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Global warming 'threat to wine industry'
News.com.au ^
| 8-17-06
| Steve Larkin
Posted on 08/17/2006 8:40:41 AM PDT by toddlintown
AUSTRALIAN wine regions won't be able to grow the grapes they're famous for because of global warming, wine lawyers said today.
Lawyers from Adelaide-based Finlaysons rate climate change as the biggest long-term challenge facing Australia's wine industry.
Wine quality could suffer from reduced harvest times, more extreme weather and reduced water supplies, Finlaysons partner Will Taylor said.
“Climate change is probably the biggest long-term issue facing the wine industry throughout the world and individual Australian winemakers and grapegrowers need to be planning for it now,” Mr Taylor said.
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TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; oenology; wine
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Throw another Gore on the Barbi!
To: toddlintown
Well, NOW they're getting serious!!!
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:42:38 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: toddlintown
Foster's, Australian for wine.
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:43:02 AM PDT
by
A message
(We who care, Can Not Fail)
To: toddlintown
BFD....the U.S. breadbasket couldn't grow wheat and corn when it was a subtropical area with dinosaurs roaming over it or when it was covered in glaciers during the Ice Age.
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:43:56 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Violence is ALWAYS a solution. Maybe not the right one....but a solution nonetheless)
To: toddlintown
Well, that means the perfect wine growing climate will end up elsewhere, and a new land will become the place to grow vineyards.
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:43:56 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: toddlintown
Not to mention the ongoing drought in Australia...
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:46:15 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: toddlintown
It has, however, benefited the Whine industry tremendously.
To: toddlintown
and disproving Global Warming is a threat to the whine industry...
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:47:37 AM PDT
by
RedRightReturn
(Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
To: CertainInalienableRights
3 FREAKIN SECONDS!!! GEEZ!
GMTA
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:48:13 AM PDT
by
RedRightReturn
(Even a broken clock is right twice a day...)
To: toddlintown
Similar articles are running on California.
The "wine" industry is not in any danger. Regionla industries may have to change the ir varieties but wine as an industry will continue.
I could write an article that says "global warming trend opens up new markets for wine industry"
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:49:45 AM PDT
by
Prysson
To: toddlintown
I'm sure the extended growing season and extra 1-2°F will absolutely devastate the vinyards!
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:50:11 AM PDT
by
TChris
(Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
To: theDentist
Well, that means the perfect wine growing climate will end up elsewhere, and a new land will become the place to grow vineyards.
England would be a good place to grow wine grapes. After all, they used to grow them there until the world cooled...
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:50:29 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: toddlintown
"Throw another Gore on the Barbi!"
On the other hand, Global Warming has been a huge success for the WHINE industry.
To: theDentist
I'm gonna get some beachfront in Antarctica.........
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:54:59 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: toddlintown
OK-it just got serious. Don't be messin' with my vino...
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:59:04 AM PDT
by
ktvaughn
(I avoid cliches like the plague...)
To: toddlintown
Western Iowa used to be a major grape growing area.........things change.
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posted on
08/17/2006 9:00:13 AM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Seeking the truth here folks.)
To: rottndog
I think all these folks are just complaining about the upcoming competition from England. Apparently, the last time wine came from England, it was quite good.
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posted on
08/17/2006 9:02:32 AM PDT
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
To: PeterPrinciple
Drink it while you got it!!!!
To: TheDon
Apparently, the last time wine came from England, it was quite good.
Well then, I can't wait to try some so bring on the global warming!
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posted on
08/17/2006 9:04:05 AM PDT
by
rottndog
(WOOF!!!)
To: toddlintown
We will warm no wine before its time.....
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posted on
08/17/2006 9:06:40 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(Zarqawi died, liberals cried....)
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