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Climate change could shrink chocolate production: report
Los Angeles Times ^
| 10/12/11
| Tiffany Hsu
Posted on 10/12/2011 9:07:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Scientists say climate change will eventually claim many victims -– including, according to a new report, chocolate.
As temperatures increase and weather trends change, the main growing regions for cocoa could shrink drastically, according to new research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
Ghana and the Ivory Coast –- which produce more than half of the global cocoa supply –- could take a major hit by 2050.
Currently, the optimal locations to grow the crop are about 330 feet to 820 feet above sea level, with temperatures of about 72 degrees Fahrenheit to 77 degrees. That range will soar to 1,500 feet to 1,640 feet in four decades to compensate for hotter weather.
Cocoa production, which reached about $9 billion from 2008 to 2009 and accounts for 7.5% of the Ivory Coast’s gross domestic product and 3.4% of Ghana’s, could be in for a heavy slide.
Peter Gleick, a MacArthur fellow and chief executive of the Pacific Institute, bemoaned the potential decline of the sweet treat last week in an open letter to climate change skeptics in Forbes.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chocolate; climate; climatechange; globalwarming; gorebullwarming; junkscience; production; shrink; shrinkage
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To: NormsRevenge; Ernest_at_the_Beach
Blame Ray Nagin's chocolate hurricane.
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posted on
10/12/2011 12:45:06 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who belong in jail.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"It’s getting crazy!"
You got that right. Meanwhile Britain is bracing for another cold long winter. Looks like the kiddies will not forget what snow looks like.
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posted on
10/12/2011 12:49:11 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
10/12/2011 12:56:45 PM PDT
by
ShorelineMike
(Constituo, ergo sum.)
To: GSWarrior
skinnier M&Ms
N&Ns?
Worse!!
L & Ls! They will of course be called LOLs in a brilliant marketing move.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It’s getting crazy!"Getting"?
The "climate change" fraud has relied on simple-minded insanity from the beginning.
To: ShorelineMike; skr; Mama Shawna; Gabz; T Minus Four; vandy; ssaftler; trussell; fnord; ...
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posted on
10/12/2011 1:26:56 PM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Talk about your headline grabbing scare tactics
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posted on
10/12/2011 1:49:26 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: NormsRevenge
Oh fer cryin’ out loud!
The sky is falling, the sky is falling. These people will do anything, say anything, and use any possible scare tactic they can think of to get support for their ginned up bogus BS (think SHS)..........
BAH - a pox on all of them!
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posted on
10/12/2011 2:22:54 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
My post 48 was meant for you as well, sorry :)
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posted on
10/12/2011 2:28:12 PM PDT
by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
This would help a lot of dieters. ;’)
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posted on
10/12/2011 4:33:21 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: NormsRevenge; 11B40; A Balrog of Morgoth; A message; ACelt; Aeronaut; AFPhys; AlexW; ...
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posted on
10/14/2011 10:04:40 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Occupy Atlanta General Assembly: We are worthless losers. WE ARE WORTHLESS LOSERS!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; BykrBayb; trisham; pandoraou812; DJ MacWoW; little jeremiah
Well, no, because some of us know the truth about *climate change*. Nevertheless, this could be a catastrophe of epic proportions.
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posted on
10/15/2011 5:00:55 AM PDT
by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: NormsRevenge
Climate change could shrink chocolate productionHmmm...is coffee production in danger from anything that actually EXISTS?
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posted on
10/15/2011 3:40:49 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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