Posted on 02/22/2023 4:53:44 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CNN - Something to consider as you search for happy hours to celebrate National Margarita Day: The delicious concoction’s main ingredient is threatened by changing weather and new strain on the agave plant’s vital pollinator – the bat.
Agave-based liquor like tequila and mezcal was the fastest growing spirits category in 2022, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the US. Analysts even say it might soon surpass vodka as the best-selling liquor in the country.
But scientists from around the world have made it clear that climate change-fueled water shortages will continue to put enormous pressure on food production. Wine and spirits, unfortunately, are not spared from that forecast. A 2019 study found that the climate crisis, coupled with overgrazing from cattle ranching and other human activities, may disrupt the distribution and cultivation of agave, the main ingredient of tequila.
While agave is a drought-tolerant plant that can thrive in hot weather with little to no water, Omanjana Goswami, a food and environment scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the life cycle of agave is too fragile to endure the major weather whiplash the climate crisis is generating – from extreme drought to deadly storm deluges like the one California just experienced.
“Agave is a desert plant, so of course, anything that is moving towards that desert-like weather is going to help this crop thrive,” Goswami told CNN. “But unfortunately, climate effects are not linear. It doesn’t mean that as temperatures warm that will remain consistent.”
“With extreme weather in conjunction with unpredictability, it’s so hard to predict where this is going to go in the future,” she added.
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Remember James O’Keefe got CNN recorded saying after the Russia Collusion operation their next propaganda campaign would be climate change.
This is all nonsense and lies. Planned and executed.
OK...this chit is getting series.
Oh heavens no. What will Jimmy Buffet and the Parrotheads ever do?
Ahem. They live next to an ocean and a gulf. Maybe scientists haven’t discovered them yet.
I have to say, I love these posts. Perfect pictorial commentary.
Sorry, CNN, but that is old climate fear porn. Get off your woke lazy Dorkbamaholes and get out there and get some new climate fear porn. Remember your motto, “We’re CNN, we have no bottom to our depravity.”
I stubbed my toe last night. I’m SURE it was because of global warming (Climate change).
OHMIGAWD! Not tequila!
“Omanjana Goswami, a food and environment scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists,”
The Union of concerned scientists is concerned.
I can almost hear Goebbels saying it.
Breaking news: Deserts have a Shortage of Water!
Loads of Agave in my (FL) back yard/ They take 8 years to bloom. I have no complaints. Loads of mangoes coming from my trees this year. (buyers can FR mail me)
“... it might soon surpass vodka as the best-selling liquor in the country.”
Since we ‘imported’ millions of tequila drinkers from the southern regions, tequila sales in those countries has most likely plummeted.
EC
The end must be near. The weather changes all the time but that’s climate change now. We must stop eating meat and change over to insects. Stop driving your car and start walking or ride a bike. If you are over 60 you should kill yourself. These people are only trying to save us from ourselves.
tequila ,YUCK
“it’s so hard to predict where this is going to go in the future”
...BUT we know it is all bad and only a complete worldwide Marxist revolution can save us.
snice when di people just start drinking tequila and mezcal in 2022??? damn gen z’ers
Tequila is like champagne in that it can only be made in one small region and legally be sold under that name. There are American companies that sell the same liquor but they don’t dare call it tequila (or any of tequila’s many nicknames, like “ta-kill-ya) or the Mexikins will sue their pantalones off. However, they all make their hootch from Mexican-grown agave, so if there’s agave problems in Mexico, there’s also agave problems in the US.
Bats, BTW, also are the primary pollinators of bananas. Mexico exports upwards of $300 million in bananas every year, so they’ve got a lot riding on the flying rats. There’s even a guy they call “The Bat Man of Mexico” running around trying to convince people (especially the superstitious ones) that they have a vested interest in the bats’ thriving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Medell%C3%ADn#Media_presence
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