While some may suggest the media use the start of Lent to do specials on Easter and Jesus Christ, ABC News has decided to devote this season to a series on worshipping Mother Nature, instead.
ABC’s morning news program Good Morning America has spent the last few weeks doing a joint-project series with National Geographic on climate change, leading up to Earth Day, sending their reporters around the world to lecture Americans on how they’re causing our beautiful planet to suffer.
A few weeks ago, GMA sent meteorologist Ginger Zee to Africa to scold the U.S. for having the highest “historic record” of carbon emissions and praise certain African countries for banning plastic bags.
On another show, they shamed people who wash their cars at home, saying you should be using water-efficient, expensive professional car washes instead.
Well, on today’s show, Good Morning America correspondent Will Reeve traveled to Nicaragua to blame man-made climate change for the dwindling sea turtle population, before making it more personal to the American consumer: Your morning cup of coffee may be the next victim.
Anchor George Stephanopoulos teased the upcoming coffee scare segment several times throughout the show, finally handing it off to correspondent T.J. Holmes with, “Now we’re going to see how the changing climate can affect your morning cup of coffee.”
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As each GMA host sipped a cup of Nicaraguan coffee, Holmes gushed, “This could become more rare. Yes, this cup of joe could become more rare as the planet heats up and prices rise.”
It was then Reeve’s turn to fearmonger about coffee becoming a scarce commodity. Reporting from a coffee farm in the country called Gaia Estates, he spoke to the owner who claimed that longer dry seasons were affecting coffee production:
“Increasingly inhospitable conditions are making it harder and harder to grow the popular Arabica bean,” Reeve noted, while dramatic music played in the background.
He added that “scientists call this climate whiplash,” where there are longer dry seasons and shorter, heavier seasons of rain.
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Speaking with the coffee bean farmer, the ABC journalist despaired there was only so much that farmers could do to combat this problem:
As the planet heats up, coffee beans need to be planted at higher altitudes. But, there’s only so much land that you could potentially move to to get to that necessary elevation… But adding shade trees can’t completely fix the coffee problem.
The pair ended the report noting that more farmers would be leaving Nicaragua due to the conditions. Reeve warned Americans that their morning coffee routine would soon become an expensive and less enjoyable habit:
“And coffee consumers will also feel the impact. Prices reportedly already increasing from 93 cents to $1.16 per pound. Experts say prices will continue to go up, quality will go down, and premium beans will be harder to harvest,” Reeve touted.
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Are these people really sane and not totally off their rockers? For starters the annual Wet in Far North Queensland has not aboated one tiny drop. It is torrential for days on end, drenching the mountainous Atherton Tablelands. True much of this valuable and guaranteed downpour is lost in run off to the sea, but that is all down to the Greens who have prevented the building of new reservoirs above Cairns.
If those new dams could be built as was planned by the outgoing Liberal Government around 2000, then there would be sufficient rainfall to irrigate the whole Australian continent.
No, these destroyers know what they are up to – destruction of all civilised communities and then a grab for global power.
You are correct. The only way to stop their alarmism is to get active in politics and vote the idiots out of office.
Could be…, maybe…, might be… turned into CLIMATE WILL KILL US ALL by a shallow and incompetent television imitation ‘journalism’. The REALITY? A little more CO2 has made the planet greener, shrunk deserts, and brought a string of world record crop yields. We remain well within the natural average Holocene interglacial temperature range of the last twelve thousand years. And firmly within our three million year ONGOING Pleistocene/Holocene Ice Age. National Geographic? Are you kidding me? If television and National Geographic had any conscience or genuine understanding, they would realize all they’re doing is killing millions more by demonizing Fossil Fuels – 85% of the world’s energy. Seven to twelve million people DIE EVERY YEAR FROM A LACK OF ENERGY. Only fifty-six thousand die from our naturally driven climate. Time to fact check yourselves, ‘journalists’…
What Coffee shortage? say Juan Valdez
The coffee shortage hoax is not new, as the article pointed out. It is based on the climate model RCP8.5, which even the well informed activists do not believe will happen. Among other things, RCP8.5 assumes a ten fold increase in the use of coal, as well as making the common mistake that carbon dioxide has a significant influence on climate. Using RCP8.5 to predict a coffee shortage as well as a host other undesirable events is just pure propaganda.
The M.S. Media will say anything and do anything this is election year and most of them a Democratic Voters and supporters like it is with most all liberal democrats they will support any one to go against Trump including Sanders the M.S. Media always vote Democrat
This is how the world adapts. Why depend on a few Columbians and Kenyans to supply us with coffee. One frost here or there at the wrong time spoils breakfast for billions. Vietnam now grows coffee. It’s the same with various agricultural crops. Grow them in different places to ensure security of supply. Adapt and thrive versus extinction.