Pam Knox
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A recent study on changes in sea level since 800 BC shows that sea level is now rising at a rate that is higher than any other period in the last roughly 3000 years. The study was based on a new dataset of sea level elevations at 24 locations around the globe. You can…
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Last weekend I pointed out that Fiji was about to take a direct hit from strong tropical cyclone Winston. NOAA’s Climate blog has a post-storm analysis of Winston at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/tropical-cyclone-winston-causes-devastation-fiji-tropical-paradise. According to Investment Fiji, “Agriculture (is) the mainstay of Fiji’s economy, and contributes around 28% to total employment in the formal sector, indirectly employing many more.…
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The Southern SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) has released a new guide to agroforestry, the “Sustainable Agroforestry Practices in the Southeastern United States: Training Handbook for Training Field Extension and Technical Assistance Personnel”. Here is what they say about it: “This handbook has been developed to train field-level Extension and technical assistance personnel, who are…
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After several years of drought, Californians were looking forward to a wet El Niño season to refill their reservoirs and recharge their water systems. But while northern California has seen much more rain than in the last few years, southern California is still suffering from a major lack of water, and drought conditions as well…
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The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites produced a 9 minute long video which show the entire year of weather as viewed by satellites. It is interesting to watch the patterns of weather change over the course of the year. You can see the narrated video as well as some other photos of weather…
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There is a good chance of severe weather for parts of the Southeast on Tuesday and Wednesday, particularly later in the day on Tuesday. The Day 2 convective forecast map from Monday night highlights the area that is most likely to be hit by tornadoes in southern Mississippi and Alabama, but many areas of the…
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Modern Farmer published an interesting short article last week about how early agricultural practices changed the local and global climate. Slash and burn techniques caused big changes in land use and injected a lot of carbon into the atmosphere, both as carbon dioxide and as black soot, both of which change the climate in different…