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I watched Don't Look Up, it's pretty depressingly funny, not a great movie, but OK.

I thought it was pretty good.  Comedy Noir is difficult to do well.  This one was a bit of a cross between Idiocracy and Dr. Strangelove, and I felt it worked.

Yeah, pretty good, I later read it was a commentary on climate change, which I thought it did very poorly.

They were definitely attempting to draw analogues to climate change.  It was pretty clunky and heavy-handed from that perspective, no subtlety or nuance.  Exactly what you'd expect from Hollywood, to be honest.

Although it was written pre-COVID, I actually find the analogues to the pandemic to be a lot more interesting.  All of the social media distractions and deliberate obfuscation, the general confusion and lack of care from large segments of the population-- those elements rang pretty true as a commentary on some of the global and domestic responses to the pandemic.

All in all, I think they made a movie that was much better now, than it would have been 3 years ago.

A COVID parallel would have made more sense, to me, a comet striking the planet at a known time is very very different from climate change.

We're not doing anything but shuffling deck chairs on climate change because there is not practicable solution, just as we'd have no solution to a comet 9 lm across about to impact the planet.

I was an invited speaker at a wine conference near Paris a few years back, the first speaker talked about the impact of CC on theh wine industry.  It was in French, but the upshot was "dire and soon".  Wine grapes require specific terroir to make very good wine, and you can't move most wine regions a bit north to get a cooler climate because the soil changes, or it's a river or mountain or whatever.  (Napa is cooler in the south anyway).  So, CC SHOULD harm the wine industry "soon", but hasn't.  Yet.

It's a canary in the mine of coal in effect.  Part of this is the changes in T reported to date are actually pretty modest, well within normal variation year over year, and growers can manage, but IF we double that, I think many would be in trouble.  But I also think they would be 50 years from now, not 2030.

The T change is so slow we wouldn't notice it vicariously without instrumentation.

Yes, it would be horrible if our 100x great grandchildren can't drink wine from some region once known as France. 

I'd venture that the effect on the French wine industry is going to be so gradual that we may not even notice. If the wine changes slowly over 20-30 years, in 30 years we might just believe that that's what Bordeaux or Cotes du Rhone are just "supposed" to taste like, even though it has changed.

Could be.  Or it could be one of those "tippy" situations, hysterisis of the soil, so to speak.

Either way, I was of course kidding, there are far larger concerns with climate change.  But it would be a shame if the most delicious wines on the planet were ever made less so.

My comment really is related to the "canary in the coal mine" aspect.  This is one area where we should see changes quickly.  I think Burgundy would be most impacted earliest, and they routinely produce 7-8 of the ten priciest wines on the planet.  They can't move and their varietals are very temperature sensitive.

The only American wine to make the priciest list is a sauvignon blanc oddly enough.