let's hope arabica coffee's not a victim...

admin

good reason to be serious about global warming... take a read here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/10/coffee_under_climate_threat/

FreshCoffee2

I havent read this artikill, but..... Regurgitating from a seminar I recently attended and found very interesting and informative: There will be less arabica, and more robusta. Robusta can handle a warmer climate, arabica cant. Arabica wont adapt because each generation is virtually a clone of the last, whereas robusta reproduces and undergoes natural selection, so it will continue to adapt over time. There only needs to a general shift of 2 degrees C for arabica to have reached the top end of the temperature range where it can grow.  There are both high and low quality arabicas as there are high and low quality robustas (which is why the "100% arabica" line on a packet of coffee is nothing more than cynical marketing hype..what type of arabica?), and the only true test is to roast and blend and see if something tastes good in your mouth. If it does, does it matter which types of coffee are in it? Done wurry be happy! Hope that helps.

FreshCoffee2

And of course it must be another "no news" day again..... as I was getting ready for work I had the today show on for a bit of weather and "news'....and they were running the story as lifted off some american network....with bystanders interviewed lamenting how they were ever going to get by without their coffee...meaning only one small part of the story had been given them to get a reaction. Yup, another no news day......