Climate and Ag in the news
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I love to read stories about places that are set outside my local community, especially if they give me new insight into how things are changing over time. This story on rural Kansas in NewFoodEconomy.org provides a look at how agriculture has contributed to long-term trends in the region, including negligible population growth, increases in…
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When we talk about climate change, most often we are talking about the changes in temperature, cloud cover and rainfall that are occurring due to increases in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases across the globe. But climate also changes locally, and many of these local changes are due to other human causes such as…
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In 1996-97 I worked as an intern for National Public Radio’s Science Friday. I think it is one of the best (and only) major radio coverage of science on the air. This week they offered a long discussion with Andrew Revkin on four billion years of weather and climate based on his new book, Weather:…
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According to New Atlas, the Chinese satellite TanSat has provided the first global maps of carbon dioxide. In the article, it shows maps from two months, April and July 2017. This satellite view will allow scientists to study changes in carbon dioxide across the earth depending on the season as well as highlight local maximums…
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There has been a wealth of stories related to climate and/or agriculture in the past few weeks. Here are a few that have caught my eye. I hope you will find one or more useful to you. Bloomberg Businessweek: The Fighting Has Begun Over Who Owns Land Drowned by Climate Change New Haven Register: One…
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Recent research on tropical storms and how they might develop and grow in a warmer climate shows that it is quite likely that in the future, tropical storms and hurricanes will be larger than they have been in the past. This is due to a combination of warmer water, which provides energy to the systems,…
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With sea levels rising around the world due to thermal expansion of ocean water and melting of polar ice, you might expect the sea level to be rising equally everywhere, since all the oceans are connected. However, there are local areas where sea level is rising faster than others due to effects of land movement,…