What will global warming do to the wine industry?
Buy up those bottles of red Bordeaux, Mosel Riesling, Rioja, Chianti and Barossa Shiraz while you still can. No, it’s not a rerun of Prohibition — it’s global warming. While the wine industry isn’t a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (around 0.1 percent of global carbon emissions), it could be a casualty of climate change within the next 50 years [source: Atkin]. Wine grapes are delicate and grow in a narrow band around the world. The cumulative effects of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere are causing a change in climate pattern. In the last 100 years, the average global temperature has i
