Sunday, March 06, 2011

These people think you're stupid: Starbucks raises coffee prices because global warming is allegedly causing colder nights in Costa Rica?

Climate change takes toll on coffee growers, drinkers too | Seattle Times Newspaper
Last fall, Starbucks raised prices on some drinks to offset rising costs on commodities, notably coffee.

Global warming — more accurately called climate change — poses "a direct business threat to our company," Starbucks executive Jim Hanna told an Environmental Protection Agency panel in 2009 in Seattle.
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On the slopes of Volcano Poás, the biggest threats are colder nights, fiercer winds and rain that falls too hard and at the wrong times. Temperatures at Flores' coffee farms on Poás used to stay above 60 degrees at night, but now are dropping to 52 degrees.

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