"Gulp: Climate Change May Be Causing a Global Coffee Shortage"

"If there was ever a reason to rise up in support of a benevolent climate-obsessed world dictator, this could be it."



"Climate change has already taken the Winter Olympics, your Eggos, and the McDonald’s dollar menu, and now it’s coming for your coffee, too.

An epic drought—Brazil’s worst in decades—is threatening exports from the world’s largest coffee exporter and driving up wholesale prices worldwide. We’ve officially entered the realm of bloggers’ worst-case scenario."

Eric Holthaus reports for Slate February 25, 2014.

Source: Slate, 02/27/2014