Climate and Ag in the news
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Allison Floyd of Growing Georgia interviewed Dr. John Christy, the Alabama State Climatologist, yesterday to talk about the so-called “dog days” of summer. If you’ve ever heard that term, you might be interested in what that phrase means. You can read about it here.
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This week’s Beyond the Data blog from NOAA provides some insight into how the annual report on the State of the Climate gets put together. Over 400 experts on climate around the world work together to ensure that it is a complete and accurate description of the past year’s climate, which results in a report…
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The Washington Post has an interesting infographic on where energy comes from in each of the 50 states. You can find it at https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/power-plants/ with breakdowns by individual sources.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had a long and detailed article in yesterday’s paper on Georgia’s agriculture, including the variety of crops grown and changes that are expected in the coming years due to market demands, water shortages in California and elsewhere, and changes in recent climate. You can read the article at https://specialprojects.myajc.com/georgia-farm-change/.
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Quartz magazine online published an article recently describing challenges to food and water safety in the future if climate continues to get warmer. Both water-borne diseases and microbial and chemical toxins in food are expected to increase under those conditions. For example, aflatoxins are expected to increase in warmer weather. Aflatoxin is “a mycotoxin common in…
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Earlier this week I posted a blog entry noting the large number of forest fires in the Pacific Northwest. Numerous articles noted that the number is far above the long-term average. However, Cliff Mass of the University of Washington has a slightly different take on it. In a blog posting today, he notes that while…
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The National Hurricane Center is issuing an advisory on a small circulation in the Gulf of Mexico over the panhandle of Florida. While the chance of development into a tropical system in the next 48 hours is small at 10%, it could still bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to the area near the…
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