“However, climate change is nothing new in the earth’s history, he points out. “Today the issue is that our agricultural systems are much more fixed,” he says, “and our investments in our agricultural systems are much more fixed.”
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“However, climate change is nothing new in the earth’s history, he points out. “Today the issue is that our agricultural systems are much more fixed,” he says, “and our investments in our agricultural systems are much more fixed.”
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When the Moselle becomes the Mosel, the wine improves immensely.
Because of government subsidies, France produces so much wine that a lot of it is distilled into ethanol for motor vehicle fuel. They’re not going to run low on wine *any* time soon. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/06/international/europe/06wine.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
As for the vaunted ‘flavor’ disruption from climate change, too bad for the cheese eating surrender monkeys. There’s still the good stuff from California, they can import all they want.
That is especially ironic given that French wines have been grown on American roots for quite a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight
Now THAT’S a crisis!
For years I have been hearing that the biggest threat to French wines was American wines.