Coffee Beetle Threatens World's Supply As Temperatures Rise

treehugger.com:

This year's coffee prices area already at a 12-year high due to low crop yields in South America, but it looks like prices could tighten again in the future if a particular beetle continues to bask in warming weather.

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Comments

[Jorge Umana]

11:04 AM on 09/08/2010

The real danger of global warming for coffee farms is not the beetle but the fungus associated with high levels of humidity and warmer climates. The "ojo de Gallo" fungus is a real nightmare for farmers in the Tarrazu valley for instance.

[Vanessa Belle]

06:36 PM on 08/31/2010

A good public relations strategy to raise prices.

[Charles Higley]

11:56 AM on 08/31/2010

Much as some like to blame people for everything, the climate is not our fault or ever will. The contention that we drive the climate is a political agenda designed to force the people of the world to agree to have their lives commandeered by a false crisis to save the world. As there is no defendable science behind the manmade global warming scam, this is clearly a power and money grab with a long term goal of creating a one-world government based on a false carbon economy. When we talk about evil, these are truly evil people because they not only do not have the good of the planet in mind, but they also do not care a hoot about the people.

And, be sure about this, a one-world government would not be a democracy and probably, most assuredly be totalitarian and socialist, run by a few individuals. The Copenhagen Meeting last Fall was meant to be the imposition event for this plan. In the agreement that was being pushed (but failed) there was mention of a one-world government with no details at all regarding who, what, or how it would be structured. It's a blessing that the proposed agreement failed to be adopted.

We can thank the person who released the Climategate e-mails and the many true, honest scientists who have worked so hard to have the real science heard by the public (and politicians) for the success of reason in Copenhagen.

[deweydecimal]

07:29 PM on 08/31/2010

Considering how Washington is run, the US govt is already beholden to the wims of the few and the rich so you should be less worried about a tinfoil worldwide government and more worried about the plutocrats who control the here and now.

[Vikingdave]

08:51 PM on 09/14/2010

Most of the scientific community disagrees with you. So, be sure about THIS. when the water rises up to your elbows, it will be far too late. Then who ya gonna call.

[Charles Higley]

11:47 AM on 08/31/2010

Worrying about the coffee beetle becoming more prevalent with warming temperatures would be a problem except for the fact that we are not warming. It's just not happening. Only on paper, due to artificially and dishonestly inflated temperatures, is there any warming. I doubt that the beetles are reacting to false paper reports.

We have not really warmed since 1995, with an extreme El Nino in 1998, and have been cooling rather nicely since 2006, with an extreme El Nino this summer. This event has ended and we are crashing into what looks like an extreme La Nina, which, along with the PDO and NAO going into their cooling 30 year phase and the Sun performing the what looks to be a repeat of a Dalton minimum, bodes for falling temperatures for several decades.

So, worry all they want, but these people cannot blame something that is not happening for the beetle infestation. It simply does not ring true. They need to find the real reason and not blame global warming in what is currently a common knee jerk reaction, just like so many people who have no idea what they are talking about.

CO2 is plant food both on land and in the oceans. It cannot acidify the oceans to any significant effect (the small changes detected cannot reliably be attributed to CO2), and the benefits of the higher CO2 far outstrips the pH change. CO2 is also a trace gas which cannot and does not drive the climate.

[Chaling]

10:42 AM on 08/31/2010

"Coffee may not be a basic food crop"

Speak for yourself, you Brit tea-drinker(LOL) and while I have never been a End-of-Days Dooms-Dayer, if the coffee bean goes, can the End of the World be far behind?

[Zadie Mae]

04:28 AM on 08/31/2010

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[rikster]

06:59 PM on 08/30/2010

beetles..! who are these beetles..?

[Diogenis]

11:59 AM on 08/29/2010

Next..The Cocoa Bean Beetle attack, stay tuned to HP!

[Diogenis]

11:53 AM on 08/29/2010

Star$$$'s released the beetle......for more profits.

[afro diziac]

08:50 AM on 08/29/2010

Global warming is already here
http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi3990226457/

[flashblitzen]

06:39 AM on 08/29/2010

Thanks for the tip. I'm going long on coffee futures now.
Hopefully I can profit from all this bad news.

Have you noticed people don't say "thank you" as much as they used to?

[UpBone]

11:00 AM on 08/29/2010

Thank you

[Diogenis]

11:53 AM on 08/29/2010

thank you for pointing that out.

[Carolab]

04:09 AM on 08/29/2010

Now this IS a problem. I am totally addicted.

[Diogenis]

11:54 AM on 08/29/2010

go to a clinic

[Carolab]

12:25 AM on 08/30/2010

A coffee drinker's clinic? I'd LOVE to.

[provgrays1]

01:19 AM on 08/29/2010

Less Starbucks coffee will be
a boon to mankind.

[BikeFreak]

09:06 PM on 08/28/2010

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[gallon]

04:54 PM on 08/30/2010

Agreed. This is a threat to western civilization.

[AyeChart]

08:43 PM on 08/28/2010

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the globe:

Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon.

Anna Petherick
dead fishThe San Julián fish farm in the Santa Cruz department of Bolivia lost 15 tonnes of pacú fish in the extreme cold.Never Tejerina

With high Andean peaks and a humid tropical forest, Bolivia is a country of ecological extremes. But during the Southern Hemisphere's recent winter, unusually low temperatures in part of the country's tropical region hit freshwater species hard, killing an estimated 6 million fish and thousands of alligators, turtles and river dolphins.

Local weather is NOT global warming or global cooling. It's LOCAL WEATHER.

[kernel lib]

05:27 AM on 08/29/2010

who are you
and why are you here