Climate and Ag in the news
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The Modern Farmer published an article this week on the growth of farming at high latitudes (https://modernfarmer.com/2013/10/arctic-farming/). The article lists several reasons for increasing agriculture in a challenging place, including changing diets of indigenous people, increased demand for local foods, and increases in temperature under a changing climate that is increasing the length of the…
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Yahoo News published a story this week on new estimates of global sea level rise based on a paper published yesterday in Nature. The new research shows that since 1990 sea levels are rising 2.5 times faster than in the time period 1900-1990. This is a concern to people living along coastlines because assuming that…
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NOAA’s Climate.gov web site now has a good list of answers to frequently asked questions about global warming and climate change. You can find it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/global-warming-frequently-asked-questions.
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Dr. Jeff Masters is one of the best weather bloggers in the country. He has just provided a great summary of the 2014 year across the United States, written by special guest blogger Bob Hanson. You will enjoy reading about the crazy weather across the US by clicking here.
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Usually when I think of climate and agriculture I think of how climate and weather affect crop growth. But AgWeb posted a story this week that turns the usual order on its head. They reported (link) that the Iowa Department of Transportation is paying about 70 farmers to keep several rows of corn next to…
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An article by from scientists from the Southeast Climate Consortium (which helps support this blog) in Nature shows that rising temperatures around the globe have warming are “already slowing yield gains at a majority of wheat-growing locations. Global wheat production is estimated to fall by 6% for each °C of further temperature increase and become…
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I ran across this article about the debate between GMO science and public safety in a blog entry today at the Genetic Literacy Project. Here is the link: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/12/is-it-possible-to-have-a-civil-debate-about-gmos-and-safety-probably-not/. The blog writer points out a variety of issues that keep people from taking scientific results seriously, even in the face of a lot of scientific…
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