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Climate Change 2016
October 27-29, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 9(Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change
ISSN: 2157-7617 JESCC, an open access journal
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October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain
World Conference onClimate Change
The confluence of scholarly prediction and popular experience related to global climate change in the
wine producing region of Burgundy, France
Denyse Lemaire1 and Charles McGlynn 2
1Salish Kootenai College, USA
2Rowan University, USA
Burgundy is one of the major wine producing regions of France with more than 31,000 hectares covered in vines. For the past
two decades, reports about climate change and the effects it has or may have on viticulture have been published. Because
the grape’s cycle of budding, veraison, and maturation is precisely regulated by temperature, Burgundy’s wine growers have
clear evidence of the reality of the warming trend climate change scientists have reported; harvest dates are now significantly
earlier than in previous years (13 days in Beaune and 12 days in La Rochepot in the Hautes Cotes). This discussion will
examine how the confluence of scholarly prediction and popular experience has had an interesting but unfortunate impact on
the risk management strategies of many small-scale growers, whose equation of climate and weather has led to an unwarranted
assumption of the predictable regularity of destructive environmental events.
Biography
Denyse Lemaire completed her PhD in 1992 from the University of Brussels, Belgium. Having retired as a Full Professor in the Environment and Geography
Department at Rowan University in New Jersey, she currently teaches online classes for Thomas Edison University. She served two terms as the President of
the Wine Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. She is a member of the American Geophysical Union, of the Association of American
Geographers, and of the American Wine Society.
Denyse Lemaire et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2016, 7:9(Suppl)