Posted on 10/16/2018 6:13:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Add beer to chocolate, coffee, and wine as some of life’s little pleasures that global warming will make scarcer and costlier, scientists say.
Increasing bouts of extreme heat waves and drought will hurt production of barley, a key beer ingredient, in the future. Losses of barley yield can be as much as 17 percent, an international group of researchers estimated.
That means beer prices on average would double, even adjusting for inflation, according to the study in Monday’s journal Nature Plants . In countries like Ireland, where cost of a brew is already high, prices could triple.
The findings come a week after a dire United Nations report described consequences of dangerous levels of climate change including worsening food and water shortages, heat waves, sea level rise, and disease.
Study co-author Steve Davis of the University of California, Irvine, said the beer research was partly done to drive home the not-that-palatable message that climate change is messing with all sorts of aspects of our daily lives.
Several scientists who weren’t part of this study said it was sound and perhaps more effective way of communicating the dangers of global warming.
‘‘One of the greatest challenges as a scientist doing research on climate change and food is to illustrate it in a way that people can understand,’’ U.S. Department of Agriculture scientist Lewis Ziska said in an email. Few people would complain if global warming ruined Brussels sprouts, he added.
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So we switch back to wine, what’s the big deal?
whatta dope!
Excuse my impertinence but if the globe is warming, wouldn’t that mean that regions that are too cold for barley to grow in would become warm enough for them to grow in thereby replacing whatever region they are currently growing in that would no longer be able to grow them in?
Goebbels indeed. But, there’s so much rice in mass produced pisswater it won’t matter anyway.
Global warming merely means that hops and barley may be grown in further northerly latitudes than they now are.
And with all the fresh water added to the environment with the melting of the polar ice caps and the last of the glaciers, the third ingredient in beer-making is that much more available.
Now we just have to work on the yeast strains....
THANK YOU!!!!! Someone pointed out the stupidity of the claims before I got the chance.
There is demand. There will be growth.
Hotter temperatures mean more Greenland wine and Irish Barley. Wow.
I'm sorry, I must be really dumb. Could you demonstrate with puppets please? Perhaps you could show on one puppet where Climate Change touched it or something...
My rule that at least one “disaster due to climate change” story appears each day in the science flunkout MSM has now been fulfilled.
>> In countries like Ireland, where cost of a brew is already high, prices could triple.
Nannystatist bullstalin is what that is
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/price-alcohol-ireland-highest-europe-9723558
...The price of booze here is the highest in the Europe and is likely to get even more expensive when new minimum price laws come into force.
The cost of alcohol here is 75% above the European Union with specific drinks often double what they sell for in the likes of Spain and France.
The EU’s official statistics body, Eurostat’s survey on food, beverages and tobacco prices discovered that the price of alcohol in Ireland an incredible 75% higher than the EU average....
And the public could end up paying much more for their drink in the near future if the Public Health (Alcohol) Bill goes through...
Nothing else has worked, so let’s threaten Joe Sixpack’s BEER! THAT’LL scare them!
Give them some more then.
Climate change doesn’t work that way.
If you can no longer grow barley in Misouri, You’ll be able to grow it in North Dakota, Or Alberta. If you can no longer grow barley in Bavaria, you will be able to grow it in Poland, or Finland. Who knows, perhaps New Zealand becomes the world’s largest barley exporter.
But it doesn’t happen anyway. They are proposing drastic climate shifts, which I suggest are thousands of years out, at best, and very likely a natural course of occurrence regardless.
Guess I'll have to switch to Hamms........
As the planet warms and CO2 increases, the growing seasons become longer and the plant have more to ‘eat’. Bonus! We have more oxygen. Which helps increase beer consumption, meaning they will have to produce more beer or we ill all die of thirst!
If we throw out the liberals, beer prices stay the same.
Well, a 6 pack of New Belgium is already 10 bucks...
Government interference and burdensome regulations make beer costlier
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