Pam Knox
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Marshall Shepherd posted an interesting blog at Forbes.com on common posts that climatologists see all the time on Facebook and other social media about global warming. You’ve probably seen some of them too. Unfortunately, when someone claims that having a snowstorm disproves global warming or other such myth, they are really just displaying their ignorance of…
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If you are looking for information on recent severe weather in Georgia, here are a couple of articles that describe some of the conditions we have felt this month so far along with a tool for showing severe weather reports on an interactive map. I’ve also included a link to a NOAA retrospective on the…
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Following the devastating tsunami which hit northern Japan in 2011 following a massive earthquake, a large area of land was covered by salt water, which deposited the salt behind, making it difficult for anything to grow. Scientists identified varieties of rice which were more tolerant of the salty soil and used those to develop a…
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The American Institute of Physics has an extensive web discussion on the history of global warming in the literature, based on a book called “Discovery of Global Warming” by Spencer Weart. It contains links to a variety of sources on different subjects, including the history of climate change science, climate datasets, the impact of changing solar…
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Continuing our look at droughts around the globe, NASA posted a story last month about the drought in the eastern Mediterranean based on some recent research that was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. The research showed that based on climate data and tree ring analysis from the region, which includes Israel, Syria,…
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On my Facebook feed today from the World Meteorological Organization was this incredible photo taken in Alexandra, New Zealand, on Thursday. The thick layer of high cirrostratus cloud combined with some lenticular clouds – which are caused by a strong northwest flow over the Alps – create an eerie spectacle, which is illuminated by the…
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Jim Angel, the Illinois State Climatologist, noted that today marks the 60th anniversary of the first date that a tornado was seen on radar. Now we have much more sophisticated radars that not only see the storms in multiple dimensions and colors but can also point out flying debris as well as flying birds and…