Kim Hjelmgaard in MarketWatch: Think of the historic winemaking regions of France. Now think of them airlifted approximately 620 miles north of their current location to, say, southern Scandinavia. That is what could happen to the wine industry -- worth close to $300 billion globally in 2009 -- under a worse-case-scenario projection by scientists and climatologists at the University of Bourgogne.The study, which was cited in a recent report on climate change and the wine industry from Greenpeace, highlights the extreme consequences of remaining on a current emissions path that some say could bring about a global temperature rise of 4°C or even 6°C between now and 2100.
"We have seen a drastic change in the attitude of many people in the wine industry. Even up to a year ago most people were still questioning whether global warming was even happening. Now they are ready to listen and to come forward with ideas and suggestions on what to do about this, " said Pancho Campo, one of the world's leading wine experts and the organizer of a number of pioneering conferences analyzing wine in the context of climate change, in an interview.
…"Wine is the perfect example for people when considering the climate problem because in order to make wine you need grapes, and grapes are 100% affected by climate," added Campo on the phone from Madrid, where he is executive director of the Spanish Wine Academy…..
A glass of red wine, shot by André Karwath aka Aka, Wikimedia Commons, under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5 License
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