Inside scientists’ mission to save America’s wine industry from climate change - West Hawaii Today
Inside scientists’ mission to save America’s wine industry from climate change - West Hawaii Today
Inside scientists’ mission to save America’s wine industry from climate change
Oregon State University researcher Cole Cerrato, left, and graduate student Lindsay Garcia prepare to send smoke from a small grill onto a row of wine grapes at the university's vineyard on Sept. 8 near Alpine, Ore. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)
FILE - A crew of vineyard workers pick cabernet franc grapes as the sun rises at Seven Hills Vineyard in Milton-Freewater, Ore., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The U.S. West Coast produces over 90% of America's wine, but the region is also prone to wildfires — a combustible combination that spelled disaster for the wine industry in 2020 and one that scientists are scrambling to neutralize. (Greg Lehman/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP, File)
A wildfire burns behind a winery in 2017 in Santa Rosa, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Related Knowledge Center: Climate science
What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.