Anonymous Coward User ID: 1211168 United States 03/14/2011 12:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Global Warming Alert! - Global Warming Is Responsible For Damaging The Coffee TIMBÍO, Colombia — Like most of the small landowners in Colombia’s lush mountainous Cauca region, Luis Garzón, 80, and his family have thrived for decades by supplying shade-grown, rainforest-friendly Arabica coffee for top foreign brands like Nespresso and Green Mountain. A sign in the center of a nearby town proclaims, “The coffee of Cauca is No. 1!” But in the last few years, coffee yields have plummeted here and in many of Latin America’s other premier coffee regions as a result of rising temperatures and more intense and unpredictable rains, phenomena that many scientists link partly to global warming. [ link to www.nytimes.com] |