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2003-09-06 Europe

Europeâs harvest crisis: heatwave devastates grain crops

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Posted by Steve White 2003-09-06 12:34:23 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ahhhh, but the Spanish and Italian and German wines should be excellent - heat raises sugar content, alcohol %. French wines should still suck ....just because.....

Posted by Frank G 2003-9-6 12:46:34 AM|| 2003-9-6 12:46:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 One of the things I have ever found funny is that the French and the French-influenced oenologists dismiss the Spanish wines as "being too heavy, not tanic enough due to Spain's summer heat" but that when France is struck by a particularly hot and dry summer (ie Spanish-like summer) the same oenologists explain the French wine will be exceptionally good due to the heat. Go figure.

Posted by JFM 2003-9-6 2:53:31 AM|| 2003-9-6 2:53:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Translation: " We need our wine sales! "

Time to buy more Spanish wine. They helped and supported us, and France didn't.

Everyone spread the word! Spanish wine is better than French! Buy Spanish!

Posted by Charles 2003-9-6 3:06:56 AM|| 2003-9-6 3:06:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 We'll send the EU some burlap sacks full of GM food that they can use to sandbag their flooding rivers with. I wonder if we can engineer a better grape?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-6 9:21:33 AM|| 2003-9-6 9:21:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 According to this article, Europe may need to change quite a few things, if they want to keep feeding themselves. Then there will be the swing back the other way as we move into the next Ice Age in about 8000 years. Still, a little cooperation should see the world capable of feeding itself, even under the worst conditions. The problem is that cooperation.

There are signs that the US is finally coming out of its four-year drought, at least enough to rebuild grain outputs to close to those of the early 1990's. A few new, genetically altered species of corn, milo (a feed grain), sorgham, wheat, and rye, capable of better withstanding a drought and extreme heat, are also being tested in Texas, where I can personally attest it's hot and dry enough!

Europeans will soon have to make a choice - either accept GM foods, or go hungry. Wah, wah.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-6 10:41:59 AM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-6 10:41:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Wierd - the only wheat doing well is this genetically engineered stuff. Oh well, U guess we will al starve...

Posted by flash91 2003-9-6 11:54:04 AM|| 2003-9-6 11:54:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Super Hose asked if we could engineer a better grape. We might, but don't really need to: after WWII there were few vineyards producing anything - most French grapes today are descendants of cuttings sent from US universities.

Posted by John Anderson 2003-9-6 12:51:19 PM|| 2003-9-6 12:51:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Mr Anderson

I hope we sent them the best we had.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-6 1:05:23 PM|| 2003-9-6 1:05:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 When's the famine???

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-6 1:57:16 PM|| 2003-9-6 1:57:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Global warming! AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-9-6 4:45:53 PM|| 2003-9-6 4:45:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Global warming! AAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!"

I have two theories on Global warming.

1: It's a normal occurence in the Earth's life-cycle.

2: God saw what the world became in the 90's, and decided to fry us with a giant, invisible maginfy glass.

Posted by Charles 2003-9-6 7:31:02 PM|| 2003-9-6 7:31:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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