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Now It's Serious: Climate Change May Impact Beer Supplies

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Yep, that's right. Drought will impact barley crops (and others, of course) and will drive up the cost of beer. Yields and quality are both likely to suffer, impacting costs and availability. In the most extreme scenarios, the price of beer will double by 2100; regional factors will compound this, e.g. the cost of beer in Ireland could rise by 193%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ng-climate-change-closes-in-on-beer-drinkers/

Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...ign=Feed:+nplants/rss/current+(Nature+Plants)

The authors only looked at barley, which means the real impact will probably be much greater due to similar increases in hops, and probably water as well.

Of course, this is really just an indicator of potential issues facing all crops. Still, you've been warned.
 
The moment bourbon is harmed, I'm going after the Koch brothers.
 
Visbek said:
Yep, that's right. Drought will impact barley crops (and others, of course) and will drive up the cost of beer. Yields and quality are both likely to suffer, impacting costs and availability. In the most extreme scenarios, the price of beer will double by 2100; regional factors will compound this, e.g. the cost of beer in Ireland could rise by 193%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ng-climate-change-closes-in-on-beer-drinkers/

Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...ign=Feed:+nplants/rss/current+(Nature+Plants)

The authors only looked at barley, which means the real impact will probably be much greater due to similar increases in hops, and probably water as well.

Of course, this is really just an indicator of potential issues facing all crops. Still, you've been warned.
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Beer was invented in Mesopotania (now Iraq) and heavily brewed in ancient Egypt, both hotter places than Ireland!
 
People should be drinking wine anyway...
 
Visbek said:
Yep, that's right. Drought will impact barley crops (and others, of course) and will drive up the cost of beer. Yields and quality are both likely to suffer, impacting costs and availability. In the most extreme scenarios, the price of beer will double by 2100; regional factors will compound this, e.g. the cost of beer in Ireland could rise by 193%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ng-climate-change-closes-in-on-beer-drinkers/

Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...n=Feed:+nplants/rss/current+(Na ture+Plants)

The authors only looked at barley, which means the real impact will probably be much greater due to similar increases in hops, and probably water as well.

Of course, this is really just an indicator of potential issues facing all crops. Still, you've been warned.
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:shock:


Bodhisattva said:
People should be drinking wine anyway...
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First they came for the beer drinkers, but I said nothing because I drank wine...
 
Visbek said:
Yep, that's right. Drought will impact barley crops (and others, of course) and will drive up the cost of beer. Yields and quality are both likely to suffer, impacting costs and availability. In the most extreme scenarios, the price of beer will double by 2100; regional factors will compound this, e.g. the cost of beer in Ireland could rise by 193%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ng-climate-change-closes-in-on-beer-drinkers/

Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...ign=Feed:+nplants/rss/current+(Nature+Plants)

The authors only looked at barley, which means the real impact will probably be much greater due to similar increases in hops, and probably water as well.

Of course, this is really just an indicator of potential issues facing all crops. Still, you've been warned.
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Beer has actually been getting cheaper over the past 60 years

A Historical Look at the Price of Beer
 
Visbek said:
Yep, that's right. Drought will impact barley crops (and others, of course) and will drive up the cost of beer. Yields and quality are both likely to suffer, impacting costs and availability. In the most extreme scenarios, the price of beer will double by 2100; regional factors will compound this, e.g. the cost of beer in Ireland could rise by 193%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ng-climate-change-closes-in-on-beer-drinkers/

Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...ign=Feed:+nplants/rss/current+(Nature+Plants)

The authors only looked at barley, which means the real impact will probably be much greater due to similar increases in hops, and probably water as well.

Of course, this is really just an indicator of potential issues facing all crops. Still, you've been warned.
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On the plus side, it looks like I’ll stop drinking by 2100.
 
Crovax said:
Beer has actually been getting cheaper over the past 60 years
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I'm sure it has, but that doesn't mean that prices will continue to drop, as the climate becomes less favorable to agriculture overall.
 
Malted barley should be treated as the precious resource it is. It gives us both beer AND scotch.
 
ecofarm said:
:lamo
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It's incredible how the stupid keeps flowing, whether it's "Hey it hit 45 degrees last night, what global warming?" or James Inhofe carrying a snowball into the Senate chambers.
Now it's "Hey duh guys in Mesopotamia invented beer and it's hotter than Ireland". :doh
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
It's incredible how the stupid keeps flowing, whether it's "Hey it hit 45 degrees last night, what global warming?" or James Inhofe carrying a snowball into the Senate chambers.
Now it's "Hey duh guys in Mesopotamia invented beer and it's hotter than Ireland". :doh
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Like the question was if it's possible.
 
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[h=1]Climate Beer Goggles[/h][FONT=&quot]Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new entry in the competition for the top spot in the “Climate Change Ruins Everything” competition. This is the claim that “Severe climate events could cause shortages in the global beer supply”, as discussed here on WUWT. YIKES! If true, that is more serious than sea level rise ……
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Visbek said:
I'm sure it has, but that doesn't mean that prices will continue to drop, as the climate becomes less favorable to agriculture overall.
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Most crops actually benefit from climate change as it expands the area of the earth they can be grown in
 
Crovax said:
Most crops actually benefit from climate change as it expands the area of the earth they can be grown in
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Erm... No, it really doesn't.

