{"id":265795,"date":"2023-07-06T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265795"},"modified":"2023-07-06T18:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T16:32:25","slug":"wrong-bloomberg-climate-change-is-not-coming-for-your-cabernet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265795","title":{"rendered":"Wrong, Bloomberg, Climate Change is Not \u2018Coming for Your Cabernet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Linnea Lueken<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A recent article in Bloomberg,<\/em> titled \u201cMother Nature Is Coming for Your Cabernet<\/a>,\u201d makes the oft-repeated claim that climate change is threatening wine production, in this case, focusing on South Africa. This claim, as always, is false. In reality, wine production in South Africa in particular has done well over the past decades of modest warming, with no sign of any looming disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer and senior executive editor at Bloomberg<\/em>, Timothy L. O\u2019Brien, described a conversation he had with a vintner in South Africa during a recent trip. He notes that winemaking is \u201cjust another version of farming\u201d and that it\u2019s \u201chard, unpredictable work.\u201d This is true. All agricultural production is subject to sometimes unpredictable weather patterns over both short- and long-term time periods. Weather disasters are occurring all around the world at all times, so somewhere, some produce is being impacted. This is not new, and is not indicative of long-term effects from climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Brien goes on to declare that climate change may make some of the most famous regions for wine production \u201cinhospitable to grape production.\u201d This statement is protected by the use of the word \u201cmay,\u201d but in the context of the article, is clearly meant to be taken seriously. The possibility of major producing regions becoming \u201cinhospitable\u201d amid warming is extremely low, especially since data indicate that despite the last hundred-plus years of warming, grape growing and winemaking have not suffered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the opposite is true, especially for South Africa. The available United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FA0) data on wine production<\/a> in South Africa show that since FAO records began in 1961 both grape production and wine production have improved. The all-time record for wine production in South Africa occurred in 2014, and the all-time highest grape production was as recent as 2017. (See figure below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FAO data shows that since 1961:<\/p>\n\n\n\n