{"id":472791,"date":"2026-09-21T07:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=472791"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:29:04","slug":"no-climate-change-is-not-squeezing-the-worlds-vineyards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=472791","title":{"rendered":"No, Climate Change is Not \u2018Squeezing\u2019 the World\u2019s Vineyards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"472792\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=472792\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?fit=1672%2C941&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1672,941\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0 ChatGPT  No, Climate Change is Not \u2018Squeezing\u2019 the World\u2019s Vineyards\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An illustration depicting the impact of climate change on vineyards, featuring a worried man squeezing bunches of grapes with the text 'CLIMATE CHANGE IS SQUEEZING THE VINEYARDS!' in the background. Other vineyard workers are shown happily harvesting grapes, surrounded by baskets filled with grapes and signposts pointing to options like 'Adapt' and 'New Regions.'\" class=\"wp-image-472792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?resize=640%2C360&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?w=1672&amp;ssl=1 1672w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0-ChatGPT-No-Climate-Change-is-Not-%E2%80%98Squeezing-the-Worlds-Vineyards.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2026\/09\/21\/no-climate-change-is-not-squeezing-the-worlds-vineyards\/\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/tilak-doshi\/\"><strong>Tilak Doshi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has become one of the settled rituals of the climate-activist press: almost any hardship afflicting any agricultural sector, anywhere in the world, is now reflexively laid at the door of \u201cclimate change\u201d. No mention of ordinary weather variability, market economics, pests or poor planning. The latest instalment arrived via <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/climate-change-is-putting-the-squeeze-on-the-worlds-grapegrowers-new-research-289699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <em>Conversation<\/em><\/a>, under a headline declaring that climate change is putting the squeeze on the world\u2019s grape-growers, dressed up as fresh research. It was duly amplified across <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ConversationEDU\/status\/2100062540399091873?s=20\">social media<\/a> as further proof that the planet\u2019s vineyards are dying on the vine. This should be duly mocked by those weary of seeing every inconvenience \u2013 from frost and floods to a merely disappointing harvest \u2013 blamed on \u201cclimate change\u201d. The truth, as usual, lies in the data \u2013 and the data on grape and wine production tell a rather different story from the one being sold to a public primed to expect climate catastrophe in every news cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A narrower study than the headline admits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read past the headline and the underlying research turns out to be considerably narrower than the framing suggests. The paper behind <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/climate-change-is-putting-the-squeeze-on-the-worlds-grapegrowers-new-research-289699\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the <em>Conversation<\/em> piece<\/a> is a modelling exercise by Australian researchers projecting how warming and drying trends <em>could<\/em>, over coming decades, alter the suitability of Australia\u2019s wine regions for viticulture. It is a study of possible future risk \u2013 among many future risks \u2013 in one country. It is not a documented account of a global industry currently in decline, though it comes across as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even the article\u2019s own examples cut against the doom framing: it notes that warming has allowed English growers to expand sparkling wine production in areas once thought unsuitable for anything but hedgerows, and that Tasmania stands to benefit as conditions there become more favourable. An industry that is simultaneously said to be collapsing in one hemisphere and blossoming in another is not evidence of crisis. It is evidence of what agriculture has always done in response to a changing climate: move, adapt and substitute <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/varietal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">varietals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What the hard production data actually show<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The relevant test of an existential \u2018squeeze\u2019 on grape-growers is not a projection but the actual harvest. On that score, the figures compiled annually by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) \u2013 the industry\u2019s own statistical authority \u2013 are unambiguous. World fresh grape production has been on a broadly rising trend since the 1990s and stood at roughly 77.7 million tonnes in 2024, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oiv.int\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/OIV_Statistical_Brief-Wine_Table_Grapes_and_Dried_Grapes_in_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OIV\u2019s 2024 statistical brief<\/a> \u2013 a level that has essentially held or grown even as the area under vine has shrunk, reflecting steady gains in yields and viticultural technique rather than any climate-driven contraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Production has shifted geographically, away from a shrinking European vineyard area and toward China, the Americas and other emerging producers, as documented in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oiv.int\/public\/medias\/2231\/en-press-release-oiv-10-11-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the OIV\u2019s historical releases<\/a>. The geographic reshuffling is driven substantially by economics and land-use policy and is not the same thing as a climate-induced collapse in supply. The Climate Realism project at the <em>Watts Up With That?