Climate and Ag in the news
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Do you like brussel sprouts? I am not a big fan, but if you like these tender green morsels, you will be disappointed to read this article by UGA’s Clint Thompson in Growing Georgia. The article explains that Georgia’s hot climate makes it hard to grow the cold-tolerant crop due to the length of the…
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The NWS Southeast River Forecast Center has released their latest outlook for water conditions in the Southeast for the coming months. It contains information about the 2016 rainfall, the current drought and the status of La Niña as well as an outlook for spring flooding. You can view it on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4DnfTo2hqk&feature=youtu.be.
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CBS News has a report and video describing changes that are expected to occur in sea level rise across the US in the next few decades under global warming. The mildest case is for a foot of sea level rise, while more severe scenarios show as much as 8 feet of rise in some locations.…
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You may have heard arguments from time to time that in the 1960s scientists were talking about the coming Ice Age and cooling and not global warming. While it is true that one magazine article during that period noted that we are headed into the next Ice Age in the next 10,000 years or so,…
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Weather Underground reported today that the death toll from this week’s tornado outbreak (19 so far) was the highest for January since 1969 and has already surpassed the total number of deaths for the entire year of 2016 across the US. Since peak tornado season is still a couple of months away, that toll is…
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The Pine Integrated Network: Education, Mitigation, and Adaptation project, better known as PINEMAP, began in 2012 when Tim Martin, professor of tree physiology at the University of Florida, along with representatives from 11 southeastern land-grant universities and a host of other research cooperatives, proposed a five-year research project to determine how changes to climate could…
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The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences announced the development of a new app-based tool to help tell farmers when severe weather might impact their crops. According to an article in the Southeast Farm Press, the tool will inform farmers about the potential for extreme weather such as severe heat or dry spells…