Latest Global Warming Scare Tactic: Beer Will Cost More

Are they just desperate, or have they already used everything else to scare the bejeezus out of people? Now scientists are clamoring about the future cost of beer:

Jim Salinger, a climate scientist at New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, said climate change likely will cause a decline in the production of malting barley in parts of New Zealand and Australia. Malting barley is a key ingedient of beer.

“It will mean either there will be pubs without beer or the cost of beer will go up,” Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention.

Now that’s funny. Pubs without beer. Stop it! I can’t type when I am laughing like this.

These guys want me to believe that in thirty years, there will be a shortage on barley. Allow me to show you what we were being told thirty years ago:

That was the headline on the front page of the New York Times in 1975.

Here’s the Times’ headline in 1933:

And just nine years before that, in 1924:

But now, we are supposed to worry about our beer, because once again, the climate is changing. Pardon me if I don’t run for the hills in outright panic.