Inquirer: BEERY BOFFINS have warned that global warming could halt lager production. World-wide panic is expected in pubs throughout the world as a decline in the production of malting barley in Australia and New Zealand hits breweries. "It will mean there will be pubs without beer," climate-watching brainiac Jim Salinger told the Institute of Brewing and Distilling convention. Another speaker told delegates that, "in addition to climate change, barley growers are …