By Paul Homewood

 

h/t Patsy Lacey

 

Another Bobby Dazzler from young Joe Pinkstone in the Mail.

Funny enough, it appears in the Science and Technology section, although the Children’s page seems more appropriate!

 

Beer-guzzlers worldwide could see their beloved drink skyrocket in price thanks to global warming.

Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are making droughts and heatwaves more common and it is having a devastating impact on barley fields around the world.

Barley is a key ingredient in the common tipple and could soon become a rarity thanks to plummeting yields.

Experts are now warning that this barley shortage could force the price of a pint to rise by up to double. 

According to the scientists, the price of a six-pack of beer could go up by an extra £15 ($20) in Ireland.

A global temperature rise of of 1.5°C-2.5°C (2.7°F- 4.5°F) is expected to cause a price increase of 10-15 per cent.

Under current trends, the world is on course to rise in temperature by 3°C (5.4°F), although the UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned last week that limiting warming to under 1.5°C (2.76°F) would avert the worst effects of climate change.

Research co-author Dr Steven Davis, from the University of California at Irvine in the US, said: ‘The world is facing many life-threatening impacts of climate change, so people having to spend a bit more to drink beer may seem trivial by comparison.

‘But there is definitely a cross-cultural appeal to beer, and not having a cool pint at the end of an increasingly common hot day just adds insult to injury.’  

Only 17 per cent of the barley produced in the world is used in brewing, the authors point out, as most is harvested as feed for livestock.

The researchers predicted that hungry animals would be first in the queue for available barley, ahead of thirsty humans.

Barley growing regions including the northern Great Plains of the US, the Canadian prairies, Europe, Australia, and the Asian steppe were all likely to experience more frequent droughts in years to come as a result of global warming.

Beer prices were predicted to rise most in wealthy beer-loving countries such as Belgium, Canada, Denmark and Poland.

Co-author Dr Nathan Mueller, also from the University of California at Irvine, said: ‘Current levels of fossil fuel consumption and CO2 (carbon dioxide) pollution – business as usual – will result in this worst-case scenario, with more weather extremes negatively impacting the world’s beer basket.

‘Our study showed that even modest warming will lead to increases in drought and excessive heat events in barley-growing areas.’

Droughts and heat waves were expected to cause barley declines of up to 17 per cent in parts of the US, Europe, Australia and Asia where the grain is grown most.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6278091/Climate-change-cause-beer-DOUBLE-price.html

 

“Rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are making droughts and heatwaves more common and it is having a devastating impact on barley fields around the world”

DOHH!!

If young Joe had bothered to actually check the real world data, he would have discovered he had been fed a pack of lies:

 

http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare

 

In reality, barley yields have been steadily rising while all of this disastrous weather, heatwaves and droughts have been going on.

 

We used to get serious articles on climate change by David Rose. Unfortunately, I hear on the grapevine that he has now been banned writing any more of these.

Instead, we have to put up with young Joe, who does not appear to know his right elbow from his left knee, and happily swallows any nonsense he is fed, without even bothering to fact check first.