Climate and Ag in the news
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The Georgia Municipal Association is offering a free webinar on Thursday, April 1, at 1:00 pm on challenges that cities, towns, and counties will have in the future due to warming temperatures and other impacts due to climate change. They will focus on issues like water supply during more frequent droughts, flooding concerns from aging…
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We’ve been doing well avoiding frost for the last few weeks as our blueberries and peaches bloomed, and I thought for a while that we might squeak by without another frost, at least in the southern states of our region. But it looks like another brief cold outbreak could bring frost to a wide part…
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Since I have a son who was crazy about trains when he was younger, I always note stories about new uses for public transportation. Here is an interesting story from Massive Science that describes an new initiative by Salt Lake City to measure air pollution across the city by putting sensors on their TRAX light…
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As always, there are many stories being published about climate and agriculture in the news. Here are some of the latest interesting ones I have read. They cover a variety of topics from cloud seeding to atmospheric optics to water quality impacts on eagles (featuring work by UGA professor Susan Wilde). The Guardian: US states…
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On Wednesday, March 31 at 11:00 am EDT I will be one of several speakers participating in a Georgia Climate Project webinar on how the changing climate is affecting Georgia’s agriculture. I will talk about changes we are seeing in climate in Georgia and then several farmers will discuss what these changes mean for how…
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Every ten years, the United States and many other countries release a new set of 30-year average temperature and precipitation values, which are called “climate normals”. They are intended to capture the average conditions for the last 30 years and are used by many industries, including agriculture, to make decisions about what kind of weather…
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According to Eater (one of my favorite food blogs), warmer temperatures in the coming decades may lead to an increase in the area where black truffles can grow. If you are not a food fanatic, it might be helpful to know that truffles are an expensive and highly regarded fungus that grows in the roots…
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