of farming land or techniques, but because government "got involved".

48 posted on 06/22/2017 6:12:21 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“A new study finds that Ethiopia, the world’s fifth-largest coffee producer, could lose up to 60% of its suitable farming land by the end of this century because of climate change.

The study, published Monday in Nature Plants, found the combination of low rainfall and rising temperatures could have substantial effects on the coffee-growing areas in the country.”

Could and could. In other words, crapola.

Here’s a thought. By eliminating the NY Times, the Washinton Post, the LA Times and the Boston Globe, as well as most left wing publications including Time, Newsweek, Salon and the Atlantic thousands of trees can be saved every year to soak up the additional carbon that the coffee industry will need to keep their crops alive.

Basically, what do you want more? A good morning cup of Joe or the editorial page from the NY Slimes? Personally, I choose coffee because I read the morning paper on my cell phone.


49 posted on 06/22/2017 6:12:39 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("“In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God.”" DJT)
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To: Teacher317

Well said.


50 posted on 06/22/2017 6:13:01 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Could”.


51 posted on 06/22/2017 6:18:36 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Tough luck for the Ethiopians...someother countries will find that they then have ideal coffee growing climates.

Funny though, that I never encountered Ethiopian coffee in the retail market though the article touts it has having 20% of the world market...must be Proctor & Gamble buying all their crap coffee.


52 posted on 06/22/2017 6:24:25 AM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: abclily

I suggest that elected official who are worried about climate change take the next step and stare down the sun until it bows to their wishes. Usually takes at least a half an hour.


53 posted on 06/22/2017 6:29:40 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Or not.....

Doom porn.


54 posted on 06/22/2017 6:33:45 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

However climate change will reduce snowshoe accidents


55 posted on 06/22/2017 6:38:26 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcherhttp://www.stone)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seems to me like they are setting us up with a prearranged excuse to raise the price of coffee again. I’m not getting any bargain at the present prices,so SOMEBODY is making money on it. I think that any money given to offset climate change must come with a guarantee,but I think they know it won’t be affected much no matter what we pay towards the effort.


56 posted on 06/22/2017 6:39:07 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
It could also improve the quality of your coffee. Who knows?
After all, since coffee grows in warmer climes, we might soon be able to grow some really nice coffee in the mountains of Vermont.

57 posted on 06/22/2017 6:41:14 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is that first pic. Jon Ossoff the morning after Election Day?


58 posted on 06/22/2017 6:43:37 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: ptsal

Back in the 70s I bought a pack of strawberry rolling papers that were quite tasty! Never found them again...


59 posted on 06/22/2017 6:50:12 AM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: abclily

b-b-b-but the science is settled... /s


60 posted on 06/22/2017 6:52:47 AM PDT by Made In The USA (Next thing you know, 'ol Jed's a millionaire)
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