Pam Knox
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SERCH announced in their newsletter today (see earlier post) that their next installment on the climate vulnerabilities of loblobby pines is now available at https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/serch/climate-vulnerabilities-of-loblolly-pine-part-ii-precipitation/. The first part discussed the impacts of rising temperatures; this part describes the impacts of variable precipitation on the trees in the Southeast.
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The USDA Southeast Regional Climate Hub published its latest newsletter today. The issue has a list of several upcoming webinars related to agriculture and climate as well as climate summaries for December and for 2015. You can read it by clicking here.
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One of the arguments that I hear from time to time is that discussions about a warming climate are relatively new and that in the 1970s and 1980s scientists were talking about global cooling, not warming (see https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm for some information about this). A friend of mine on Facebook posted this news clip on YouTube from…
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The latest climate summary for Florida is now available from David Zierden, the State Climatologist. You can see it at https://climatecenter.fsu.edu/products-services/summaries/climate-summary-for-florida-january-2016.
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The US Department of Agriculture has just released a new report on the impacts of drought on forests and rangelands. It includes descriptions of the types of drought, impacts on water supplies and vegetation, and includes information on how to deal with the impacts effectively. You can find it at https://www.fs.fed.us/sites/default/files/DROUGHT_book-web-1-11-16.pdf.
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February 2 is the day when we traditionally celebrate Groundhog Day, when groundhogs everywhere (or at least where there are active tourist bureaus) come out to determine whether or not there will be six more weeks of winter. It amazes me that people trust the wisdom of a glorified rat more than real climatologists when…
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The Packer had a story last week on the impacts of the East Coast snowstorm on mushroom growers in Pennsylvania. The heavy snow collapsed roofs of growing facilities, closed roads to trucks and prevented workers from getting to the farms. This is likely to result in a temporary shortage of fresh mushrooms in the East.…