When we talk about climate change, most often we are talking about the changes in temperature, cloud cover and rainfall that are occurring due to increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases across the globe. But climate also changes locally, and many of these local changes are due to other human causes such as land use changes. Previously I’ve linked to articles which discussed the impact of irrigation on local rainfall in the Midwest. This week there is an article in Salon which describes the impact on climate when you leave your fields with vegetation cover instead of leaving them bare. You can read it at https://www.salon.com/2018/04/13/how-farmers-on-the-great-plains-are-changing-the-local-climate_partner/.
