60 Minutes 54x15 - Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power
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Weather and Wine – Scientists say climate change is alteringthe world's prime wine-growing regions. Extreme weatherepisodes like unusual heat and damaging frosts are upending thepractices and economics of winemaking, and in some cases,changing the taste of the wine itself – from Napa Valley toSpain, Italy, and France. But the rising temperatures havealso had other unforeseen effects, like in Great Britain,where the warming weather has been a boon to England's wineindustry. Lesley Stahl traveled to France and Great Britain todocument the impact of climate change on the great wine regionsof the world. This is a two-part story. Drawing Truth toPower – Badiucao, China's foremost political cartoonist andstreet artist, uses his pointed drawings to poke at ChinesePresident Xi Jinping and his authoritarian regime in publicways. He is best known for plastering large posters of hiscartoons on walls all over Australia and Europe and online,such as a depiction of President Xi hunting for Winnie the Poohafter China censored images of the Disney character when aninternet meme compared Xi's appearance to Pooh. His drawings goviral worldwide after he posts them on social media, and hehas predictably drawn the ire of the Chinese government. Nowexiled in Australia, Badiucao, not his real name, was forcedto use colorful ski masks to disguise his identity for years.Jon Wertheim interviews China's artful dissident unmaskedSunday in this episode.
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