The general acceptance that global warming is happening has certainly landed when wine columnists start writing about the effects on wine quality.
The distinguished line-up of academics, viticulturists and climatologists agreed that the effects of global warming could be profound. One speaker argued grape growing will be ‘unviable in most of the traditional Catalonian wine regions within the next 40 to 70 years’, which is worrying if you’re a Cava producer. Another warned of the problems that Atlantic regions, such as Bordeaux and Galicia, could face because of changes in the Gulf Stream and their effect on temperature and rainfall patterns.
Meanwhile, if you want to find out if you should put you home on stilts, this Google Maps mashup (think I used that term correctly) shows what sea-rise levels will flood which bits of the UK.
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