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UK could become too hot to produce wine!

For all those global warming deniers out there, read this: climate change could mean some parts of southern England will be too hot to for wine-making by 2080, according to a UK professor. Why? Rising summer temperatures have already started to evolve the UK’s wine profile, with some French grape varieties being successfully introduced there in the past 20 years (I’m salivating at the prospects of planting my own little vineyards here in Eire, someday).

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Water News May 08 Roundup

People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but even more for producing things such as food, paper, cotton clothes, etc. The water footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation. Now you too can figure out your water footprint using the calculator at waterfootprint.org. Additionally, they have a gallery of commonly consumed products and how much water it takes to produce them and case studies of water footprints of specific countries like China and Israel.

Remember, water conservation is essential.

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News You Won’t Read in the MSM

An outbreak of sharp eyespot disease (SED), which affects cereals, is threatening 72.46 million mu (4.83 million hectares) of wheat in China’s major producing regions, according to local agricultural authorities.

This is exactly what I warned about in earlier diaries on the grain situation. With grain inventories at 40 year lows and demand booming the earth cannot afford any crop failures or outbreak of diseases that will lower yields. All we need is a drought here and a pestilence there, and we’re toast.

Do you know if the Democrats have a plan of action ’cause we sure can’t rely on the repukes to come up with anything except showering bombs anywhere in the Middle East. Read more »