First bacon, now Coffee to be extinct. Stock up on your java now!

[BigRedChief]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/11/09/coffee-arabica-extinct.html

A cup of morning coffee could be much harder to find, and much more expensive, before the century is out thanks to climate change and the possible extinction of wild Arabica beans.


That’s the warning behind a new study by U.K. and Ethiopian researchers who say the beans that go into 70 per cent of the world’s coffee could be wiped out by 2080.


Researchers at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew and the Environment and Coffee Forest Forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia looked at how climate change might make some land unsuitable for Arabica plants, which are highly vulnerable to temperature change and other dangers including pests and disease.


They came up with a best-case scenario that predicts a 38 per cent reduction in land capable of yielding Arabica by 2080. The worst-case scenario puts the loss at between 90 per cent and 100 per cent.
There is a “high risk of extinction” says the study, which was published this week in the academic journal Plos One.

[Frazod]

In 2080 I'll be 115. I think it'll take much more than coffee to get me up and moving in the morning.

[milkman]

In 2080 I'll be 115. I think it'll take much more than coffee to get me up and moving in the morning.

I will be long dead and buried.

But I think I'll have some coffee buried with me, just for the hell of it.

[Hammock Parties]

Whatever, I had a delicious BLT the other day.

[Bump]

a world without coffee would be terrible. Good thing I'll be dead before 2080.

[Bwana]

I will be long dead and buried.

But I think I'll have some coffee buried with me, just for the hell of it.

Exactly, by 2080 I'll also be taking a dirt nap. As a final ass graveler I may have something like this put on my rock. "I'm in the ground like Mumammar Gaddafi, but kiss my ass I took your coffee."

[listopencil]

Exactly, by 2080 I'll also be taking a dirt nap. As a final ass graveler I may have something like this put on my rock. "I'm in the ground like Mumammar Gaddafi, but kiss my ass I took your coffee."


I'll keep mine short and sweet:

"No more coffee? Fuck this. I'm out."

[BIG_DADDY]

All I know is I picked up my side of beef this weekend.

[WhiteWhale]

Sounds like some propaganda aimed at starbucks loving hippies.

Also, I'm glad most of you will be dead. I hope you don't have kids if that's the regard you have for them. Maybe your grandkids will want coffee?

[BlackHelicopters]

Bacon flavored coffee. I think I just peed a little.

[Chief Roundup]

Good thing I don't drink Coffee.

[KC_Lee]

I'll be 111 in 2080. If I still need coffee then it better be Zombie Morning Brain roast.

[Bwana]

Sounds like some propaganda aimed at starbucks loving hippies.

Also, I'm glad most of you will be dead. I hope you don't have kids if that's the regard you have for them. Maybe your grandkids will want coffee?

LMAO

I think your sarcasm meter must be broken, sunshine.

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[patteeu]

Will there still be Red Bull bushes and 5 Hour Energy trees?

[GloryDayz]

OK, are the world's coffee pots adding to global warming? I'll check with Al Gore, but I think I already know the answer...

I'm going to do my part and add more whiskey to my coffee, thus using less of my great grandkids fair share. It's the least I can do!

[Ace Gunner]

meh, mcd's will have it for $80 a cup.

[alnorth]

This report is ridiculous.

Presuming climate change happens, land which is currently unsuitable for these beans will suddenly become viable, and this crop is too valuable for the potential new growers to shrug their shoulders and say, "meh"

This bean wont be extinct unless the entire world becomes unsuitable, and since this is a warm weather crop, you'd need a new ice age for that, not global warming.

[redsurfer11]

F*** Coffee. Drink Tea.

[Jenson71]

F*** Coffee. Drink Tea.

Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon. Thank God for the industrial revolution.

[gblowfish]

I'm going to be very grumpy in 2080. First of all, because I have to have my coffee in the morning. Second, because I'm going to be 121 years old and haven't had my coffee in the morning. It won't be a pretty sight.

[BigRedChief]

Sounds like some propaganda aimed at starbucks loving hippies.

Also, I'm glad most of you will be dead. I hope you don't have kids if that's the regard you have for them. Maybe your grandkids will want coffee?No one on this board will take this report seriously. It was just a fun thing to post humorous antidotes. Ans maybe poop refrences.
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[cdcox]

This report is ridiculous.

Presuming climate change happens, land which is currently unsuitable for these beans will suddenly become viable, and this crop is too valuable for the potential new growers to shrug their shoulders and say, "meh"

This bean wont be extinct unless the entire world becomes unsuitable, and since this is a warm weather crop, you'd need a new ice age for that, not global warming.

As usual, the popular press completely misrepresented the study. The focus of the study was wild Arabica coffee, not cultivated coffee. The irreplacable value of the wild coffee us it's genetic diversity, which provides potential for developing new strains of coffee that have improved flavor or stress resistant properties. For example if climate change rests in conditions generally less favorable to cultivate coffee, that disadvantage may be partially overcome by breeding strains tolerant of those stress conitions. However, in order to breed new strains, we need to have those traits already present in existing plants. That genetic diversity is largely contained in the wild populations.

[Rain Man]

I'm very worried about toast now.

[KCFalcon59]

I'm very worried about toast now.

Not to mention real butter and apricot preserves. :eek: