Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry

Socguy writes "According to a New Zealand scientist, Jim Salinger, the price of beer in and around Australia is going to be under increasing upward pressure as reductions in malting barley yields are experienced as a side effect of our ongoing climate shift. "It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up," Mr. Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention."

Comments

At last

[tsotha]

At last we have a falsifiable AGW prediction. So if the barley yealds don't go down, that's a strike against AGW, right?

Or are we still discarding data that doesn't fit the theory?

Re:Uh, not due to climate change though...

[Duradin]

Climate change is real.

What is fiction is the extent of man's impact on climate change.

Were there SUVs cruising around back when the glaciers that covered most of the northern U.S. retreated?

Was it coal burning power plants that lead to Greenland being, well, green and the actions of valiant environmentalist that replaced the glaciers there?

What about the climate shifts of the cretacious, cambrion and jurassic ages? Dinosaurs in Cadillacs to blame?

Corn is a poor choice for ethanol. If it was really about the ethanol and not massive subsidies and general price gouging, they wouldn't be using corn for fuel ethanol.

It's nice and all that you're concerned about ecology and conservation (well, not really, you seem concerned about THE ENVIRONMENT!), but I'd rather you were concerned for the right reasons and not the knee jerk reaction hype the media spews.

Re:Trying to regulate every little thing is stupid

[mtgarden]

Umm, well since this global warming theory is still just a theory, how about we get some hard evidence before eviscerating companies? Read this: http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=1b702e93-802a-23ad-406d-20a0e08818af and this: http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22434

Re:Trying to regulate every little thing is stupid

[monxrtr]

Reduce the human population by 90% (preferably using a humane manner; like fewer babies). Instead of 6 billion, you'll have 600 million. There will be plenty of resources for everyone to go around, and pollution will be decreased by 90% of current levels. A higher human population increases wealth. Volcanoes don't erupt fully furnished houses. Oceans don't wash up technological innovation. And the stork doesn't deliver 1.2376 of a baby human being to newlywed couples. There's plenty of resources for 6 billion humans, in spite of all the vast economic damage and waste caused by socialist government policies. See the division of labor.

TFG for the internet. Finally all these so-called "mainstream" liberals and leftists can have their religious doctrines not just exposed, but shattered, by real science. "Global warming" (now "global climate *change*") climatologists, socialist "economist" commentators are on the same intellectual level as creationists, even as they pad their resumes with churn and burn statistical fluff and self-congratulatory awards in academia. It's high time they were exposed. And these leftist wackos have no compunction whatsoever with instituting socialist government mandated behavior control on the reproduction choices of others, as evidenced by this little-Stalin I'm replying to talking about "fixing overpopulation".

That's why leftists constantly have to lie and make stuff up to try to be taken seriously. Because at heart they are petty jealous tyrants who don't value the freedom of others.