After the story gets done telling us how it is getting warmer and allowing coffee to be grown on even more land, and how “climate change”, meaning man-induced, is making it wet and dry, windy and calm, we get
Only arabica beans are grown in Costa Rica, taking advantage of the volcanic soil at high elevations to produce some of the world’s most sought-after coffee.
Farmers learned long ago to negotiate the country’s microclimates. Now they must adapt to new changes.
On the slopes of Volcano Poás, the biggest threats are colder nights, fiercer winds and rain that falls too hard and at the wrong times. Temperatures at Flores’ coffee farms on Poás used to stay above 60 degrees at night, but now are dropping to 52 degrees. He also has planted more rows of Indian cane and other trees as windscreens.
Many young coffee plants that should be lush and preparing to burst with fruit remain withered and unproductive, he says.
Just a couple of miles away are healthy coffee trees that have escaped the wind and cold. Some are still producing robustly at the ripe old age of 30 years.
These people do really think you’re idiots. Climate is not stagnant, and never will be.
