Will climate change kill off Pinot Noir? Vineyards are ditching grape varieties that can't cope...

Daily Mail ^ | 1/02/15 | Jonathan O'Callaghan

[Brandonmark]

[Steve_Seattle]

"France will stop producing wine because it will become a Muslim country."

I think that is much more likely than that climate change will put an end to Pinot Noir wine production.

[Sans-Culotte]

I can live without wines that are undrinkable.

[The_Reader_David]

Such assertions show how truly clueless the adherents of anthropogenic global warming really are.

Even were their belief true, or were the world to warm, say 4 degrees Celsius for some other reason, the cultivation of pinot noir grapes, and viniculture in general would simply move away from the equator. We’d be considering the virtues of pinots noirs from Yorkshire or the region around Sitka instead of France and California. True, it might kill antipodean wine industry — it’s already the South Island of New Zealand, and only the Australian states along the south coast, NSW, Victoria and South Australia, that produce much wine.

[Wuli]

OMG!!!! It’s a calamity of heroic proportions.