Climate and Ag in the news
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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…
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Vegetable and Specialty Crop News posted an interesting story this week about the benefit of growing spinach and other crops in high tunnels in Florida and other areas of the Southeast. The advantage to using high tunnels with hydroponic systems inside instead of open fields is that they are able to reduce the negative impacts…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center is featured in this story from The Weather Channel on 2016 climate statistics for cities around the US. A number of Southeast cities are included in the list for warmest and driest cities, and Naples FL is listed on the list of coolest (lowest temperature anomaly, not raw temperature) cities.…
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This week’s New Yorker magazine has a fascinating story about farming in urban areas without soil or natural light. The Newark farm in the story, AeroFarms, built a 12-layer crop production building on the grounds of an old steel warehouse and produces a variety of greens that they sell in New York City and elsewhere…
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On Christmas Eve in 1968, the Apollo astronauts photographed the rise of the Earth over the moon in one of the most frequently used photos of all time, accompanied by a reading from the Book of Genesis. Today you can remember that along with more recent photos and videos of Earth rise and set from…
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