<\/em> website reached a similar conclusion when it dug into UN Food and Agriculture Organization data in response to Canadian media claims of a climate-driven wine crisis: <a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2023\/06\/22\/wrong-again-cbc-climate-change-isnt-causing-a-decline-in-wine-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">both grape and wine output<\/a> have risen sharply worldwide since 1990, during the very period of modest global warming that is supposedly squeezing growers out of business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The real pressure is demand, not climate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the wine business is genuinely under strain \u2013 and in places it is \u2013 the industry\u2019s own trade body points to a very different culprit than the one making headlines via the <em>Conversation\u2019s<\/em> cited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fire.org\/news\/new-fire-study-finds-narrowing-range-political-views-among-faculty-donors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Left-leaning academic experts<\/a>. The OIV reported that global wine consumption fell for a seventh straight year in 2025, down 2.7% to roughly 208 million hectolitres and some 14% below 2018 levels \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/markets\/commodities\/articles\/wine-consumption-fell-again-2025-111527712.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lowest volume in a quarter of a century<\/a>. Nine of the world\u2019s 10 largest markets saw demand fall, led by steep declines in China, France and the United States. Asked to explain the slide, the OIV\u2019s Director General did not reach first for the catch-all \u201cclimate change\u201d. He pointed to structural shifts in mature markets, changing generational habits, reduced alcohol consumption among younger drinkers, tariff disruption and squeezed household budgets after years of inflation. Production, meanwhile, actually rose slightly in 2025 after a weak prior vintage. In other words, to the extent growers and vintners are under genuine commercial pressure today, the evidence from the industry\u2019s own statisticians points overwhelmingly to a demand-side story about shifting tastes and stretched wallets \u2013 not a supply-side story about vines withering in a hotter world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first time the wine-apocalypse story has been told, and it will not be the last. Canada\u2019s public broadcaster ran essentially the same segment twice within two months in 2023, and was debunked twice \u2013 once by pointing out that the varietals Canada is well suited to growing have expanded output even as the country remains poorly suited to others. American audiences, meanwhile, were treated to <a href=\"https:\/\/climaterealism.com\/2022\/02\/cbss-60-minutes-uncorks-an-old-wine-tale-falsely-claiming-climate-change-is-causing-a-wine-apocalypse-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a CBS <em>60 Minutes<\/em> segment<\/a> built around France\u2019s genuinely poor 2021 vintage \u2013 a year of frost, hail and summer humidity that French winemakers themselves attributed to unfavourable weather, not a climate change trend, and one in which other major producers simply made up the shortfall. A single bad season, cherry-picked and stripped of context, is a typical mainstream media headline: find the worst year on record for one region, attribute it to climate change and ignore the global aggregate that shows the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The European summer of 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer 2026 was hot in western Europe but it is not historically unique as the headlines would have us believe. Continent-wide, <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.copernicus.eu\/surface-air-temperature-june-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Copernicus<\/a> ranked it only third among recent summers, behind 2024 and 2022, while \u201crecord\u201d headlines often refer to a single station or month in a short modern network. Longer instrumental series still put 1976, 1947, 1911 and even 1826 among Europe\u2019s great hot summers; France\u2019s 1947 <em>canicule<\/em> \u2013 the French term for a sustained heatwave \u2013 put 40\u00b0C on the Paris record for 72 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even here, the alarmist framing that treats every fire as a direct emission of carbon dioxide from SUV tailpipes and power plants obscures an inconvenient human element. French authorities reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/world\/arid-41896075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">close to 500 people<\/a> had been arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires across the country by the end of July, with roughly seven in 10 suspected of deliberate arson rather than accident. The vines around Bordeaux were threatened that summer rather less by an abstraction called \u201cclimate change\u201d than by matches, cigarette ends and, in a meaningful share of cases, deliberate criminality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even on the heatwaves