Global wine production set a new record last year, so climate alarmists are focusing on a dip in production in the world’s 18th largest wine producer – Greece – to claim a climate-change wine crisis.
This latest concocted scare illustrates just how desperate climate alarmists are to perpetuate their climate delusion.
A September 3, Google News search for “climate change” yielded among the very top results an article by EuroNews titled, “Climate change hits Greek wine as grape harvest falls 30%.”
The article claims, “Climate change is creating new challenges for Greek wine producers. The grape harvest is down 30 percent since 2018 and 50 percent from 2017.”
The article later claims, “The wine industry worldwide has been rocked by the effects of climate change, with grape quality and vineyard production immediately impacted by the slightest change of temperature.”
We at CFACT have grown to be quite skeptical of alarmist climate claims, including the few that assert specific factual data that appear at first glance to back them up. So we decided to look further into whether climate change is decimating wine production.
The first thing we noted is that Greece is merely the 18th largest wine producer, just barely ahead of Ukraine and Moldovia.
So assuming there has really been a decrease in Greek wine production during the past two years, that is hardly evidence of global climate change or global wine production trends.
The reason why alarmists and their media allies are focusing on Greece instead of other nations or global production as a whole became quickly apparent when we examined global wine production. Global wine production set a new record last year.
Even more remarkably, wine production set a new record despite a steady decline during the past five years in the amount of planted vineyards. Fewer acres of vineyards yielding record total production is astonishingly good news for wine production.
Putting a further dent in the narrative that global warming is decimating wine production, it was an unusual amount of frost events in 2017 that made 2017 a disappointing year for global wine production.
A warming climate, of course, will reduce the frequency of frost events. To save face for the alarmist warming narrative, the media delicately described the 2017 cold and frost events as “extreme weather events which resulted in premature harvests.”
Well, we guess that is one way to describe cold autumn and early frost events in a way that readers will draw in an incorrect inference that global warming was responsible for the disappointing 2017 harvest.
So global wine yields and overall wine production are setting new records.
Alarmists respond by searching hard for some country … any country … even a country as inconsequential as merely the 18th largest producer, to find lower production and nefariously scare wine drinkers around the world into believing a false narrative that global warming is threatening their beloved wine.
And alarmists wonder why so many people no longer listen to their concocted alarms…
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I’m sure that Canadian wine producers wish that global warming was real. Then they wouldn’t have to import grape juice concentrate in order to produce a palatable wine.
Wine is a grossly overrated libation. The only product from grapes that produces an elixir of quality is the distilled process of fine Brandies/Cognacs. One of the wonders is Asbach Uralt from Germany. It’s a cognac but because of the RULES it can’t be labelled as such. Half the price of simlar tasting French products.
I live in the Niagara Peninsula with thousands of WINE SNOBS from Toronto pissing their dollars down the drain buying the crap here. But good for the local vitners. Make a buck guys and gals.
There are approximately 150,000 abortions per day world wide
(56 million per year ) and approx 150,000 deaths per day world wide from everything else . So no end of ambulance chaser horror stories for the media to pump out .
Like wise, world wide it is possible to cherry pick weather events every day like the made up Greece wine crisis .
What interesting is what the MSM picks to direct the public attention .
Think about it, over 50 million babies aborted every year and Bernie Saunders would encourage more as a population control strategy to address a fake
crisis … the earth has a fever .
The Democrats have gone full NUTS and are going to get wasted in 2020 .
Ban coal , internal combustion engines , nationalize the energy sector ,
impose a Green Deal that would cost $ trillions all to accomplish SFA .
Maybe Greek wine is just facing massive competitive pressure . But no it’s all climate change .
C’mon, Amber. The Democrats are just putting out feelers.
It is amazing and disturbing how the activists interpret events. A low grape harvest in Greece is the fault of climate change, but climate change has nothing to do with a record high grape harvest world wide.
Do you remember how climate change was going to decimate the world wide production of coffee? Again, activists were desperate for some means to push their agenda. It turned out that the world had a bumper crop of coffee.
The fact that this garbage article about wine came up near the top of the search shows just how biased the Google searches are.
Google has become HAL 9000 and getting worse .
Climate alarmist were lying then and they are lying now. The CNN climate town hall Wednesday night was nothing more than an attempt to reframe climate change, “the climate crisis”, as a moral imperative and a faith” issue.
Pete Buttigieg said that to “connect with Republicans in places like Indiana on climate issues, Democrats would be wise to use the frame of faith.”
After 50 + YEARS OF “SCIENTISTS SAY” headlines you would think “Climate alarmism” (global cooling – global heating – climate change –climate crisis) was based in science. Physics specifically.
But according to mayor Pete, WE are missing the moral dimensions of this because, “frankly, every religious and nonreligious moral tradition tells us that we have some responsibility to stewardship, some responsibility for taking care of what’s around us not to mention taking care of our neighbor,”
The only faith displayed is in their own arrogance. These wanna-be leaders do not see the hypocrisy of preaching morality while promoting a bald face lie.