Climate and Ag in the news
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Estimating the costs of the trends to a warmer climate which we have seen since the 1970’s is difficult because there are so many factors involved in how a warmer climate might affect things like agriculture, energy production, etc. And of course they are moving targets because people can and do adapt to these changes…
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The CoCoRaHS monitoring network (that’s Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow network) has a new kind of data that you can provide to help farmers, water managers, government agencies, and others keep track of your local conditions, even where there is no good weather station data available. The data they are collecting is called “Condition…
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While the tropics have quieted down quite a bit from their earlier spate of activity, it’s important to remember that the official end of the Atlantic tropical season is November 30, and that we still have almost a month to go before it ends (and some storms have occurred outside the regular season, for that…
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I’ve seen an interesting story this week in a couple of news outlets describing a recent study which linked volcanic eruptions at high latitudes to the flood climatology of the Nile and also to uprisings in Egypt during the reign of Cleopatra. Using ice corp data and climate modeling, scientists were able to link low…
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In talks I have given and in conversations with other scientists, I’ve discussed the likelihood that future wars may be fought not over property or other causes but over water. In the Southeast, we’ve seen lawsuits over who has the right to use water and who decides how much (which I won’t get into because…
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Business Insider had an interesting story earlier this year about how domestication changed five different popular foods from something barely recognizable to something delicious. Check it out and see what your favorite food looked like before scientists and farmers worked their magic at https://www.businessinsider.com/common-foods-before-and-after-domestication-2016-2.
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The latest damage estimates to Florida citrus show a higher impact on citrus production than originally thought. Market Intel reported this week that production of citrus there is the lowest in 70 years, due to a combination of lower consumer demand, citrus greening, and the significant impacts of Hurricane Irma. In fact, as more fruit…