Climate Change = Crap Tasting Coffee

Climate Change is bringing some scary things with Mother Nature getting ready to ramp it up further but if the thought of us all being wiped out by floods, droughts and extreme weather doesn't do it for you, maybe the thought of missing on on your morning coffee will.
The snappily titled 'UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment' have been pointing to the findings from World Coffee Research that found that by 2050, the land area suitable for Arabica coffee production could shrink by 50% with all of the main production nations in Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia and Colombia becoming increasingly hot and dry and unsuitable for cultivation due to Climate Change.
'Without swift and substantial action, the viability of coffee as a global commodity could be in jeopardy. The impacts are already being felt with global coffee prices surging , driven by weather disruptions in major producing countries' they explained.
Coffee experts (who knew they were a thing?) warn that without both climate mitigation and serious adaptation, coffee will become scarcer and more expensive, with supply chains disrupted and quality eroded, or 'flavour-flation' where taste suffers.
Another snappily titled office, 'The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service' has described Brazil as enduring its: 'most intense and widespread drought in history,' with serious consequences for coffee flowering and yields in the 2024–2025 season and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agree that their own study found that since 2000, increased evaporation driven by higher temperatures underscoring that climate change is intensifying drought beyond simple rainfall shortages.
Dr. Ernesto Méndez, co-director of something called the Institute for Agroecology and professor of agroecology at the University of Vermont, spelt it out that: 'There’s no question that climate change is affecting coffee regions and communities around the world. Coffee shrubs are very sensitive to weather conditions for their development. For a coffee plant to flower, it needs to have just the right amount of moisture and temperature. The right conditions are also necessary for the flowers to set and then become the coffee cherries that are harvested.'
There you go then, join the fight against Climate Change or face the very real prospect of paying much more for a crappy tasting cup of Coffee.