French wines "now have a higher alcohol content, their texture is heavier, there is too much sun in the range of flavours, our wines could lose their souls," the column said.
Posted on 08/13/2009 1:00:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
(Rising temperatures may have a devastating effect on the way French wines are made, destroying the industry.)
French wines, the country's pride, are looking at a grim future failing an ambitious deal on climate change at the upcoming United Nations summit in Denmark, 50 top chefs, winemakers and Greenpeace warned Tuesday.
"Climate change has made vines increasingly vulnerable," the group said in an opinion column in the daily Le Monde.
"Wine," they added, "is the result of an alchemy between a native soil, or terroir, and generations of winemakers. Today this alchemy is in danger."
Because of the global rise in temperatures, French wines "now have a higher alcohol content, their texture is heavier, there is too much sun in the range of flavours, our wines could lose their souls," the column said.
If nothing is done to reduce carbon emissions, the world map of wine would be changed forever with the country's vineyards moving 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) south by the end of the century, they warned.
To survive, French wines needed an ambitious deal by developed nations to reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent by 2020, said the group, which includes chefs Marc Veyrat and Jean-Luc Rabanel and sommeliers Franck Thomas and Antoine Petrus.
"We urge the president and environment minister of the world's top wine-making nation to act with exemplarity at the Copenhagen talks" in December.
I guess you have to have a stick jammed up pretty far to know what that means.
The warmists, having been abandoned by the fickle b**** Science, now must turn towards Alchemy to be saved. Astrology and Phrenology are waiting in the wings if Alchemy can't save the warmists.
France is now surrendering to climate change advocates.
Strange? I would think that you would move NORTH to a cooler climate. Of course I could care less if the French eat crap and die anyway.
French wines "now have a higher alcohol content, their texture is heavier, there is too much sun in the range of flavours, our wines could lose their souls," the column said.
If this is the case, I would like to change my position from global warming skeptic to global warming endorser. Screw France.
I hate wine, but where there is Barley there is beer, “The wine of the Army”, James Jones.
Well, I hear there are some wonderful wines right here in California.
Release the DD Form 180 John F’n.
Sacre bleu! Chefs and wine sippers now making environmental policy with the advice of this incontinent cheese eating huckster. The only french he knows is "wee wee."
Man, we really dodged a bullet there, didn’t we? We’d all be speaking French today, LOL!
Your lucky, John F’n Kerry, He served in Viet Nam didn’t he, was my senator for much to long. You have a chance to escape but my exfellow Massholes, I ran, will be stuck with him.
“France is now surrendering to climate change advocates.”
I think it’s a little hasty to conclude that France is surrendering to the eco-nuts just because of the actions of a few Frenchmen in league with Greenpeace.
French Chefs...is there anything they don’t know?
but it will mean better growing conditions and a return of the English vinyards that were famous during the middle ages. When it was warmer than it is now...and the French still produced wine. This is just another warming whine.
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