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.
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if the impact on coffee and the 2050 predictions are as good as the al gore, we're all gonna die by 2012 predictions, then we have nothing to worry about...
ReplyDeletein re "what happened don", US reputation, and china. stupid people think stupid things. is it surprising that stupid people don't understand geopolitics when they don't even know how to manage their own finances (new levels of debt and issues and nothing for retirement), relationships (increasing divorce even in the face of less marriage), and health (obesity, diabetes, anxiety, etc). polls simply show us where people are stupid.
i'd expect europeans to rate the US low because we are tired of subsidizing european nations and are requiring you to grow up... 1946 until today is long enough. and we are tired of providing for their defense too. either defend yourselves or take your chances. being nice to russia is all you have to do... that and hope poland can hold them back... nice strategy
as for china, if people like so much, go there. they need people because they ruined their own demographics with leftist polices... just don't let them think you are a Uyguhr... real genocide
oh, how did you respond when you took the poll?
ReplyDeleteHow much a decent Latte at Costa costs now, think it’s already happening.
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