Global Warming Menaces California Wine Industry (among other things)

[Shallah Kali]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1896&e=6&u=/nm/environment_california_dc

"By the end of the century under the (best) scenario, heat waves and extreme heat in Los Angeles quadruple in frequency while heat-related mortality increases two to three times; alpine/subalpine forests are reduced by 50 percent to 75 percent and Sierra snowpack is reduced 30 percent to 70 percent," Field and his colleagues wrote.

Under the worst scenario, heat waves in Los Angeles are six to eight times more frequent, with up to seven times as many heat-related deaths as now. The Sierra snowpack falls by 90 percent.

This could "fundamentally disrupt California's water rights system," the researchers wrote.

They estimated that the $3.8 billion a year dairy industry and the $3.2 billion dollar grape industry would be especially vulnerable.

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Skewed priorities - the article states deaths from heat related causes will double or even triple but the headline is about wine. Well maybe this will get some republicans attention who do not want to do without their wine and cheese even if they don't care about things like people dying from heat stroke.

[chuck555]

1. Good post.

i gave it a 5. no more 2buck chuck.