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Climate Change Finally Impacts Important Industry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mmmmmmm-beer dept.

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."

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  1. Uh, not due to climate change though... by JRHelgeson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The reductions in Malted Barley yields are a direct result of more farmers growing corn in place of barley in order to produce ethanol. The price of corn has gone up because demand has gone up, so therefore more farmers are producing/planting/harvesting corn.

    Just once, why can't one of our poorly considered quick fixes work?

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