Climate and Ag in the news
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Food and Wine reported this week on a new study by Harvard’s School of Public Health which looked at the nutritional content of crops eaten around the world under higher concentrations of carbon dioxide, which is increasing in the atmosphere. The study showed that as carbon dioxide continues to increase, the nutritional content of many…
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The National Environmental Education Foundation published a short report this week on how changes in climate could affect agriculture in the future. While carbon dioxide is necessary for plants to grow and increased carbon dioxide does increase the growth of plants (both beneficial crops and weeds), it also can affect the length of the growing…
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For those of you who like to look at weather that is more than just local, here is a story about some Spanish meteorologists who are providing information on current Mars weather conditions. While they don’t do it every day, they are allowing us on Earth to learn more about the Martian atmosphere from the…
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Here’s an interesting story from the Capital Weather Gang on Ronald Reagan’s near-disastrous Air Force One landing at Andrews AFB on August 1, 1983. A microburst hit the airport with winds of up to 149 mph just six minutes after Reagan’s plane landed. Microbursts, which once were considered to be fictitious, have been known to…
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Phys.org published an article earlier this month on a new study of the Amazon rain forest which shows observationally that the end of the dry season there is triggered by water vapor emanating from the trees there. According to the article, until now scientists have not been able to determine why the rainy season begins…
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Most climatologists attribute the discovery of the greenhouse effect caused by absorption of terrestrial energy by carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” to Irish physicist John Tyndall in 1859 and the following years. According to a story in Climate Change News, “A recently digitized copy of The American Journal of Science and Arts suggests a woman…
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Did you know that one of the world’s major repositories of climate data is located here in the Southeast in Asheville NC? Of course you did, if you read this blog regularly. The two other main ones are in Hamburg, Germany, and Obninsk, Russia, but there are several other smaller ones as well. Here’s a…