Another hyperbolic Climate Change scare story. Arabica is grown between 600 and 2000m altitude. At typical 0.65°C per 100m lapse rate in tropics that is a about an 8°C temperature range. The world warmed by 0.7°C last century, (though no rise in last 15 years) so that the same temperature occurs 100m higher up the mountain, and seemingly current coffee production is doing very well. If the world heated up by a further 2°C then the optimal growing region might be 300m higher.
In Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is grown between 900 and 1700m elevation - a range of 800m or about 5°C One wonders how these coffee plants ever survived the 10°C colder temperatures of the last ice age, or the 3°C hotter temperatures of the Holocene Climate Optimum 5-9000 years ago. Or when the media will start applying even a modicum of scepticism to such obviously ridiculous scaremongering claims. On 12 November 2012 04:43, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > All Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is grown from the Arabica species of > coffee. So sad, this product is also on the road to eventual extinction. > Cheers: Axil > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Climate change threat to Arabica coffee crops >> > >> > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20252472 >> > >> > >> > The dreadful price wrought by climate change mounts increasingly higher. >> >> There's always Jamaican Blue Mountain. >> >> >
