Saturday, March 14, 2015


EPA Administrator: Coffee at Risk Due to Climate Change

Climate change is bad for EVERYTHING.  Good that we don't seem to be having any.  We could always drink dandelion coffee, though.  It's not too bad if you grow your own dandelions and have it fresh.  And dandelions are worldwide!



 In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy said that “climate change puts the world’s coffee-growing regions at risk.”

“Climate change injects volatility into the global marketplace. Volatility leads to instability,” McCarthy said. “Take coffee. Now coffee is a temperature sensitive crop. Climate change puts the world’s coffee-growing regions at risk.

“Growth depends on a safe environment and a stable climate,” she said. “We can no longer accept the false premise that pollution is somehow part of the growing pains of growth. If that’s your premise, then the foundation of that growth was not built to last. It was wrongly designed.

“Climate change isn’t just a moral responsibility we must accept. It’s an economic opportunity we can seize.”

McCarthy not only emphasized the economic effects of climate change, but said that it posed a “national security concern.”

“Once you open your eyes, you’ll realize that climate is not just an environmental issue. It is a fundamental economic issue and national security challenge,” McCarthy said.

“It’s no surprise that according to the American Security Project, 70 percent of the world’s countries explicitly call climate change a national security concern.”

SOURCE

Posted by John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.).



6 comments:

Wireless.Phil said...

Old news. They said the same thing last year, but wait!

There is no, no climate change!
HOW EARTH´S ORBITAL SHIFT SHAPED THE SAHARA By Anuradha K. Herath - Dec 20, 2010
www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/how-earths-orbital-shift-shaped-the-sahara/

Wireless.Phil said...

The Global Warming Hoax – 19 Irrefutable FACTS (Video)
Posted by Sean Adl-Tabatabai in Sci/Environment 1 month ago
yournewswire.com/the-global-warming-hoax-19-irrefutable-facts-video/

Wireless.Phil said...

Here's the answer.
All these fools own stock in the coffee commodities market. Cause a scare, cause a shortage, drive up the prices.

Doom said...

What they really mean is... 'if things continue as is, and the government does nothing, the price of coffee will drop through the floor and storage space will be the major problem in short order.'

Wireless.Phil said...

If it doesn't sell, store mark it down. I've gone all of the last half of last of 2014 and part of 2015 on marked down 8 O'clock coffee, plus s6 32-onpppsix 32-ounce cans to go, all marked down.

Its sealed, won't go bad.

More:
‘CHAOTIC EARTHS': SOME HABITABLE EXOPLANETS COULD EXPERIENCE WILDLY UNPREDICTABLE CLIMATES Mar 13, 2015
www.astrobio.net/topic/deep-space/cosmic-evolution/chaotic-earths-some-habitable-exoplanets-could-experience-wildly-unpredictable-climates/



Doom said...

W.P.,

Oops, looks like it's already happened. What's good for consumers, it seems, is not good for the government.

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