[Cincinna]

“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.

[C210N]

Instead of $trillions spent on cap and tax, lets spend $trillions on blasting huge rockets of black ink to the sun. Upon crashing they will release the ink, causing massive sunspots, and return us to more "normal" climate.

[sionnsar]

The French wine industry is threatened, many wine growers feel

Then again, we don't want more libs. In general, conservatives think and liberals feel. Explains much.

[Lurker]

The French should fear the glut on the wine market more than 'global climate change'. Their crappy over priced product is the problem, not AGW.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Cincinna!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If the French wine industry actually is harmed by ‘Global Warming’ it can be easily replaced by the newly productive English Vinyards, as it was at the time of Henry II and King Richard I.