Pam Knox
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Water vapor and carbon dioxide are both contributors to greenhouse warming on the Earth. I’ve gotten questions from time to time about their relative importance to greenhouse warming. Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA provides a good discussion of the topic in a recent Forbes.com blog post here.
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Thirty years ago, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Republican John Chafee convened a two-day hearing on climate change. Chris Mooney writes in the Washington Post that the top level message of scientists at the time was “eerily” familiar to today. Much of what the climate scientists were saying in 1986…
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Extremely hot conditions have brought a spate of record high temperatures to some parts of the country, including a few records set in the Southeast late last week. This does not look like it will change any time soon, unfortunately. You can read more about the heat in the Southwest and what to do to keep yourself…
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The latest outlook from the Climate Prediction Center gives a high chance of above-normal temperatures this summer and extending on into next fall and winter. The summer chances are mainly linked to long-term warming trends in temperature, while next winter’s warm temperatures are tied to the likely development of a La Niña in the next…
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Earthzine published an interesting article earlier this month about the decrease in wind speeds that have occurred in recent years compared to the longer-term average. You can read it at https://earthzine.org/2016/06/10/a-new-kind-of-drought-u-s-record-low-windiness-in-2015/. This is important because of our increasing use of wind power to provide electricity, since lower wind speeds are less efficient for power production and…
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The Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate blog has a new post about farm decision-making and economic realities in dealing with changes in climate. You can read it at https://animalagclimatechange.org/driver-of-change/.
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The summer solstice arrives on Monday at 6:34 EDT. You can read about what it is on the WunderBlog at https://www.wunderground.com/news/summer-solstice-first-day-summer-20140619#prclt-JnRYWA1s. You might also be interested to read about the difference in the length of day from north to south at EarthSky here. Happy astronomical summer!