Okay, now shit is getting serious.
Well, it's also hitting chocolate, coffee and beer.
If you watch John Oliver, the chocolate part is kind of a good thing even though it sucks for us. Well, not us. I refuse to have anything chocolate after watching that episode.
Fun fact: tons of wheat and corn farmers had shit yields last year in my area. It's not even that the temperature was higher, the weather was just all over the place and it fucked the plants.
Of course, it's government policy to overproduce so much wheat and corn we can feed a substantial chunk of the world, so it'll take longer before the basic staples start getting hit, but just you wait.
And not only will prices skyrocket, but also (at least in countries that allow it) agriculture businesses will take public money as restoration for the loss.
You forgot the part where prices stay high even after the supply recovers.
You're right, my bad! The silver lining is that at least it may induce people to reduce consumption of unhealthy products and prefer quality over quantity.
Wait is wine a commodity?🤔 Legit can't decide.
Scandinavian wine is going to be a thing soon....
Ice wine is already a thing and it is, apparently, produced in Sweden. Although a fraction of what Canada produces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_wine
I've never had it myself, but I keep meaning to try. It's generally not the sort of thing restaurants on here have on their wine list and I hate spending a bunch of money on a bottle of wine only to find that I don't like it.
It's a dessert wine, very sweet
So I have heard, and I love port so I'd probably enjoy it, but it's always a risk.
I think that's just mead
Considering how things have been going for the bees, that might be on its way out, too.
Already is, these guys can get fussy, uncooperative Pinot Noir to ripen in gatdam Skåne!
All that I understood on that page was too keep Môôsës away from my sïstêrs.
I work in very high end restaurants.
Im starting to see wines come from appalations i would never consider to be "good" regions for these grapes, granted they are some of the oldest wine producing regions in the world.
Give it about 5-8 years, regions like champagne or barolo will be surpassed, replaced, and eventually considered low tier wines - though that last part will take a decade or two.
Its simultaneously exciting (yay new "classics"!) And terrifying.
I like this take. Tell me more: Do you think growers from those regions are already thinking ahead and buying up land for vineyards in locations that may do/are doing well in this "new climate"? If so, where are they and/or what are the Appalachians you are referring to? What we might consider New World Wines or something totally left of centre?
Wasn't there something recently, that French wine farmers had a huge overproduction last year, so the government bought up their wine to distill into industrial alcohol to subsidize them?
Why are we enslaving ourselves to farmers that are first to destroy the environment they depend on and then also first to demand government bailouts?
On defense of farmers, why does the French government saving the wine industry a bad thing? They take the overstock that would have otherwise driven the prices to an unsustainable low and covert it into a useful product for another customer base?
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
If one year they need help because of overproduction and the next year they need help because of underproduction, for a product that can be easily stored for years, then we are obviously getting duped.
Here in BC, wine is one of our biggest industries. Winter killed off 99% of our vines. They have been given money to replant and survive, but we might be looking at the end of a major industry if these cold snaps are going to be an annual thing. And it's not like you can just replant and go on as normal, this will take multiple growing seasons to recover. These are some of the best spots for summer seasonal work and a big part of BC tourism, it could all evaporate.
BC?
Maybe french officials will start to notice climate change now...
It's plainly undeniable phenomena like this why idiots have switched from climate denial to climate doomerism.
It's fake and I don't want to do anything about it -> It's real and I don't want to do anything about it
Wine is a waste of grapes
Wait till you find out about the lantern flies in PA and NY
OK spill
As someone in PA lantern flies aren't actually that bad. Over the last two years I've seen almost none. For a bit there you'd see parking lots full of the fuckers. I don't think they're really a threat, at least around me (Amish-Philly part of PA)
The liberal will finally be scratched by their lack of access to wine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Global wine production reached a historic low in 2023 and climate change could be to blame, a new report has revealed.
Experts blame “extreme environmental conditions” including droughts and fires that have been driving the downward trend in production.
Vines are often cultivated in areas around the world that are strongly affected by and incredibly vulnerable to changes in climate.
These conditions have led to a sharp decline, impacting major wine-producing regions across the northern and southern hemispheres.
Heavy rainfall causing mildew in central and southern regions alongside flood and hail damage led to the smallest production volume since 1950.
Experts have warned that regular droughts could become the ‘new normal’ across the Mediterranean by mid-century if we don’t act on climate change immediately.
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Good, fuck the wine industry. They take up all this land that could be natural habitat for a luxury product, and then force migrant farmers to work in the smoke during the fire season.
Hate to break it to you, but pretty much all of capitalist society is built upon the conditions you describe.
"Abusing workers is okay because I have a hard-on for capitalism."
Maybe stop drugging yourselves with alcohol so it's not necessary to go through this? Really...what's up this humans needing fucking poison to enjoy hanging out with friends...?
I think you're missing the point to such a degree it's almost mind blowing.
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