Seasonal events test German cool climate Riesling growers:Facing up to the challenges of climate change

摘要

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody ever does anything about it," wrote American author Mark Twain.More than a century later, much the same can be written of climate change. Indeed, it's now 30 years since the international body charged with assessing climate science -the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - first met in Geneva, Switzerland. Who's made mention of that?Relevant data, of course, mounts up day by day. January 2018 saw the release of the Annual Climate Statement by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology. The news wasn't good. Last year was Australia's third hottest on record.Officially 21.5° Celsius, the area-averaged mean temperature for 2017 was almost a full degree above that calculated for 1961-1990. Simple averaging of temperature maxima made it the second warmest year on record in Australia. Our five hottest years have all occurred since 2005.