Climate change set to cause coffee problems
“Climate change was through to affect coffee very gradually, but some shocking situations are being reported as a result of really drastic, chaotic changes, such as very little or too much rain.”
That is what Peter Baker, of the Centre of Agricultural Bioscience International (CABI), said last weekend whilst delivering a speech to the 25th annual International Conference of Coffee Science.
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You might be drinking twigs, earth and coffee every morning
That lovely cup of coffee you drank this morning which had subtle notes of nut, chocolate and was capped off by an earthy aftertaste and a textured mouthfeel? Well, it turns out that there’s a chance that you’ve been brewing up coffee with a few additional extras in it.
It might have been diluted with soil, twigs and other bits and bobs, for example.
Okay, so we’re pretty sure that this isn’t commonplace at the moment – and if it is we shall shed a couple of tears as our world crashes down around us – but a couple of scientists have begun to develop a way that can identify whether coffee is counterfeit or not.
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How is climate change affecting coffee?
We have seen pictures on the news of polar bears struggling amid ever-decreasing icy worlds and also the disappearance of snow atop the higher regions of the world, but have you ever thought to wonder what effect climate change is having on other industries?
For instance, what about coffee?
This question has been in the news recently and websites such as the BBC have discussed the issue.