Climate and Ag in the news
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It’s a little early to talk about suggestions for holiday presents, but I got this list of climate fiction books from Outside magazine in my email today and thought I would jump in. With supply issues likely to be a problem as we get closer to Christmas, you might want to get a headstart on…
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Here is another weather-related lesson plan, this one for younger grades from NASA. In it, the students design and build their own rain gauges to measure daily rainfall. This teaches them about engineering skills as well as a better understanding of how to measure rain. You can view more information and download a teachers’ guide…
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Reuters posted a story this week on how one vineyard owner in France is increasing his income and improving his wines by putting solar panels above his grapevines. The solar panels produce energy that can be used or sold. The panels provide shade to the vines to help keep them cooler in warming weather. The…
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(UPDATE: New map as of 10:30 pm) I’ve been getting a few questions about how quiet the tropics are right now and whether we are done with the tropical season for this year. Here is the answer from Bryan Norcross, a television meteorologist from Miami with many years of experience in tropical weather. I follow…
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Did you know that excess heat costs the US dairy industry about $900 million per year? In this video from Yale Climate Connections, I learned that cows in Texas give a lot more milk in winter when the weather is cool than in summer, when heat is an issue. The dairy farmer in this video…
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Today is an exciting day for climatologists everywhere, because a climatologist has won the Nobel Prize in physics, along with two other scientists that study complex natural systems. You might not think that was very exciting, but that’s because you don’t know the history of how meteorologists and atmospheric scientists were blocked from getting Nobel…
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Climate scientists are constantly analyzing data and looking at results of computer modeling to better understand how the earth’s atmosphere/ocean system works. Even though it may seem like they are changing their minds, they are really updating their understanding when they see new information in the data they are studying. That is what science is.…