What is the first industry to fall victim to climate change? There is a decent argument that it already happened – more than 600 years ago.
In 1066, the Normans installed a feudal aristocracy in the British Isles, and the invaders brought with them a love of winemaking.
Those skills flourished in the conditions of the Medieval Warm Period, a patch of unusually high temperatures from about 950 to 1250 that allowed vineyards to spread across the well-drained chalk soils of southern England.
The mild conditions gave way to a frigid period known as the Little Ice Age, however, which held sway until the 19th century. As the climate cooled, English viticulture collapsed.
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