Brazil climate change allegedly threatens top coffee crop (AP) | Yahoo! Green
The climate change panel's computer models show that even slight warming will reduce crop yields across the tropics. Brazil may be better equipped than most to adapt, since its scientists have spent decades developing fertilizer and soil management, infrastructure and public policies that have transformed arid tropical plains into today's thriving agricultural zones.Lind-Waldock®: Commodity Futures Trading Education
"We should see the real changes in 10 or 20 years" from global warming, said genetic engineering specialist Francisco Aragao. "If we want to do agricultural investigations to combat the effects, you have to start now."
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Isn't the real question what cold will do?
Exactly. Over the years coffee production moved steadily northwards from Paraná and São Paulo states into Mina Gerais and Espirito Santo states because of frosts in winter in the southern states. Besides, if global warming were caused by CO2 etc the effect would be more intense towards the poles as the atmosphere in the tropical zone is saturated with water vapor already.
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