Global warming messes with Peru’s coffee harvest
Posted by at Aug 21st, 2008 in Climate Change
Filed under: Food , Climate Change Everybody has their own unique tipping point at which they come to realize the potential rammifications of climate change. For some, it’s watching An Inconvenient Truth . For others, it’s when German scientists have to shade a glacier to keep it from melting. I think I just passed into a new level of global warming fervor when I heard this news: global warming is throwing Peru’s coffee production into disarray . You can mess with lots of things, but don’t mess with my coffee. For the last few years, Peru’s weather has been so erratic that coffee pickers don’t know when to harvest their coffee beans. This year, the Andean coffee crop matured a full month earlier than last year. Located in the southern hemisphere, Peru has enjoyed the competitive advantage of harvesting it’s coffee crop 6 months before the global arabica harvest. Now, some are worried that they may lose their reliable timing advantage at the hands of climate change. Nothing gets in the way of my morning cup of coffee. Nothing . This global warming aggression will not stand. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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