Climate Change Winners and Losers – Where Do Wine-Makers Sit?

As I’m sure readers here have observed, my opinions on climate change are taken directly and exclusively from the 97+% of mainstream climate scientists, some of whom I know personally, that tell us two things:

• anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real

• people who point to individual storms or other events as evidence of AGW are not standing on solid scientific ground

Yet, since it’s been a slow news day, I can’t help but report something that one of the greatest winemakers in my home state of California (the locus of a mere 88% of the total US capacity) told me when I met him at a gathering this afternoon: Due to the extreme heat, 2013 has been the earliest grape harvest in his career.  While he’s trying not to (his words) “freak out” about it, he notes that the extra few weeks of growing probably would have added more flavor to the wine ultimately produced from the grapes.

Hearing this certainly made me wonder if AGW isn’t affecting this gentleman’s industry.