Climate and Ag in the news
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As temperatures get warmer, scientists expect that there may be impacts on soil health. To look at that, some Australian scientists tried to determine how warmer temperatures would affect soil carbon, a measure of oil health. They looked at 12 different model simulations and found that while most of them predicted a decrease in soil…
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The National Centers for Environmental Information produced a summary of all of the billion dollar weather disasters that have affected the US in 2016, including Hurricane Matthew and the forest fires in the Southeast this year. You can read about all of the other disasters that happened this year at https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/billions/.
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USA Today reported earlier this week that a new study of 500-year-old clams published in Nature Communications shows that the oceans are experiencing changes in ocean chemistry that have not occurred in the last 1000 years. The clam shells have growth rings similar to tree rings that can be related to climate conditions in specific…
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With less than a week to go until Inauguration Day on January 20, you might be interested in this look back at the weather on some previous Inauguration Days by Tom Moore of iWeatherNet.com. You can read it at https://www.iweathernet.com/dallas-fort-worth/inauguration-day-weather-highlights-from-the-past. This year’s event is likely to be one of the warmest on record if the current…
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NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has a couple of graphics showing changes in the frost-free regions of the US for March and April. The graphics clearly show the expansion of frost-free areas in the Midwest and Great Lakes during those months, although they have more limited value for us in the Southeast. It would have been…
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In previous blog posts I have noted the unprecedented decay of sea ice over the last few years and showed a graph which indicated a rapid decline of global (combined Arctic and Antarctic) sea ice this year. Here’s an update of the chart (most recent year in red). Note that the trend towards unbelievably low…
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NOAA released their January 2017 update for ENSO (the oscillation that is the combination of El Niño and La Niña) this week. It shows that weak La Niña conditions still remain in the eastern Pacific, but that they are expected to go back to neutral conditions within two months. Even though it will be technically…