Climate change threatens to destroy crops, submerge coastal cities and parch whole populations. Rising temperatures in France tend to produce early-ripening fruit, which is typically linked to highly rated wines, according to a study published in March by the journal Nature Climate Change. “But since 1980, it’s been so warm because of climate change that you can get the hot summers and really early harvests without needing a drought.”And not all German winemakers are cheering the change. Organic vineyards there were hit hard by a warm, wet summer that bred infections and blight not easily fought off without chemicals. But the folks at the Weingut Friedrich Becker Estate in Schweigen, Germany, are celebrating the harvest of pinot noir grapes this year:

Source: Huffington Post October 05, 2016 19:30 UTC