Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
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Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
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Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#2I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#3Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#4I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
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Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#5Can we try altering the crops instead of the climate please?
Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#6I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
Yes. People have laughed but my vineyard in Sitka, Alaska will soon be producing world-class Cabs.
Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#7I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
20 years ago, I don’t think you could make wine in Wisconsin. Today, Wisconsin wine is total garbage. I am morbidly curious about what it tastes like in another 20.
Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#8I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
Yes. People have laughed but my vineyard in Sitka, Alaska will soon be producing world-class Cabs.
How much was the parcel if you don't mind sharing?
I've had similar thoughts regarding Miami near-floodplain real estate - buying land that might hypothetically become the "new coast" based on projections for sea levels over the next 20, 30 years.
Obviously a long shot in terms of ROI but I mean the apparent recent increase in hurricanes in those coastal areas in terms of both intensity and frequency is palpable...
Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#9I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
Yes. People have laughed but my vineyard in Sitka, Alaska will soon be producing world-class Cabs.
> People have laughed but my vineyard in Sitka, Alaska will soon be producing world-class Cabs
I had this discussion with a previous CEO at a company I worked for here in Sweden a few years ago: he (being a type-A personality, and also loving fast sports cars) was very upbeat about global warming, and saw it as an opportunity to take over the Mediterranean role of growing grapes, olives and other foods that needed a warmer climate.
I couldn’t convince him that what will probably happen instead, would be a less predictable climate, with all sorts of micro-effects (such as more rain or extreme weather) making grapes rot on the vine or olives whither in the sudden freezes.
Thinking that the micro-climate of a certain area - affected by land-masses and nearby seas and other specific circumstances - will simply move north and southwards, strikes me as very naive.
Re: Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
#10I couldn't read the whole article, but this has already started with crops more sensitive to climate - namely grapes for wine.
15 years ago a friend in Canada planted many fruit trees that were known not to be able to handle the winters in that part of the country.
Now he enjoys a ton of fruit you "can't grow" in that part of Canada.