Monday 13 February 2012

Valentine's Day destroyed by climate change?



According to the activist group Climate Nexus as reported in the Los Angeles Times
Research from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture found last year that as temperatures rise, the principal growing regions for cocoa could shrink, especially in Ghana and Ivory Coast, the sources of half the world’s supply. Production could fall off dramatically by 2050, making cocoa less available and more expensive.
Peter Gleick, a MacArthur fellow and chief executive of the Pacific Institute, bemoaned the potential decline of the sweet treat last week in an open letter to climate change skeptics in Forbes.

Full story here.

Link to the original research (PDF file).

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