Here is an interesting column published this week in AgWeb which discusses how this year’s crazy weather will impact farmers and their management choices in future years. Farmers will no longer be able to just do “business as usual” as far as planning for planting goes, and will need to…
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The Cloud Appreciation Society (https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/)is one of my favorite sites for viewing spectacular images of clouds. Here is a great story from Reuters about the society and how our views of clouds are changing our views of how the climate is changing. Clouds are one of the most important and…
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Plan G is a new initiative by television station 11 Alive in Atlanta to talk about how Georgians are reacting to changes in the climate that they see all around them. Here is a great 20-minute video showing people from around the state with various thoughts about climate change and…
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While I hope that it’s a long time before another weather (or other) disaster hits anyone in the Southeast, any good steward knows that it is important to be prepared just in case. Here is a good short article which describes some of the steps you can take to make…
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Drought affects trees on many different time scales. In the Southeast, we grow a lot of trees in controlled conditions for timber. The timber is managed by planting, thinning, and harvesting. Until recently, there have been very few studies done on the impacts of management techniques like thinning on the…
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Just in time for the latest heat way, the Midwestern Regional Climate Center announced a new interactive heat index map for the US which shows the average number of hours with the heat index above several thresholds. This is available for the first order weather stations at the larger airports….
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Eunice Foote, one of the first scientists to study climate science and start to understand how carbon dioxide can affect earth’s atmosphere. My colleague Dr. Marshall Shepherd wrote a blog post about Foote in today’s Forbes.com. In the article he says:…
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