"Heat and Drought Could Threaten World Beer Supply"

"A new study says a warming globe will be bad news for barley, an essential ingredient in the world’s most popular alcoholic beverage."

"If horrific hurricanes and a new, scarier-than-ever United Nations report don’t change attitudes on climate change, perhaps a new report on barley will.

A small international team of scientists considered what the effect of climate change would be for this crop in the next 80 years, and they are raising an alarm they hope will pierce the din of political posturing.

They are predicting a beer shortage."

James Gorman reports for the New York Times October 15, 2018.