As this paper tries to illustrate, higher temperatures means more heat waves and droughts. Some crops can tolerate higher temperatures -- but only if there is enough water. That's not an option, though, when higher temperatures result in droughts, as well as limiting water supplies.

Further, land doesn't magically become fertile because temperatures rise. For example, most of the land in northern latitudes has the wrong soil composition for agriculture. In addition, much of it is permafrost, which normally acts as a sink for carbon and methane. If it were possible to somehow convert permafrost to arable land, that would almost certainly result in releasing gigatons of CO2 and CH4, which will cause more warming.

And of course, the planet is likely to lose arable land that is too close to the equator, or impacted by accelerated desertification (e.g. the northern parts of Sub-Saharan Africa).

Any possible benefits, including from additional CO2 feeding plants, is more than offset by these types of factors.
 
Visbek said:
Yep, that's right. Drought will impact barley crops (and others, of course) and will drive up the cost of beer. Yields and quality are both likely to suffer, impacting costs and availability. In the most extreme scenarios, the price of beer will double by 2100; regional factors will compound this, e.g. the cost of beer in Ireland could rise by 193%.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ng-climate-change-closes-in-on-beer-drinkers/

Original article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...ign=Feed:+nplants/rss/current+(Nature+Plants)

The authors only looked at barley, which means the real impact will probably be much greater due to similar increases in hops, and probably water as well.

Of course, this is really just an indicator of potential issues facing all crops. Still, you've been warned.
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Probably only a potential under RCP 8.5 conditions as welll.

You guys love "The Sky Is Falling" tactics. Then you wonder why such things are ignored and ridiculed.
 
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[h=1]Brewers Strike Back at Fake “End of Beer” Climate Change News[/h][FONT=&quot]Guest essay by Eric Worrall Brewers acknowledge climate change might have an impact, but point out that if global warming causes a problem in one region they can just buy their inputs from somewhere else. EVOLVING BEER’S SUPPLY CHAIN IN AN ERA OF CLIMATE CHANGE October 16, 2018 By Bart Watson & Chris Swersey Beer…
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My daughter took a picture of a sign at a bar in Dallas. It said, "PERFECT is a 7-letter word. So is BEEEEER. Coincidence?"
 
Media_Truth said:
My daughter took a picture of a sign at a bar in Dallas. It said, "PERFECT is a 7-letter word. So is BEEEEER. Coincidence?"
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Sounds like a great sign. I'll have to look for it next time I'm in Dallas.
 
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[h=1]Barley, Beer and BS[/h][FONT=&quot] News Analysis by Kip Hansen Oops, can I say that here? BS? Oh, pretend it means “Barley Science.” It does, sort of, especially in this instance. You see, it isn’t really science. It is an even worse word than “BS” — it’s the “P-word”. Luckily, I am not shy about using the P-word —…
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Jack Hays said:
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[h=1]Barley, Beer and BS[/h][FONT="][FONT=inherit] News Analysis by Kip Hansen Oops, can I say that here? BS? Oh, pretend it means “Barley Science.” It does, sort of, especially in this instance. You see, it isn’t really science. It is an even worse word than “BS” — it’s the “P-word”. Luckily, I am not shy about using the P-word —…[/FONT]
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Jack, have I ever told you that Watts only has a High School education?
 
Media_Truth said:
Jack, have I ever told you that Watts only has a High School education?
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Then you'll be reassured to know the author is Kip Hansen.

[FONT=&quot]Author’s Comment Policy:[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]". . . I have been saying on these digital pages for years that many Climate Science stories and journal articles are written primarily as propaganda. Various Junior Defenders of Climate Science always pile on in comments with accusations of groundless charges being made without any proof. Maybe these people will wake up and see the sunset of science in this little example.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]My thanks to Jim Gorman of the New York Times for the details.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Definiton: “Hook” in Journalism: All good stories need a hook—or an interesting angle early in the story—that draws the reader in. In journalism, your hook is what makes the story relevant and grabs the attention of the reader long enough to get them to keep reading.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Competing Interests: The author is a teetotaler and does not drink beer or any other alcoholic beverages, thus has no interests competing with the beer industry."[/FONT]
 
Jack Hays said:
Then you'll be reassured to know the author is Kip Hansen.

[FONT="][U]Author’s Comment Policy:[/U][/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#404040][FONT="]". . . I have been saying on these digital pages for years that many Climate Science stories and journal articles are written primarily as propaganda. Various Junior Defenders of Climate Science always pile on in comments with accusations of groundless charges being made without any proof. Maybe these people will wake up and see the sunset of science in this little example.[/FONT]
[FONT="]My thanks to [URL="https://twitter.com/jimgorman"]Jim Gorman of the New York Times[/URL] for the details.[/FONT]
[FONT="][B]Definiton: “Hook” in Journalism: [/B]All good stories need a [B]hook[/B]—or an interesting angle early in the story—that draws the reader in. In [B]journalism[/B], your [B]hook[/B] is what makes the story relevant and grabs the attention of the reader long enough to get them to keep reading.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#404040][FONT="]Competing Interests: The author is a teetotaler and does not drink beer or any other alcoholic beverages, thus has no interests competing with the beer industry."[/FONT]
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Here's the problem with all your links. Watts cherry picks some statement or paragraph, and posts it on his High Schooler denier site. And he generally totally misrepresents the actual article. Then those of us who are more scientifically inclined, look at it, and say, "Wait a minute that's not what they're talking about". And then you throw out a name, to further exacerbate the problem.
 
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