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“So, in compensation for the carbon tax, how about a tax rebate on wine consumption? “
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from Art Goldhammer’s French Politics
http://artgoldhammer.blogspot.com/
Climate and Wine
The French wine industry is threatened, many wine growers feel, by climate change. France’s culture de la vigne is as much an accident of geography as a product of history. For millennia the French climate has been perfect to support a variety of grapes. We have heard for years about the threats to the industry from globalization, but now the globalization menace has a new dimension: other regions may benefit from climate change as France suffers. This year’s unprecedented heat wave is taken as a case in point: it has been hard on the vine growers. Such heat waves are expected to become more frequent as the planet warms.
They can move to Seattle then. 50F and rain -- I don't recall having to don sweats this early (we usually leave the heat off and the windows open until sometime in October).
stop global stupidity.
Probably because they weren't around in 970 A.D.
That should read “French whine-makers...”
Socialists always have an excuse for their failure to perform.
Makes me wonder about their vineyard management. Well managed vineyards take into account canopy (grape leaf cover for the grapes) as well as irrigation and watering scenarios.
California vineyards look forward to that last great burst of sunshine to ensure ripe fruit, proper sugar levels, balanced acidity, etc.
If any of this was real and actually believed, they would NOT have changed it from Global Warming to Climate Change... That says it all for me... When you don’t have a clue what is going to happen in the future, you call it climate change...
“French winemakers fear climate change”
Good reason to start drinking!
Climate change is not the primary threat to French winemakers. The coming imposition of Sharia Law, and the outlawing of winemaking, is.
Just try to buy a 1980, or newer, Persian wine.
The french wine producers should be worrying about global cooling and what that will do to their grapes. This is just a typical hot summer...like that's never happened before!
| Date | High temperature | Low temperature |
|---|---|---|
| August 12, 1996 | 73 | 60 |
| August 12, 1997 | 89 | 64 |
| August 12, 1998 | 95 | 69 |
| August 12, 1999 | 69 | 59 |
| August 12, 2000 | (data missing) | (data missing) |
| August 12, 2001 | 78 | 51 (set the low record for Aug 12) |
| August 12, 2002 | 69 | 57 |
| August 12, 2003 | 102 | 71 |
| August 12, 2004 | 85 | 66 |
| August 12, 2005 | 82 | 55 |
| August 12, 2006 | 66 | 54 |
| August 12, 2007 | 81 | 61 |
| August 12, 2008 | 72 | 62 |
| August 12, 2009 | 83 | 61 |
Also, Mme. Vernay might note that the record low for August 12 for that location was set in 2001.
Furthermore, according to what I have read, many of the most important areas of French wine production had severe problems with cold, wet summers in the 1990s, events which helped drive the prices of some of the great vintages down out of the stratosphere.
“Holiday in Missouri”?
We owe the northern Europe beer culture to climate change (Mander minimum).
Sure, there are tradeoffs...
127 pound cabbage breaks world record
Anchorage Daily News | September 5th, 2009 | RINDI WHITE
Posted on 09/05/2009 7:52:18 AM PDT by skeptoid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2332846/posts
It’s a reparations campaign.
Greenpeace says French wine is at risk without climate pact
Mother Nature Network | August 10, 2009 | Agence France-Presse
Posted on 08/13/2009 1:00:56 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2315329/posts
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