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OMG - coffee could become extinct!

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Yes it's true. Due to climate change it is thought that most types of coffee could become extict due to the effects of climate change where it is grown.
Grim news for many of us :(
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Don't panic - climate change is in fact heading towards another ice-age, or so it would seem - the wild arabica bean may be okay.
I would advise stilts for the quagmires, and camels for the snowy hills
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El Viejo wrote:
Don't panic - climate change is in fact heading towards another ice-age, or so it would seem - the wild arabica bean may be okay.
Hmm ... they make much of the carbon absorption of peatland: 20g per square metre per year. The average UK car produces around 2.7 tonnes of CO2 per year, or 2,700,000g. So one car needs about 135,000 square metres, or 0.135 square kilometres, of peatland (and that's just cars - we'll ignore air, trains, shipping, power generation, etc. for the moment). The surface area of Sweden is 450,300 square kilometres - so if it was all peatland, that would absorb the output of about 3.3 million cars each year. Sweden currently has over 6.8 million registered vehicles ... Of course, if the whole of Sweden turned into peat, then there probably wouldn't be quite so many cars, but still ... don't buy your snowshoes just yet! :)
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The bottom line is (unless things get too hot) there will still be suitable climates somewhere. If it freezes out, then the equator will be the place to grow, if it gets hotter, somewhere in the higher latitudes will be good.

I sure would miss coffee though, if such a thing were to happen :cry: .
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Perversely the UK will just get a bit more rainy. Not sure we will be able to tell the difference.
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Tricky wrote:
Perversely the UK will just get a bit more rainy. Not sure we will be able to tell the difference.
:lol: - Well, I can tell you from having lived on both sides of the fence, too much rain is infinitely better than too little ;).
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