Let's capitalize on global warming: New limits for vineyard vines in Europe

The global warming is 0.6ºC over the past three decades and 0.8°C in the last century. If between the ends of the XIXth century and since 1975 has been a slow global warming with large fluctuations in recent years, especially after 2000, it has accelerated considerably. In the first half of the decade of the XXIst century, this warming has a growth rate of 0.2ºC / decade. Climate change felt in the viticulture presents some advantages in terms of expanding the northern limits of vine cultivation. It is likely that many countries will be able to produce wine in the future amid global warming, and this fact must be capitalized. The digitization age together with international cooperation makes possible redrawing accurately the northern limit of vine cultivation in the context of climate change. Use of high performance software in forecasting/prediction and identification of new potential productive areas for vineyards will improve the classical methods because, as it is normal, it operates much faster than the human resource, it uses the same set of primary information as human resource and it does not allow subjective interpretation, as it uses the same standards for each case