Today’s bit of Cult of Climastrology doomsaying
CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS COULD MEAN THE END OF COFFEE BEANS
The world never looks quite as grim with a cup of coffee in hand. But coffee, like all agricultural products, could be thrown into upheaval by climate change, making an already terrifying situation even bleaker. And a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a different perspective on the challenges that may block coffee fiends from a good cup of their necessary beverage.
When looking at the risks of climate change, two key factors have to be taken into account. The first is whether the species you’re worried about—coffee plants, in this case—can withstand temperature and precipitation changes to their habitat.
Newsweek even provides a helpful photo of Hillary Clinton drinking a cup of coffee. Probably to wash down the pills that keep her from collapsing like at the 9/11 observation in 2016.
The new study takes a different approach—it looks at the fate of bees, which pollinate coffee plants. When we think about bees, we tend to picture the basic honey bee, hive-dweller and agricultural superstar. But there are actually thousands of species of bees, which each fit into an ecosystem.
In addition to mapping how coffee-suitable habitat in Central and South America may shift with climate change, the scientists looked at how bee-suitable habitat may shift, then they combined those factors.
The coffee habitat predictions are grim: The scientists think good coffee ground in 2050 will span only a fifth to a quarter of current coffee-friendly habitat. That’s a more dire picture than global estimates have suggested.
And in 2050 we’ll find out that there are record coffee crops, because Warmist models and doomsaying have failed about 95% of the time. Eh. Warmists, if they’re still around, will probably tell us record crops are linked to ‘climate change’, as well.
