Climate and Ag in the news
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Twenty years ago this weekend, central Georgia experienced the massive flooding from Tropical Storm Alberto. The current 24 hour rainfall record for Georgia, 21.10 inches, fell in Americus on July 6, 1994 during the storm. The extreme rainfall caused tremendous devastation in Macon, Montezuma, Albany and other areas in central and southwest Georgia. Here are…
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A recent article in the Farm Journal discusses how increases in severe weather as well as changes in climate are forcing farmers to consider new approaches to farming, including increased water storage, crop rotations, and new seed varieties. Farmers are realizing they need to adapt to higher temperatures, more variable rainfalls, and heavier storm intensities…
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If you’ve noticed hazy skies today, they are not due to the usual summer humidity, but instead are due to a cloud of dust blowing off the Sahara desert. You can see the story from 11Alive by clicking here.
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In the last day or so the area of tropical disturbance that meteorologists were watching has developed into Tropical Storm Arthur, the first tropical storm of the 2014 season. Arthur is expected to start moving towards the northeast and may reach hurricane status before its expected landfall in eastern North Carolina. The biggest threat for…
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A recent study of perceptions of climate change was undertaken in Kansas to learn what agricultural producers thought about climate change. The results are published here in the Journal of Extension. Based on focus group discussions at several locations in Kansas, most producers are worried about the potential impacts of climate change and are working to…
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A new bipartisan report entitled “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States” was just released and is getting a lot of attention in the media. This report describes some of the economic impacts of increased warming, rising sea levels, and increasing variability on agricultural producers, coastal communities, and others in…
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The Washington Post published an article this week which explained why people differ in their interpretations of climate data trends. Trends are highly biased by which time period you pick to calculate the trend, and this article explains why we can have both a short-term cooling or hiatus in warming trends at the same time…