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Journal Gazette Story on Pending Coffee Collapse Is Long on Alarm but Short on Facts: Coffee Production Is Growing
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H. Sterling Burnett -
July 1, 2021 0
 

An article in Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (credited to the Washington Post as the original source) highlighted by Google News today in a search for the term “climate change,” claims global warming is threatening a coffee crisis. This is false. Across its range, coffee production and yields per acre have been setting records with regularity during the recent period of modest warming.

The author of the article, titled “Climate change puts coffee at risk,” says the world’s coffee growers fear coffee production will suffer due to climate change, unless new varieties of coffee beans are developed.

“Climate change could spell disaster for coffee, a crop that requires specific temperatures to flourish and that is highly sensitive to a range of pests. So scientists are racing to develop more tenacious strains of one of the world’s most beloved beverages.

https://climaterealism.com/2021/07/journal-gazette-story-on-pending-coffee-collapse-is-long-on-alarm-but-short-on-facts-coffee-production-is-growing/

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