Climate and Ag in the news
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Don Paul, a television meteorologist from Buffalo NY that I follow on Facebook, has an excellent description of why sea levels are rising and the consequences of both rising sea levels and subsidence of land on coastal cities and ecosystems. You can read it at https://buffalonews.com/2017/02/03/don-paul-ominous-duo-rising-seas-sinking-land/.
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The latest Southern Regional Extension Forestry newsletter has been released, and it provides information on a number of opportunities for forest-related webinars, grants and some new experts that are available to help with forestry issues around the region. There’s also a new snake identification website which is discussed in the newsletter. You can read it…
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Today is Groundhog Day (or Candlemas Day, depending on which calendar you use). News outlets across the US are reporting on whether we are going to have six more weeks of winter or if spring will come early based on the shadow of a marmot. All while the flowering plum trees here in Athens in…
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Yale Climate Connections had an interesting story this week on O’Hare Airport and its vegetable garden. The airport grows 44 different varieties of edible plants, which are used in some of the airport restaurants. I have not been through O’Hare in some time but the next time I am there you can be sure I…
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In the last five years I have spent much of my time talking about climate to extension agents and agricultural producers. I have learned so much from them about agricultural production and the decisions farmers need to make in their daily work scheduling as well as their long-term planning. Weather and climate are always on their…
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The US Geological Survey has an interesting story about the utility of Florida corals to track long-term variations in regional climate. Similar to tree rings, coral growth patterns can be used as proxy data to study changes in ocean temperature over time. These patterns show that there are multi-decade oscillations in sea surface temperature that…
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My friend John Feldt of Blue Water Outlook has an interesting post (shown below) discussing the severity of the winter this year using the AWSSI index. He explains it below and provides a link to the Midwestern Regional Climate Center’s web page describing winter severity across the US. You can go to the MRCC’s page…