Breaking story: This could be IT, folks

Hold on to your seats, folks. This could be the tipping point, the big break-through in convincing conservative politicians that climate change is real and that we must do something about it.

A report from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture says that, if two West African countries, Ghana and the Ivory Coast, experience a 2.3 Celsius degree jump in temperature by 2050, the climate won't be suitably cool enough to grow the crop that the farmer's in those countries rely on as their sole crop. Their whole national economy would collapse.

Furthermore, almost half of the world's supply comes from those two countries. This could be devastating.

Oh, yes, of course you want to know what the crop is, don't you?
Cocoa -- from which the world's supply of chocolate is made.

Give up chocolate?

Maybe now those Repubs pandering to the Tea Party will take climate change seriously. I can see the bumper stickers now:

"Rick Perry Wants to Take Away Your Chocolate."

"Vote for Mitt and Kiss Your Hershey's Goodbye."

"Republicans Hate Valentine's Day."

Newspaper headlines:
"Unemployment Soars to 50% in Hershey, PA
Due to Chocolate Factories Closing."

"Obama Wins Pennsylvania by a Landslide."

Ralph