themselves, the single-cause story that dominates headlines is misleading. In a two-part analysis, the climate scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/rogerpielkejr.substack.com\/p\/why-europes-heat-waves-are-getting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roger Pielke Jr. has argued<\/a> that \u201cclimate change\u201d is properly understood as an outcome \u2013 a detected shift in the statistics of weather \u2013 rather than a single cause, and that Europe\u2019s accelerated warming reflects several interacting factors, prominently including the sharp post-1980 reduction in aerosol pollution over the continent, alongside the direct and indirect effects of greenhouse gases. Pielke has separately <a href=\"https:\/\/rogerpielkejr.substack.com\/p\/why-cutting-emissions-cant-fix-europes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cautioned<\/a> that even an aggressive near-term push to Net Zero would do little to alter European heat trends on any policy-relevant timescale, given the physics of the climate system and the other forces at work. None of this is a claim that nothing is happening; it is a caution against the lazy shorthand \u2013 repeated uncritically by outlets from the Leftist academics cited in the <em>Conversation<\/em> to the wire services \u2013 that collapses a set of causal factors into a single \u201cclimate change\u201d narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Agriculture has always adapted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grape-growing has never been a fixed, immovable enterprise pinned to one patch of soil for all time; it has shifted with climate for as long as it has existed, from Roman-era vineyards in a warmer southern Britain during the <a href=\"https:\/\/climatechangedispatch.com\/roman-warm-period-3-6f-warmer-than-today-new-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roman Warming Period<\/a> to the retreat of continental viticulture during the Little Ice Age and its subsequent recovery. That English sparkling wine and Tasmanian pinot noir are now expanding is not a symptom of catastrophe but a textbook case of adaptation. It is the response that economists in the tradition of William Nordhaus, rather than the catastrophist school associated with Nicholas Stern, would predict from an industry facing a gradual, foreseeable shift in growing conditions over decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growers substitute varietals, move up in altitude or latitude, adjust irrigation and canopy management, and in some cases relocate entirely. This is what farmers of every crop have done since agriculture began at the dawn of time. Treating each such adjustment as proof of an unfolding emergency, rather than evidence of a resilient and adaptive industry, inverts the actual lesson of the data. The Nordhaus approach to a gradually warming world (as it emerges out of the Little Ice Age) was never premised on warming being costless. Most industries, agriculture included, adjust incrementally and at manageable cost when they are left to respond to price signals and changing conditions over time, rather than being frog-marched toward a predetermined transition on the timetable of NGO activists and Al Gore-type alarmists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wine is, if anything, an unusually favourable case: it is a high-value, adaptable crop grown by sophisticated producers with every commercial incentive to track shifting conditions closely and to invest accordingly. This is, unsurprisingly, precisely what the industry\u2019s own investment patterns \u2013 new plantings in southern England, Tasmania, higher-altitude Andean valleys and elsewhere \u2013 show it doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the harvest data, not the press release<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a pattern this column has traced before in other domains \u2013 wildfires attributed reflexively to global warming while arson and land-management failures go unmentioned, insurance losses attributed to climate change when rising property values and denser coastal development are the primary causes, extreme-weather deaths cited in isolation from the sharp long-term decline in weather-related mortality that better forecasting, infrastructure and adaptation have delivered. The grape-growers story fits the template precisely. A narrow, speculative modelling study is packaged as proof of an ongoing global collapse, amplified by outlets with every institutional incentive to find the climate angle in each week\u2019s news, and left largely unchallenged by a mainstream media in search of bleeding, leading stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readers who want to know whether the world\u2019s wine supply is being \u2018squeezed\u2019 by climate change would do better to consult the OIV\u2019s harvest tables than the latest alarming headline. None of this is to deny that a warming world poses genuine, gradual challenges to which growers must respond, as they always have. Indeed, most growers in general would rejoice at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/goddard\/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earth-study-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">greening world<\/a> brought about by an increase in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide. The distinction between a real and manageable long-term adjustment and a fabricated emergency is often erased in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LLBiggers\/status\/2100573854615642446?s=20\">modern climate journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grape-growers who have spent centuries chasing the right slope, the right soil and the right microclimate will go on doing so, altitude by altitude and varietal by varietal, largely indifferent to the press releases written in their name. The vines, as it happens, are doing rather well. I just had a very nice Shiraz vintage this evening. Cheers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Dr Tilak K. Doshi is the&nbsp;<\/em>Daily Sceptic<em>\u2018s Energy Editor. He is an economist, a member of the CO\u2082&nbsp;Coalition and a former contributor to&nbsp;<\/em>Forbes<em>. Follow him on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tilakdoshi.