Beer

Would you still be driving your 2 mpg Hummer and crushing the environment under the weight of your enormous carbon footprint if you knew you were personally causing the extinction of beer?

We didn’t think so. From Grist:

Malting barley will likely be harder to grow in a warming world, especially in Australia, says climate scientist Jim Salinger. He warned at an Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention Tuesday that within the next 30 years, "either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up."

This is either a Sobering Climate Change Fact or a brilliant marketing maneuver designed to bring rednecks, bubbas and college fraternities into the anti-climate change cause.

If this isn’t an apocalyptic vision of a post-warming world, then nothing is.

See you in the pub, Tom Chandler.