Climate and Ag in the news
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The Atlantic magazine posted an interesting article this week about the migration of trees from one region to another. Of course the trees don’t actually pick up their roots and walk away, but over time some areas see a decline in saplings while other areas see new growth. What surprised the scientists quoted in the…
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The Miami Herald-Tribune noted this week that “Following last year’s hurricane season, which broke Florida’s nearly 11-year streak without a hurricane making landfall here, a number of new warnings are being unveiled by the National Hurricane Center to better notify those in a storm’s path, the organization’s acting director said Wednesday at the annual Governor’s…
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The World Meteorological Organization recently published a list of the world’s deadliest storms. None of these storms has occurred since 1994, which means that weather services around the world are likely improving their ability to predict and warn for these storms. In addition, vulnerability of people in the most susceptible areas has been reduced by…
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the adverse effects of the dry conditions in parts of Florida on vegetable production there. The warm winter allowed whiteflies and other pests to overwinter and they are now causing a tremendous challenge for tomato farmers. You can read the story at https://vscnews.com/southwest-florida-struggles-whiteflies-drought/.
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The Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted a story this week about the development of tea as a new specialty crop in the Southeast. Of course there have been some tea plantations in the South in the past, but a Florida researcher is looking into adding tea to the bouquet of specialty crops growing in…
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Have you ever heard the comment that in the 1970s climate scientists were talking about global cooling? I get this statement frequently when I give talks to the public. And yet, this was proven false a decade ago. This article from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (which popped up in my Facebook feed…
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WSB-TV produced a story earlier this week noting that this year the first reported poisonous snakebite of the year happened in the first week of January, which was a record according to Dr. Gaylord Lopez of the Georgia Poison Control Center. He attributed the large number of calls so early in the year to the lack…
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