Changing climate is brewing a crisis for coffee, prepare for it
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New Delhi: Who doesn’t like a cup of steaming coffee in the morning just to get rid of the blues?
If you are one of those who can’t do without coffee, remember you will have to cut corners.
Coffee is getting too expensive as the production is undercut globally by increasing climate change.
A new study published in the journal PLOS Climate blames the diminishing production of coffee on extreme weather events.
The global production of coffee could shrink by 50 percent from crop failures in multiple countries.
"Failures can be forced by spatially compounding climate anomalies, which in turn may be driven by large-scale climate phenomenon such as the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)," researchers reportedly said.
The researchers studied how 12 climate hazards worked up problems in the world’s 12 coffee-producing regions.
The study found that these hazards increased significantly between 1980 and 2020 from overly cool conditions to overly warm.
"A clear climate change signature is evident, as the type of hazard has shifted from overly cool conditions to overly warm. Spatially compounding hazards have become particularly common in the past decade, with only one of the six most hazardous years occurring before 2010," the study reportedly said.
The optimal temperature for two major coffee varieties—arabica, and robusta—is 18 to 22 degrees Celsius and 22 to 28 degrees Celsius.