Bummer: Global warming would allegedly be bad for Canadian prairie farmers

Grounds for concern - thestar.com

Up to 60 per cent of the world’s coffee-growing regions will no longer be viable by 2050 thanks to climate change, according to a recent estimate from the Global Coffee Quality Research Initiative.
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“I’m not prone to hyperbole, but climate change is going to be the biggest financial issue for the next generation,” said Kron, adding that Smucker’s got 40 per cent of its revenues and 48 per cent of its earnings from coffee last year.
...For every three-inch drop in Great Lake levels, Bowie estimates the typical 700-foot container ship would lose $350,000 in annual revenues.

Bowie says that there’s no question the long-term trend for lake levels is down.
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The future viability — both agriculturally and financially — of Canada’s grain-growing prairie heartland is also at risk because of climate change, says University of Guelph professor Barry Smit.

In the 1930s, many people, including Smit’s father, abandoned their prairie farms because of continuing droughts.
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Canada’s wine industry is affected by global warming in a somewhat counterintuitive way, said Smit. In some recent years, wineries in the Niagara Region have suffered from so-called winter kill, where roots are damaged because of severe cold. The reason? There was no ice on Lake Ontario, meaning air swept across the lake and towards the vineyards picked up a chill from the water; normally, the ice acts as an insulator.

“People would say ‘I hear about global warming, and my vines are freezing.’ It’s not always going to affect people in the way they think, but it’s real,” said Smit.