Climate change causes beer drought
Panic is expected in pubs as a decline in the production of malting barley in Australia and New Zealand hits breweries. The decline is due to extensive drought, according to Jim Salinger of New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
“Most areas in Australia where malting barley is cropped are likely to experience production declines,” Salinger said, adding: “It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up.”
The nation with the highest beer per capita consumption in the world could face a beer deficit in future as the effects of climate change take their toll, it is claimed.
It seems that climate change has also made the news well run dry.
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Some projections (USDA International) of Barley production for the Oceania region were projected in March 2008 for the 2007-2008 season are 1.8 million metric tons over the 2006-2007 season.
It appears that “Big Jim” is a drinker of wine…. and Kool Aid in excess!
[...] maggie wrote a fantastic post today on “Climate change causes beer drought”Here’s ONLY a quick extract“Most areas in Australia where malting barley is cropped are likely to experience production declines,” Salinger said, adding: “It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up.” … [...]
It’s lonesome away from your kindred and all,
By the campfire at night where the wild dingos call,
But there’s nothing so lonesome,
So morbid or drear,
Then to stand in a bar of a pub with no beer.
Now the publican’s anxious for the quota to come
There’s a far away look on the face of the bum,
The maid’s gone all cranky and the cook’s acting queer
What a terrible place is the pub with no beer.
Etc
The Pub With No Beer.
Slim Dusty - 1957
BTW what a nonsence article by this Jim Salinger. Absolute rubbish.
Climate change is a fucking scam perpetrated by A holes like Al Gore, And believed religiously by simpletons and people of extreme low intelligence, Al gore uses 20 times more electricity than the average American and owns a Carbon Credit company in which he makes millions of dollars of idiots
Oh Dear! 2 ppm is such a HUGE increase in the [Danger/Tipping/Catastrophe/Sea Levels/Poisoning] and yet if the Greens had their wages increased by the same percentage wouldn’t they be squealing like stuck pigs???
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