[Lazamataz]

Yup. You guessed it.

CLIMATE CHANGE.

Never mind that humankind would never let cocoa go extinct. GLOBAL WARMING GONNA KILL HERSHEYS!!!!!

So sick to death of this BS.

[Crucial]

Yeah, right. Whatever.

[smileyface]

Women and children hardest hit...

[backwoods-engineer]

Gorebull Warmalcolding: what can’t it do?

[piasa]

...because when the climate changes, it always changes in such as way as to insure that no areas unsuitable for cacao today can become suitable for it to grow in the future...

[piasa]

They’re fighting real dirty now by bringing chocolate into the fight

[48th SPS Crusader]

Doomsday! No chocolate for you 2051!

[BeauBo]

“...have predicted that cacao plants are likely to go extinct as early as 2050 due to climate change.”

Not to worry - they also predict that chocolate eaters will go extinct by 2049, due to the sky falling, and the disastrous effects of unchecked continental drift.

[exPBRrat]

I’m calling BS!

[stylin19a]

cripes...do they have to do this every year ?

Chocolate is now grown around the globe—typically within 10° north and south of the equator. The world's leading producers are Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Indonesia. Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana produce over half of the world's chocolate. But research highlighted in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability report indicates that, under a “business as usual” scenario, those countries will experience a 3.8°F (2.1°C) increase in temperature by 2050, and a marked reduction in suitable cultivation area.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-and/climate-chocolate

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"Scientists Expect Chocolate to Go Extinct by 2050"

Chocolate?

[rockrr]

In the year 2525....if man is still alive...

[Steve_Seattle]

Last summer I was watching same “nature” show and a graphic passed across the screen claiming that - because of global warming - 150 or 200 plant and animal species become extinct every DAY. I did the math at the time, and it came out to about 60,000-70,000 extinctions a year. I wondered how many of these extinctions they could identify with any degree of certainty, and my guess was probably fewer than 100 of the alleged 60,000.

[Steve_Seattle]

According to global warming alarmists, global warming will kill everything except dangerous insects and viruses, which will somehow thrive.

[Steve_Seattle]

Short-term weather anomalies can wreak havoc with crops, but I don’t see how a one-degree change in annual temperature is going to kill a species. Does it matter to a cacao plant if the average temp is 82 degrees instead of 81 degrees?

[TheNext]

SCIENTIST STUDY TAX 25%

is needed to protect you from global disasters.

The extinct Dodo Bird was the savior of mankind.
It is now dead.
The Cocoa plant is near extinction too.

We scientists just need only a 25% tax on your money. But we will save you from global danger!

[null and void]

Hmmm, something that is only commercial grown within 10 degrees of the equator won’t be able to survive 15 degrees from the equator if the climate gets warmer?

I’m calling BS, I am...

[BeauBo]

If you peons still refuse to submit to our authority and turn over your wealth, we shall also predict the extinction pizza - and if necessary, beer.

Don’t make us do it. Submit now.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You start hoarding chocolate for me, and I’ll start hoarding Sammiches for you - and we’ll swap in a covert location at a future date! ;)

[Phil DiBasquette]

Do what we did with the huge manatees

Clone them

[Rebelbase]

No worries. By 2050 chocolate will easily be synthesized in home kitchen food replicators.