Climate Change will make coffee extinct or something like that

The terror. Sit down I tell you.  The ABC tells us that you should "Grab a latte while you still can".

In full, the true catastrophe is that if the models that are always wrong get something right, some wild coffee relatives, but not actual coffee crop plants, might go extinct. We don't use them for coffee but you never know, we might one day use them as breeding stock. It's that serious.

And we can't save the seeds because apparently liquid nitrogen is too expensive. Wail. Gnash. Fawn.

Since bulk liquid nitrogen is cheaper than spring water, I rank this one as a Prime SkyWhale Class Scare, it's all hot-air and scary for the wrong reason. You are meant to be afraid of the end of coffee, but what's really frightening is that science journalism is dead instead.

By Belinda Smith and Nick Kilvert, ABC Australia

Most coffee species at risk of extinction due to climate change, scientists warn

The set up:

You might also want to sit down before reading this. And maybe grab another latte while you still can.

Of the 124 wild coffee species worldwide, UK researchers have declared at least 60 [...]

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