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Coffee Crisis Looming, Global Warming is Real

He’ll be out a job and you’ll be without your daily coffee fix if we all don’t get our heads out of our asses and admit that global warming is real. By Diane Keeney Death and Taxes Mag March 11, 2011 As coffee yields plummet in Colombia due to unusual weather patterns connected to global warming, coffee prices will continue to rise. And maybe, just maybe, when their wallets are emptied and the caffeine withdrawal kicks in, the naysayers and the nihilists will admit that we’ve really done an irrevocable disservice to our planet. Colombia is the largest producer of Arabica coffee in the world and the second largest producer of coffee overall. According to the New York Times, Colombia produced over 12 million 132-pound bags of coffee in 2006, aiming to raise production rates around 2% by 2014. Last year’s production didn’t even make 10 million bags. While the country’s location on the the lush Andes mountains makes Colombia one of the prime regions in Latin America for shade-g...