Climate and Ag in the news
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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…
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When farmers are looking for feed for their cattle due to drought or other shortages, they use a variety of products to supplement their feed. I was interested to read this story about a spilled truck full of red Skittles that was on its way to be ground up and used as a cattle feed…
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GOES 16, formerly known as GOES R, has sent its first pictures back from space, and they are great! This is the first in a series of new and better geostationary satellites that will be helping NOAA to monitor and predict weather, including severe weather outbreaks. You can see the pictures and read more about…