Monday, April 12, 2010

English winegrowers benefit from global warming
As world leaders grapple with how to tackle climate change, England's winegrowers are embarrassed to admit that global warming is suiting them rather well.
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"We are benefiting from a global disaster. It seems horrible, inappropriate, but that's how it is," admitted Christopher Foss, the head of wine studies at Plumpton College in Sussex, southern England.
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Winegrowers have in recent years begun planting in southern English regions once home to Roman vineyards and are seeing their efforts bear fruit.
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