Posted on Jun 18, 2022
There's a nationwide Sriracha shortage, and climate change may be to blame
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https://www.npr.org/2022/06/17/ [login to see] /sriracha-shortage-chilli-climate-change
Sorry, Sriracha fans, your favorite hot sauce is running out nationwide.
The company that makes Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods, wrote in an email to customers in late April that it will have to stop making the sauce for the next few months due to "severe weather conditions affecting the quality of chili peppers."
The spicy sauce has something of a cult following, and so when the news filtered through, some fans took to social media to express their dismay and post about panic buying (with varying degrees of irony.)
Sorry, Sriracha fans, your favorite hot sauce is running out nationwide.
The company that makes Sriracha, Huy Fong Foods, wrote in an email to customers in late April that it will have to stop making the sauce for the next few months due to "severe weather conditions affecting the quality of chili peppers."
The spicy sauce has something of a cult following, and so when the news filtered through, some fans took to social media to express their dismay and post about panic buying (with varying degrees of irony.)
There's a nationwide Sriracha shortage, and climate change may be to blame
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""This has been the driest 22 years in the last 1,200 years," UCLA hydroclimatologist Park Williams said. Williams recently led a study of the megadrought, published in Nature Climate Change.
He said the megadrought conditions drying up water reservoirs in the U.S. made it harder for Mexico to deal with its water shortages.
"We share some of the same climate, but we also share some of the same water," Williams said. "So over the last 23 years as we've seen our largest reservoirs get drained, this puts Mexico and Mexican agriculture at a risk of being even more water limited than it would be already."
It's hard to say climate change caused the drought, Williams said, but it's certainly made it worse. His research estimates that about 40% of the drought can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
Still, Williams said we can make a huge difference by limiting how bad climate change gets.
"Limiting global warming to below 2 degree Celsius puts us in a much better situation than if we let global warming go to 3 degrees or 4 degrees Celsius."
So keeping Sriracha hot may depend on keeping the planet cool."
...""This has been the driest 22 years in the last 1,200 years," UCLA hydroclimatologist Park Williams said. Williams recently led a study of the megadrought, published in Nature Climate Change.
He said the megadrought conditions drying up water reservoirs in the U.S. made it harder for Mexico to deal with its water shortages.
"We share some of the same climate, but we also share some of the same water," Williams said. "So over the last 23 years as we've seen our largest reservoirs get drained, this puts Mexico and Mexican agriculture at a risk of being even more water limited than it would be already."
It's hard to say climate change caused the drought, Williams said, but it's certainly made it worse. His research estimates that about 40% of the drought can be attributed to human-caused climate change.
Still, Williams said we can make a huge difference by limiting how bad climate change gets.
"Limiting global warming to below 2 degree Celsius puts us in a much better situation than if we let global warming go to 3 degrees or 4 degrees Celsius."
So keeping Sriracha hot may depend on keeping the planet cool."
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