Climate and Ag in the news
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The University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment issued a new map showing global emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane due to crop and food production this week. According to the map, much of the inland Southeast is relatively low in GHG emissions. Florida and the coastal plains, however, put off…
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The Southeast Farm Press posted a story today about the negative impacts of the exceptional Southeast drought on the timber industry in Alabama (although the comments are generally true for the rest of the Southeast as well). It points out that the drought and fires will have take a severe toll on forests this year…
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While the official hurricane season is almost over, it’s not too late for a tropical storm to develop. And today we have TS Otto in the Caribbean Sea, a newly formed storm which may become a hurricane before it makes landfall straight west in Central America. You can read more about it at Weather Underground…
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While severe drought is affecting a lot of the Southeast, areas in Florida and South Carolina that got rain from the tropical storms this year are generally doing well, although yields have been reduced in some places. The Packer noted here the pepper and green bean season may start low but that things should improve…
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Miami is one of the most vulnerable cities in the US to the effects of rising sea level, which is caused by a combination of warming ocean waters and melting land ice from Greenland, Antarctica and mountain glaciers. One response that beachside communities do to maintain their waterfronts is to do beach replenishment by pumping…
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NOAA released their latest global climate summary yesterday, and it shows that for the globe, October tied for the third warmest on record with 2003, following the record warmth of October 2015 when El Niño was strengthening. For the year to date, this year continues to be the warmest on record for the Earth as…
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On Saturday November 19, NOAA is planning to launch a new satellite into space. This satellite, known as GOES-R, will be the most advanced weather satellite ever developed. The GOES satellites orbit the earth 22,000 miles above the earth’s surface so they can remain directly over the same spot as the Earth rotates around its…