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Uh Oh! Climate Change Could Cause Beer Shortage

Uh Oh! Climate Change Could Cause Beer Shortage

Not the beer, save the beer!

Beer’s main ingredient, Barley, is at risk.

Barley is sensitive to extreme drought and heat, and a research study finds climate change will have a direct effect on those crops, causing a global beer shortage.

“The aim of the study is not to encourage people to drink more today,” said Dabo Guan, a co-author of the study. “if you don’t want that to happen — if you still want a few pints of beer — then the only way to do it is to mitigate climate change,” Guan said. “We have to all work together to mitigate climate change.”

Read more via CNN.com.

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