Climate and Ag in the news
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Today marks the beginning of the Civil War (I grew up in the North, y’all) 155 years ago with the attack on Fort Sumter. The Southeastern Regional Climate Center noted the occasion with an image from the fort’s weather log. It lists “Rain most of the day & Bombardment of Ft. Sumter” in their daily entry.
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CLN Webinar: Climate Change and Insects in Wheat Systems April 14th, 2016 at 2:00pm EDT The Climate Learning Network presents a webinar featuring Dr. Sanford Eigenbrode, Principal Investigator of the USDA sponsored Regional Approaches to Climate Change – Pacific Northwest Agriculture (REACCH) Coordinated Agricultural Project. Dr. Eigenbrode will present new discoveries and adaptation techniques for…
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Marshall Shepherd posted an interesting blog at Forbes.com on common posts that climatologists see all the time on Facebook and other social media about global warming. You’ve probably seen some of them too. Unfortunately, when someone claims that having a snowstorm disproves global warming or other such myth, they are really just displaying their ignorance of…
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If you are looking for information on recent severe weather in Georgia, here are a couple of articles that describe some of the conditions we have felt this month so far along with a tool for showing severe weather reports on an interactive map. I’ve also included a link to a NOAA retrospective on the…
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Following the devastating tsunami which hit northern Japan in 2011 following a massive earthquake, a large area of land was covered by salt water, which deposited the salt behind, making it difficult for anything to grow. Scientists identified varieties of rice which were more tolerant of the salty soil and used those to develop a…
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Continuing our look at droughts around the globe, NASA posted a story last month about the drought in the eastern Mediterranean based on some recent research that was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. The research showed that based on climate data and tree ring analysis from the region, which includes Israel, Syria,…
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The first week of April 2016 has been much wetter than normal for a significant part of Georgia and surrounding areas. Temperatures have been above normal in southern parts of the Southeast. Colder temperatures for the next two weeks should help bring the temperature closer to normal, although things may warm up at the end…