Comments on: Coffee, Climate Change and Canaries http://www.bloggle.com/2008/07/coffee-climate-change-and-canaries/ Coffee & Commentary Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: deCadmus http://www.bloggle.com/2008/07/coffee-climate-change-and-canaries/#comment-46926 deCadmus Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:41:48 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/2008/07/coffee-climate-change-and-canaries/#comment-46926 Hi, Julie. Thanks for your note, and the link (which I turned into a regular 'ol http link 'cause some folk are disinclined to click on tinyurls.) Mexico and Uganda are, of course, not facing the threat of climate change alone. There have been additional studies that <a href="http://www.ineedcoffee.com/04/globalwarming/" rel="nofollow">place India squarely under the heat lamp</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/74602/" rel="nofollow">Colombia</a>, <a href="http://www.planetark.com/avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=49014" rel="nofollow">Costa Rica</a> and even <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2001/06/44283" rel="nofollow">Jamaica</a> where growers and exporters are concerned that the legendary Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee may have already forever lost its flavor due to a changing growing climate. Nor pretty, indeed. Hi, Julie.

Thanks for your note, and the link (which I turned into a regular ‘ol http link ’cause some folk are disinclined to click on tinyurls.)

Mexico and Uganda are, of course, not facing the threat of climate change alone. There have been additional studies that place India squarely under the heat lamp, as well as Colombia, Costa Rica and even Jamaica where growers and exporters are concerned that the legendary Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee may have already forever lost its flavor due to a changing growing climate.

Nor pretty, indeed.

]]> By: Julie http://www.bloggle.com/2008/07/coffee-climate-change-and-canaries/#comment-46924 Julie Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:34:51 +0000 http://www.bloggle.com/2008/07/coffee-climate-change-and-canaries/#comment-46924 I summarized <a href="http://www.coffeehabitat.com/2006/10/coffee_growing_.html" rel="nofollow">a paper on this back in 2006.</a> It focused on the potential for climate change to make coffee growing obsolete in Veracruz, Mexico by 2020 under some typical models. I included a map produced by the U.N. Environment Programme on the impact of a 2 degree C increase in temperature on robusta production in Uganda. Not pretty. I summarized a paper on this back in 2006. It focused on the potential for climate change to make coffee growing obsolete in Veracruz, Mexico by 2020 under some typical models. I included a map produced by the U.N. Environment Programme on the impact of a 2 degree C increase in temperature on robusta production in Uganda. Not pretty.

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