| Global Warming is something we all hear
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| about. We hear mention of it on the news,
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| we see protests regarding it on college
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| | This study, which was funded by the
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| campuses, and we receive messages about
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| | National Science Foundation, Purdue
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| it in our email in-boxes. But, most of us
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| | University, and NASA, took supercomputer
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| don't really understand what it is, or we
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| | calculations over a span of five months,
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| choose to ignore it. However, for those
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| | calculating daily temperature swings
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| of us who are wine drinkers, Global
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| | contingent on climate-change situations,
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| Warming is knocking so hard we are about
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| | under the assumption that carbon dioxide
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| to have no choice but to open the cellar
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| | levels would continue as outlined in the
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| door.
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| | standard Global Warming scenarios (levels
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| | that warn gases will rise to over twice
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| Guide to Global Warming
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| | their current levels by 2100).
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| In a nutshell, Global Warming is the
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| gradual increase of the temperature of
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| | Because the production of quality grapes
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| the earth's lower atmosphere. This
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| | is reliant on a balance of the yin and
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| warming has been increasing since the
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| | yang of mother-nature, with an easily
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| Industrial Revolution, with the
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| | disturbed equilibrium of hot and cold
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| prevalence of greenhouse gases. These
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| | being a major factor, the change in
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| greenhouse gases trap more heat near the
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| | climate from Global Warming could be
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| earth, increasing global temperatures.
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| | detrimental to the ability to make
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| | quality wine. And, if the equilibrium was
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| Though Global Warming doesn't sound that
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| | weighed too heavily on one side - with
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| bad, with many people's image of it being
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| | weather that was too hot or too cold -
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| that of a globe wrapped snuggly in a warm
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| | the ability to make grapes could
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| blanket, it's something that needs to be
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| | disappear altogether.
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| taken seriously and it's something that
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| could greatly hinder, and destroy, the
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| | Why it Matters
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| future. The feared long term impacts
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| | No one wants to be credited as "that
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| include melting of polar ice, causing
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| | guy" or "that girl" who helped destroy
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| coastal flooding and a rise in sea level;
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| | the earth, unleashing diseases and
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| a disruption in the drinking supply, with
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| | viruses on the masses. And, no one wants
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| much of the water supply becoming
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| | to be credited as helping to destroy wine
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| contingent on snow melts; vast changes of
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| | vineyards, picking grapes off their vines
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| agriculture and farming, causing havoc
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| | and stomping them into oblivion.
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| among the world's crop supplies;
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| extinction of certain species; and an
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| | Global Warming, like so many
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| increase in both tropical storms and
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| | environmental threats, is easy to ignore:
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| tropical diseases.
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| | the fall out from it probably won't be
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| | directly felt in our lifetime. However,
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| And, in regards to wine, Global Warming
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| | it will be felt in the lifetime of our
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| could lead to the destruction of many of
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| | children and our grandchildren. While
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| the vineyards across the nation by the
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| | some people shrug their shoulders at this
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| end of the century.
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| | notion, we must take into account this
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| | reality: if our grandparents left us with
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| Affect on Wine
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| | a destroyed world, we'd be pretty ticked
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| A new computerized climate study
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| | off. And nothing, not even a hefty
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| recently released in the journal
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| | inheritance, could make up for it.
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| Proceedings of the National Academy of
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| Sciences predicted that an increase in
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| | What Can be Done
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| the number of days hotter than 95 degrees
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| | There is no quick fix to stopping Global
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| during the growing season could sharply
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| | Warming, pulling the plug on it is a
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| reduce the amount of areas able to
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| | lengthy process, made up of extension
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| produce vintage wine-grape production.
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| | cord after extension cord. However, there
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| This would also cause the elimination of
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| | are a few things that can be done to help
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| vineyards nationwide and cause the
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| | slow the process, and eventually stop it
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| vineyards capable of producing the most
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| | altogether.
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| expensive premium wines to be cut in
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