 Sev
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
 44 Posts
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:09:39 AM
I like how "environmental changes" are going to kill off everything, because, you know, the climate's never changed before or anything. Oh, wait. I'm pretty sure a lot of plant and animal species were around before previous climate shifts that are still alive today. Media doomsday speakers, I swear. Even if "global warming" occurs to the point of changing the terrestrial climate significantly I call bs on the coffee/chocolate extinction. Why? One word.
Greenhouses.
Look at that. The climate changes dramatically a good four times every year. We call them seasons. And when a certain crop doesn't grow in unfavorable weather...take it inside, control temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, etc... and you create artificially viable growing conditions. Really, how do you think you can get potatoes any time of the year?
"Global Warming" - The Analog Y2K Syndrome |
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 PinkHomicide
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
331 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 9:27:04 PM
Media scare to justify higher prices? Best marketing scheme ever. |
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 Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9438 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 1:38:53 PM
GENETIC ENGINEERING TO THE RESCUE!!!! |
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Cajun247
Male, 18-29, Southern US
9438 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 1:38:36 PM
If there's demand there'll be a way. |
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 xerch
Male, 18-29, S. America
195 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 12:26:15 PM
2 Thoughts:
- That seems to be a warning sign that coffee - also chocolate - prices will go up soon and they will claim that will be caused by the environment changes: More expensive venti for you!!!
- It's ridiculous the amount of coffe and chocolate that we (human beings) eat and drink. It's insane that one of the most consumed thing in the whole world IS COFFEE!!!! |
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 McGovern1981
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
10257 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 8:07:37 AM
Coffee.. who drinks it for the flavour!
I do!! I take it you've never had freshly ground coffee straight from Costa Rica NOMMY! Coffee is second most legally traded commodity in the world it will not go extinct there's too much money in it. |
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 LuckyDave
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
628 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 4:26:49 AM
I'm sorry, but any "scientific" data that comes from a chain store so hopped up on its own ego that it charges outrageous prices for mediocre coffee, is asinine. |
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 xCYBERDYNEx
Male, 18-29, Southern US
4798 Posts
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Monday, October 17, 2011 2:44:33 AM
Who needs coffee when you can
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 Gibleto
Male, 18-29, Southern US
28 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 9:56:17 PM
Oh God no... |
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Wowummwow
Male, 18-29, Western US
263 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 7:47:12 PM
"i call bull poo. also, if the equator area gets too hot that means that formally colder places further north and south will get warmer and the conditions will be right to grow those plants there instead. duh."
Often plants require much more than a proper temperature to grow which makes this 'brilliant' idea null. |
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Wowummwow
Male, 18-29, Western US
263 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 7:43:09 PM
Report: "The ice caps are melting from climate change and will bring dramatic changes for future generations"
Reaction: "Hippy socialist tree hugger extremists suck and climate change is a conspiracy."
Report: "No more coffee from climate change"
Reaction: "Oh the humanity!!! If only we did more to stop this!!!" |
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 lisalezah
Female, 18-29, Australia
255 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 6:04:17 PM
Those people wouldn't want to live in this world without coffee!? With talk like that, you'd think coffee is as bad as heroin |
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furryblob
Male, 18-29, Europe
528 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:28:57 PM
If this comes to pass, watch out you global warming skeptics, I'm going postal! |
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jeanpaul91
Male, 18-29, Europe
128 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 3:09:19 PM
she's double fisted with her coffee? that must hurt |
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 jendrian
Male, 18-29, Canada
2356 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 2:28:16 PM
no way... we don't care we don't like coffee anyway |
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 cleanergirl
Female, 30-39, Southern US
106 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 1:36:18 PM
Eh. They'll just figure out a way to grow it hydroponically and it'll be super expensive. |
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 redspade
Male, 13-17, Canada
150 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 11:14:24 AM
Now THIS is how you get people to care about global warming.
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 Baelzar
Male, 40-49, Western US
1348 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 10:44:24 AM
Jesus H. tittyfu#king Christ. Like I needed another reason not to go to Starbucks besides their shi#y coffee.
Coffee is VALUABLE. If it's valuable, they will find a way.
Hydroponics? Maybe, I dunno, MOVE THE COFFEE PLANTATION NORTH? |
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randomxnp
Male, 30-39, Europe
779 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 9:34:37 AM
Oh, and until he can get his company to make a decent black coffee, which is its purpose, then perhaps they should concentrate there. I will only go to Starbucks if there is no alternative serving ground coffee, even McDonalds does better. |
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randomxnp
Male, 30-39, Europe
779 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 9:32:42 AM
So, plants that survived through the Little Ice Age when it was (colder than today) and through the Mediaeval Warm Period (when it was a little warmer) in the wild are going to go extinct if the temperature rises by perhaps another half degree, despite human intervention in a hugely valuable crop. Riiiiiigghht.
So this comes from the "Director of Sustainability" from a company that makes vast profits from pretending to follow left-wing politics and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The UCS, by the way, is an organisation that you can join if you have a valid credit or debit card. If they have since started to accept PayPal you might not even need that. It is nothing to do with science. |
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 BexyWexy
Female, 30-39, Europe
64 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:19:38 AM
NO CAPPUCCINO WITH CHOCOLATE SHAVINGS :(
Meh, idk. in 30 odd years we'll have found a good substitute i'm sure, because fake tastes is the way we're going ahead. |
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 Rawrg
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
935 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:17:37 AM
@kairobert
There are plenty of scientists motivated to push the case for global warming. Firstly, if global warming weren't viewed as apocalyptic, then they wouldn't receive funding from various governments to study the climate. Who do you think pays for this stuff, or do you think they're just doing it for free? Secondly, they have biases like the rest of us. Anyone with even a modicum of science background knows that there are too many variables to predict global climate with a practical degree of accuracy, as so many things change year to year. Solar intensity, the makeup of the atmosphere, weather patterns in general. One year it may rain 20" in a region, and another it may rain 5". It's not consistent. |
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Rawrg
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
935 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:14:19 AM
OH NOES IT'S GLOBAL WARMING AGAIN!!!!1 EVERYTHING GOOD WILL DIE!!!!1 Sigh... |
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Muert
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
134 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:12:55 AM
SCfan- That means he pays a lot of expert to watch out for threats to his company. He doesn't need to be an expert, he just needs to listen to them. |
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NILE12
Male, 18-29, Europe
157 Posts
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Sunday, October 16, 2011 7:21:53 AM
your hot chocolate is poo |
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