Climate Progress compiled a list of a few of our favorite things that are impacted by climate change. When we usually talk about carbon pollution, the data centers around rising seas but this is a different kind of list. "These things can seem distant and unlikely to affect most people’s day-to-day lives, but there is growing evidence that the reality of climate change will strike close to home," writes Ryan Koronowski." Below is a list of things of things that will be negatively affected by climate change that may not immediately come to mind when someone says “the greenhouse effect.” 

Check it out below:

Beer

Climate change endangers clean water, quality barley, and ample hops. A study from 2009 suggested that the quality of Saaz hops from the Czech Republic has been falling since 1954 due to warmer temperatures. This is true for hops-growing regions across Europe. Smaller brewers like Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing Company understand the seriousness of the problem, as the company’s sustainability director said in 2011, “If you drink beer now, the issue of climate change is impacting you right now. … Craft brewers — the emphasis there is on craft. We make something, and it’s a deeply agricultural product.”

Football

Football practice starts up in high schools every summer, and the hottest part of the year keeps getting hotter. Schools began to notice a trend: their players were dying more and more frequently due to heat stress, three times as frequently from 1994 to 2009. While increasing heat is not the only factor for these heat deaths (increasing obesity being another), rising temperatures are having serious impacts on the safety of high school and college football. So Arkansas, Arizona, Connecticut, North Carolina, New Jersey and Texas all started to implement rules that limit practice time when the field gets too hot. Climate also messes with football in between heat waves, as drought has been drying up football fields and killing grass. Switching to artificial turf might make things greener, but because synthetic materials can get up to 100 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than regular grass, tackling becomes even more dangerous than normal.

Read and weep HERE. 

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