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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
Many breweries use adjuncts in place of barley. Budweiser uses rice.
Here is a study that says just the opposite so everyone can stand down. Climate change will be good for barley which will lower barley prices and thus beer prices.
https://www.folio.ca/how-barley-is-expected-to-benefit-from-climate-change/
So they finally figured out how to get to the youngsters:-)
Just when I was getting optimistic. More despair, doom and gloom.
I can remember when a quart of Denver Beer was $.25.
I predict that the cost of beer will go up in socialist countries and or union run breweries.
But that is has nothing whatsoever to do with glabal warming.
Other than as an excuse to raise the cost of beer.
I remember when Bush 41 tax raised the price a dollar a 6 pack.
If they would say something that would actually scare us we might pay attention.
Global warming would make IQ’s lower and result in more liberals in the world
That we might pay attention to.
And Budweiser would still suck.
Oh wait...never mind ..it just seems like there are more libtards.
They spew their nonsense vendlessly on every media outlet and late night shows.
So, that it seems like we are in a real life invassion of the body snatchers and or zombie apocalypse.
Obviously foot fungus, psoriasis, and bad television programing increase during Global Warming®.
Butterflies, marijuana, and orgasms love a good ice age.
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great
Too bad there's no such thing as wheat beer.
Grow it in Greenland!
And all we have to do is give you all our money? And we’ll be saved? What a deal!
Electing Liberals who love Nanny Taxes. THAT is what will leave us crying in our more expensive beer.
OMG!!! The farmers of barley are so ignorant, stupid and uninformed that they would never set up new barley fields anywhere that was experiencing less drought than at their present locations!!! Right??? /sarc
That is the same - people are stupid - nonsense as when not long ago they predicted coffee prices were going to go through the sky due to “climate change”, ignoring then as now that coffee is a global enterprise and just when some locales become less favorable for growing coffeee, other locales will become more favorable, and the coffee growing industry will move production.
“Climate change” is not a life killer, it is a life changer.
The “natural world” WILL adapt and so CAN humans, particularly now more than ever in human history.
In a nutshell....
“...perhaps more effective way of communicating the dangers of global warming.”
put another way...
perhaps more effective way of scaring the hell out of dumbass, uneducated, beer drinkers about FAKE global warming.
“In countries like Ireland, where cost of a brew is already high, prices could triple.”
Only if the filthy government artificially raises taxes like they do on gas and everything else.
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