There they go again. National Public Radio published an article on its website claiming global warming is wreaking havoc on Italian wine production and forcing producers to seek new ways to protect their grapes.
Yet the objective data show wine production in Italy, the rest of Europe, and the rest of the world are all doing quite fine.
As CFACT documented last month, global wine production set a new record last year. Italy was no exception, as Italian wine production also set a new record in 2018.
Italian wine production is down some in 2019, but wine analysts attribute the 2019 decline to wine producers deliberately growing fewer grapes this year because they had so much holdover wine from 2018.
To the extent weather impacted the wine grapes that were grown, unusually late spring cold weather and frosts diminished output.
Of course, as we are all lectured, global warming causes an earlier end to winter and an earlier start to spring.
Without our recent modest global warming, this year’s cold spring would have been worse, this year’s late frosts would have been worse, and this year’s grape harvest would have been worse.
Leave it to NPR, however, to spin the record 2018 wine production, the excess wine held over into 2019, and the cold spring weather on global warming.
NPR described the cold spring and late frosts as “weather extremes due to climate change.”
Well, I guess “weather extremes” is one way to describe a cold spring and late frosts. Blaming those on global warming, however, is simply preposterous.
Regardless of what NPR would have people believe, wine production in Italy and throughout the globe is doing just fine as our planet modestly warms.
So raise a glass and toast global warming!
Read more at CFACT
Recently, the European Union decided to distill surplus wine into biofuel.
Today, I watched a news bit about cranberry growers who have decided to build solar farms above their bogs, for the cash. Cranberries don’t pay for themselves.
I’m calling out everyone who claims that biofuels drive up the price of food. Farmers could bury you with potatoes and cabbage, if it paid them to do so.
Global warming will only make the surplus bigger.
NPR National Public Radio nothing but leftists propeganda its just another to add to the Boycott list
Cold winters!? Must be CO2 caused [global warming]
Tornados? Caused by CO2 [global warming] (as if they never existed before)
hurricanes? CO2
What about fewer hurricanes?
What about the greening of the planet?
What about none of the catastrophic events, only the positive results?
All because of CO2.
We need to start an alarmist movement to get the oil out of the ground and burn it all…NOW!!