Climate and Ag in the news
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2016 is done but the stories about the year in climate are coming out thick and fast. Here are a few I saw that are particularly interesting. The Capital Weather Gang discusses global weather disasters here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/01/03/extreme-weather-killed-thousands-and-cost-billions-across-the-globe-in-2016/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1 Dan Satterfield of the American Geophysical Union posted about the astonishing warmth in the Arctic and Antarctic at https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2017/01/03/2016-ends-astonishing-warmth-gloomy-news-antarctica/. USA…
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Do you love luscious lobsters? If so, you might be interested in this NOAA story on how the location of lobster fishing is changing over time. This is due to changes in water temperature which affects the growth of the tasty crustaceans. You can see the animation of where the critters have been caught over…
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Recent research in Science Advances by University of California-Berkeley has confirmed what NOAA scientists reported in 2015: there was no pause in global warming during the period when most media skeptics were talking about the end of the warming curve. The scientists looked at methods for correcting climate data to account for changes in instrumentation,…
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The Packer reported this week that Florida strawberries are doing much better than a year ago, when extremely high temperatures hurt production levels. This year, while still warm, is closer to normal values, and the strawberries are producing much better. Market prices are still being hurt by competition from Mexico and California, however, so farmers…
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I saw this article posted on Facebook by a friend earlier this week. You might enjoy it. Be sure to read it all the way to the end and then back again. The cleverly-written article was written by Michael Liebrich and is entitled “It’s a new year and time to face reality“. I’m reproducing this…
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In view of the chance of snow or ice in parts of the Southeast this weekend, the Weather Channel has posted a story describing what you need to get snow or ice in the Southeast and why it’s so hard to predict. Snow in most of the Southeast (except for Florida and immediately along the…
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Many of you know that one factor that may have affected the recent presidential election is the number of fake news stories that were sent out via social media like Facebook. This week has been an example of a related issue, fake weather news. My Facebook feed has been buzzing the last few days about…