Fake ABC news on coffee extinction

Posted on 8:18 pm, January 18, 2019 by Rafe Champion

Jo Nova on the alarming news that we better get coffee while we can.

Let’s check. Here’s what excess fossil fuel emissions have done to coffee production

Looks like coffee has been relentlessly increasing. It has doubled since 1977.

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12 Responses to Fake ABC news on coffee extinction

Percy Popinjay

#2911085, posted on January 18, 2019 at 8:33 pm

The same idiots were predicting a global coffee shortage and corresponding “exorbitant price rises” about two/three years ago. Due to a drought in varous coffee growing regions.

Never eventuated, of course.
Snoopy

#2911094, posted on January 18, 2019 at 8:44 pm

Most coffee species at risk of extinction due to climate change, scientists warn

“scientists warn”. That’s much more serious than ‘scientists say’. I don’t think we should dismiss this lightly.
Bruce of Newcastle

#2911096, posted on January 18, 2019 at 8:48 pm

Vladimir Putin is rubbing his hands together.
All that space in Siberia where you can’t grow anything except straggly trees.
Soon to be coffee heaven!

/s
Percy Popinjay

#2911103, posted on January 18, 2019 at 9:00 pm

oops – the drought was of course, due to gerbil worming.
HP

#2911126, posted on January 18, 2019 at 9:26 pm

Scientists will warn in furtherance to their grant proposals, as usual.

Not a cent.
Entropy

#2911132, posted on January 18, 2019 at 9:33 pm

Wild coffee. OK. I am pretty sure wild coffee will look after itself, weed that it is.
As for cultivated varieties, these scientist sure aren’t agricultural scientists. Perhaps they are scientists in the same way economists call economics a science instead of the art it really is.
You would just selectively breed new varieties as the climate changed. Same for fruit that needs a certain number of chill nights to flower and fruit set. A decent breeding program would be able to breed new varieties quicker than the climate changes. And if you needed to go faster, gene edit.
DaveR

#2911193, posted on January 18, 2019 at 11:08 pm

All fake news. The simplest of checking would have shown the significant increases in coffee yields as temperatures warm slightly. More likely a glut coming.
bemused

#2911311, posted on January 19, 2019 at 7:00 am

If only climate change would make Their ABC extinct.
egg_

#2911322, posted on January 19, 2019 at 7:43 am

Not The ABC News.
Soyboys wake in fright.
egg_

#2911323, posted on January 19, 2019 at 7:45 am

More likely a glut coming.

The Gore Effect?
Dr Fred Lenin

#2911485, posted on January 19, 2019 at 11:12 am

They didnt mention the most important thing ,affecting inner cityites ,the pending latte shortage !the latte farmers are suffering from an acute shortage of taxpayer subsidies ,the lifeblood of the left. The gangrenes in the sennit are addressing this urgent problem befot=re acute withdrawal symptoms set in ,a pandemic of latte deprivement woud by fer=arsome to see,all those snarling people of all genders ,uuuughhh bleedin orrible
Squirrel

#2911792, posted on January 19, 2019 at 6:51 pm

How surprising (not) that the ABC took this angle – where are the high profile, high rotation stories about the environmental cost of ‘Straya’s addiction to coffee? We don’t get those sort of stories because it would be a very inconvenient truth for large chunks of the ABC’s rusted-on supporters.