Another day, another dire prediction from disciples of the Cult of Climastrology. It’s not even unique one, as Warmists have tried this schtick regarding beer for years and years, and it has yet to come to pass. In fact, beer in some form has been around since around 12,000 years ago, and production of it has gone through multiple cool and warm periods during the Holocene, and some of those warm periods were warmer than today. Beer similar to today’s dates back around 5,000 years ago, and we still have warm periods. But, hey, the CoC needs to continue to attempt to scare people, which they do every few months
(EcoWatch) As any beer lover knows, hops are a key ingredient in beer. But now, climate change poses a threat to hops production, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (snip)
But many worry how the industry will fare in the future. Most growers were able to adapt to last year’s water shortages by relying more heavily on groundwater supplies and other sources, George said. So, Yakima Valley hops growers were able to “beat the 2015 summer heat,†NOAA said, but they may not be as lucky in the future. (snip)
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project last year’s unusual warmth will be the “new normal†in the decades to come, Guillaume Mauger, a research scientist with the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group, told NOAA. And while total precipitation isn’t expected to change much, more and more winter precipitation will fall as rain rather than snow, decreasing snowpack and threatening the area’s water supply. (snip)
It was already bad enough that climate change will diminish worldwide supplies of chocolate, wine and coffee. Now, beer too.
You keep typing that but according to the evidence it’s highly unlikely to be true, not to mention irrelevant to your argument (see below).
That’s just untrue. The first recorded history of hops in brewing was in 822 AD.
And the gist of the article you linked was about the effects of global warming on hops cultivation.
So ancient man was drinking his naturally fermented beer without the benefit of hops and probably wasn’t producing millions of gallons of the stuff.
The 100,000 tons of cultivated hops produced each year require pretty particular climatic conditions. In fact, The Boston Beer Company brews an India Pale Ale called Latitude 48 as much of the Northern Hemisphere’s hops are grown in a belt at approximately this latitude. As the climate rapidly changes I can only hope the hop growers can migrate further north to find the proper conditions!! Of course there is more to proper conditions than just temperature. The soil conditions need to be just right too. The amount of precipitation, the types of native insects (both good and bad), Wow, this whole global warming thing is complicated. We understand why you just deny that anything is happening.
Do you think brewers can be added to the list of climate hoaxers?
According to the terribly written article:
2015 shattered global temperature records,…
Stopped reading after that.
2015 exceeded global temperature records…
Better?
And it’s quite likely that 2016 will exceed 2015!!
But the Deniers are in luck because a new “pause” will start in 2017 or 2018, which curiously (to Deniers) will still be warmer than most previous years. When will the Earth start to cool from this “natural” variability?
But it’s all a hoax. Sea levels are NOT rising, Arctic ice is NOT melting, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are NOT melting, the seas are NOT warming and the normal ranges of flora and fauna are NOT changing! It’s all a hoax perpetrated by the One World Government cabal that includes every government, every major scientific organization, every major religion, most humans, and most major corporations. Thank Allah for the brave Deniers, coincidentally mostly white, Western world, conservative Christians. Why is that?
The little guy left out El Nino.
– Mike van Biezen
There. I gave you the citation and pasted it here for you, as you were surely getting ready to copy and paste again.
The average global temperature for the last 10 years is approximately 0.35 degrees centigrade higher than it was during the 1980’s. — True! But not the whole story. The Earth has warmed about 1 degree centigrade in the past century! That is an incredibly rapid rate of warming! There is absolutely no reason to think the increase will stop anytime soon.
The global warming community has exploited these facts to “prove†that human activity (aka burning of fossil fuels) is the cause of these increasing temperatures. — False. You can’t prove or even “prove” that burning fossil fuels is the cause of these increasing temperatures! Scientists know this even if Mr. van Biezen doesn’t (he purports to be a physicist, not a scientist). But you can accumulate evidence consistent with the theory of AGW and absent any evidence to the contrary (Mars is warm! CO2 is plant food! The Earth was warmer 4 billion years ago! It’s a hoax! are not examples of evidence), the theory remains not proven, but unfalsified.
But no direct scientific proof or data has been shown that link the current observations to human activity. — What direct scientific proof would you find persuasive? No direct scientific proof or data has been shown that link the lung cancer to cigarette smoking. Sure there’s lots of epidemiological data. Sure cigarette smoking produces compounds shown to transform normal cells in culture and even induce tumor formation in laboratory animals. But what’s the direct scientific proof that cigarette smoking causes cancer? As Dr. Rush Limpballs once asked on his nationally broadcast radio show, “If cigarettes cause cancer why doesn’t every smoker get cancer??”
The link is assumed to be simply a fact, with no need to investigate or discuss any scientific data. — True and false. The link IS assumed to be a fact based on the overwhelming data and evidence, as that’s the way science works. But investigation into global warming continues as there is still much to be learned. And you’ll find climate realists always eager to discuss scientific data, but as you see here at the Pirate, Deniers have little to discuss.
Little guy sure likes to use a lot of conjecture when trying to prove something. However, there is still no direct scientific proof or data that links current observations to humankind.
So why did little guy leave out El Nino?
“Do you think brewers can be added to the list of climate hoaxers?” Didn’t see brewers saying anything one way or another. It was NOAA. Can you read? But anyway, there’s enough climate hoaxers to go around for a lifetime.
Funny, there’s a limitless list of “bad” things that “may” or “could” or “might” or “supposed” to happen, but yet nothing bad has happened. The climate circus continues.
Wait, what? It was the NOAA who told us that the western drought had nothing to do with climate change. Now the NOAA is saying that hops are threatened because of climate-change-caused drought???? I guess anything goes in this new science.
I just plotted the mean annual temperature anomaly for the nearest temperature station to Oregon’s hop growing region. I chose Newport station.
That station’s annual temperature anomaly has been below mean since 2006. So if there is a problem with hop yields there, it is not due to temperature’s being warmer than normal over the last 9 years. And as explained by the NOAA, the Pac NW drought is caused by The Blob, not climate change.
But like all these articles, the main fearmongering is what will happen in the future if we don’t repent now and join the cult.
puppysucker,
Tell us what you understand about El Nino, please.
Drowning puppies is a proud drinker of BudLight ‘Mericas top seller
He and Teach don’t care about hops whatever they are
BudLight is #1
JGlanyon
Any chance the drought is happening because of an increase in temps in another place say like changing macro wind patterns over the Pacific which is THE source of precipitation in the area you cited?
According to a new NOAA-sponsored study, natural oceanic and atmospheric patterns are the primary drivers behind California’s ongoing drought. A high pressure ridge off the West Coast (typical of historic droughts) prevailed for three winters, blocking important wet season storms, with ocean surface temperature patterns making such a ridge much more likely. Typically, the winter season in California provides the state with a majority of its annual snow and rainfall that replenish water supplies for communities and ecosystems.
“It’s important to note that California’s drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state. In fact, multi-year droughts appear regularly in the state’s climate record, and it’s a safe bet that a similar event will happen again. Thus, preparedness is key,†said Richard Seager, report lead author and professor with Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory.
This report builds on earlier studies, published in September in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, which found no conclusive evidence linking human-caused climate change and the California drought. The current study notes that the atmospheric ridge over the North Pacific, which has resulted in decreased rain and snowfall since 2011, is almost opposite to what models project to result from human-induced climate change.