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tilakdoshi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has become one of the settled rituals of the climate-activist press: almost any hardship afflicting any agricultural sector, anywhere in the world, is now reflexively laid at the door of \u201cclimate change\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The latest instalment arrived via the Conversation, under a headline declaring that climate change is putting the squeeze on the world\u2019s grape-growers, dressed up as fresh research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":472792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Discover how climate change narratives may misrepresent the reality of grape production, highlighting industry adaptability and resilience.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Debunking Climate Change Myths: Vineyards Thriving, Not Squeezed","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818444,691819134,691819510,691818056,691818353,691845589,691818154,691845590,691823858,691845588,691835985],"class_list":["post-472791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-agriculture","tag-climate-alarmism","tag-climate-catastrophe","tag-climate-change","tag-food-production","tag-international-organisation-of-vine-and-wine-oiv","tag-net-zero","tag-roman-warming-period","tag-un-food-and-agriculture-organization-fao","tag-vineyards","tag-wine-industry","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1YZF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":265795,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=265795","url_meta":{"origin":472791,"position":0},"title":"Wrong, Bloomberg, Climate Change is Not \u2018Coming for Your Cabernet\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"07\/06\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"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.","rel":"","context":"In \"Bloomberg\"","block_context":{"text":"Bloomberg","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bloomberg"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-wine-production-in-South-Africa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-wine-production-in-South-Africa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-wine-production-in-South-Africa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-wine-production-in-South-Africa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/0-wine-production-in-South-Africa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C675&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":466406,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=466406","url_meta":{"origin":472791,"position":1},"title":"Wrong, Reuters, An Early Champagne Harvest Isn\u2019t Proof of Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/28\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Reuters reports in \u201cRecord-early champagne harvest highlights climate change impact on French vineyards\u201d that this year\u2019s record-early Champagne grape harvest demonstrates the impact of climate change on French vineyards and signals a troubling future for the region\u2019s wine industry. 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As\u00a0Climate Realism\u00a0showed in March, when CBC first aired similar claims, this is false.","rel":"","context":"In \"CBC\"","block_context":{"text":"CBC","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=cbc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0word-image-24.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0word-image-24.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0word-image-24.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0word-image-24.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/0word-image-24.webp?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":247266,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=247266","url_meta":{"origin":472791,"position":4},"title":"Wrong, CBC, Canadian Vineyards are Not Threatened by Climate Change","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/13\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"There is no evidence climate change has or will hamper Canadian wine production.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-308.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-308.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-308.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-308.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-308.png?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":412382,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=412382","url_meta":{"origin":472791,"position":5},"title":"The Independent is Wrong \u2013 Coffee, Chocolate, and Wine Are Thriving","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/09\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Independent\u2019s recent article, \u201cEngineering climate may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate, and wine,\u201d warns that even extreme geoengineering might not preserve \u201cluxury crops\u201d in a warming world. 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