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[Edinburgh Napier News] British Winemakers Bask in Climate Change Sunshine « Edinburgh ...: Research carried out by the University of Burgundy has shown that the best latitudes for winemaking in the northern hemisphere may move 1000 km (620 miles) north by the end of this century if nothing is done to stop global warming.

[International - www.vietnewsonline.vn] Climate change makes English winemakers see red: Citing research from the University of Burgundy, Greenpeace said in a report in August the best latitudes for winemaking in the northern hemisphere may move 1,000 km (620 miles) north by the end of this century if nothing is done to stop global warming.

[Blue Planet News] Climate change makes English winemakers see red | Blue Planet News: Wine aficionados are mixed about the results so far, but say the finest red wines may in future come from north .Climate scientists have warned that global warming will shift growing patterns for crops, to the point that some developing countries may become too hot or dry to grow enough wheat and maize to feed themselves.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: November 10, 2009: Perhaps the most significant numbers in the World Energy Outlook, at least in terms of the current policy and the international climate negotiations, pertain to China. Indeed, the IEA suggests that if China actually follows through on all of the goals and targets it has announced (for renewables, nuclear power, energy efficiency and the like), it alone could account for 25 percent of the reductions that the world needs to make by 2020 in order to remain on track for limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

[Free Frank Warner] Free Frank Warner: Global warming, global cooling: Numbers all ...: Since Arrhenius, there have been innumerable contributions to the theory by scientists in a remarkably wide variety of fields -- from ornithology to orbital mechanics to nuclear chemistry, from the history of tribal movements to the history of wine-making. A broad web of connected evidence keeps bringing up the same unpleasant but inescapable conclusion: The average global surface temperature is gradually rising over the decades when, according to orbital considerations, it ought to be falling.

[OK4me2] Climate change makes English winemakers see red - OK4me2: Wine aficionados are mixed about the results so far, but say the finest red wines may in future ."We've benefited from global warming," said Chris White, General Manager of Denbies Vineyard, 24 miles south of London, watching plastic trays of Pinot Noir grapes being emptied into a stainless steel wine press in his winery.

[Science: Science blog | guardian.co.uk] Science Weekly Extra podcast: What the world will look like after ...: It should be remembered that the British have a long history of wine-making and that grapes haven't really featured - elderberries, oak leaves, balckberries are just a few of the wine- making fruit that spring to mind. It is quite possible that some of those reported medieval wineries weren't actually using grapes at all.

[Climate Progress] Energy and global warming news for August 21: Natural gas prices ...: Gas executives saw a silver lining, arguing that the low prices would help them make a case in the Senate when it takes up energy and climate change legislation later this year. The gas companies want federal incentives to sway utilities to switch to gas from coal, and they want more government entities and businesses to convert their diesel bus and truck fleets to compressed natural gas….

[JoNova] Global Warming: A Classic Case of Alarmism « JoNova: “Even though - and we are going back to the late 1980s - the IPCC scientists stressed that the ”˜predictions’ from the climate models were nothing more than ”˜what if?’ assessments to indicate how the real climate system might be expected to respond to enhanced greenhouse forcing, and that the estimates of warming must always be linked to the input scenarios, the media and those who sought to make the case for greenhouse gas emission reduction, almost invariably quoted the highest values of warming, avoided any reference to the input scenarios and presented them as IPCC forecasts of actual future global climate. The IPCC - and I place on record that it was Brian Tucker of CSIRO who was instrumental in achieving the change - soon realised that we had to find a different word from ”˜prediction’ to describe the output of the climate models.

[Global Warming is Real] Professor Predicts Southern UK Will Be Too Hot For Grape ...: A British professor asserts that by 2080 some parts of southern England might be too hot to grow grapes. In a book entitled 'The Winelands of Britain: past, present and prospective' professor Richard Selley argues this on the basis of new climate change models indicating .

[Gonzo Gastronomy] “Step right up and don't be shy, because you will not believe your ...: Countries like England are, in my never-remotely-humble opinion, the Grape Apes of the winemaking world””sparkling wine in particular. When I say “sparkling wine” you conjure up images of Champagne in your head, or even Spanish Cava and Italian Prosecco.

[Dr Vino's wine blog] Nicole Kidman, French sails, global warming - sipped and spit | Dr ...: Belem, a three-masted barque first launched in 1896, will begin transporting 60000 bottles of wine by sail from the Languedoc to the British Isles in an effort to reduce wine's carbon footprint. Will gerbils power the refrigerated containers?

[The Pour] It's Not the Heat, It's the Cupidity - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com: Africa and Australia may well get cooler(due to the whole oceanic current thing), as might the british isles (though that would be more pertinent to the distilling and brewing industries). And there is certainly a possibility that the warming of certain regions is contributing to the over-alcoholic style of wine, though i have to agree with those who say that there are ways to control this if producers really wanted to…It seems they are actually trying to accentuate the effect.

[olelog] Ole Nielsen - Clouds and Climate Change: The question of whether clouds act as a positive or negative feedback to climate change has been an issue for decades, and the uncertain effect of feedback between climate and clouds is one of the largest obstacles to producing more confident projections of global climate. As the earth warms under increasing greenhouse gases, it is not known whether clouds will dissipate, letting in more of the sun’s heat energy and making the earth warm even faster, or whether cloud cover will increase, blocking the Sun’s rays and actually slowing down global warming.

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