October 20, 2016

Climate Change Is Hurting Wine So Now It Really Is A Problem

First it came for our snow days. Then it came for our polar bears. Now climate change has its sights set on destroying another one of earth’s treasures: Malbec. According to the Earth Institute at Columbia University, global wine production is expected to fall by 5% in 2016 because of “climatic events” and the earth’s warming temperatures messing with grape harvest timing. While climate change has affected wine producers everywhere, it has had the most dramatic impact on South America, where Malbec production is estimated to have plummeted by 35% in Argentina and 21% in Chile. Just when we thought 2016 couldn’t get much worse.

Yes, I want to sound marginally more intelligent: