Climate science
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NOAA’s climate blog has a new entry which provides an excellent description of the difference between short-term weather and long-term climate. In addition to the analogies in this blog, I also like the comparison between a baseball player’s batting average (climate) and his actual performance in one trip to the plate. You can read the…
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You may have heard folks claim that climate scientists are just pushing a climate change agenda because they are making a lot of money doing it. How do you respond? I thought this description by Katherine Hayhoe did a good job of explaining how money for climate grants is split between universities and researchers. “Climate…
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NASA has a new online post which describes how trees are able to capture climate information in their annual growth rings. This information, called paleodata or proxy data, allows us to look back farther in time than using just instrumental records. You can use not only living trees but also trees from the past that…
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My heart goes out to the folks around the Southeast that have been hit by severe weather the past few days and the families that have lost loved ones. While the threat of the worst weather is mostly over, sooner or later another round will come. Here is an article from US Tornadoes which describes…
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AgWeb reprinted a story from Bloomberg News this week describing some troubling results of a study by researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the University of Chicago. The study shows that with the warmer temperatures expected from global warming, yields of corn and soybeans could drop significantly. According to the article,…
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What’s your favorite kind of weather? What temperatures do you like best? While there is likely to be a range of values in your group of friends, scientists generally define “mild” weather as temperatures between 64 and 86 degrees F, with less than a half inch of rain and dew points below 68 degrees F, indicative…
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Those of us who watch the tropics for signs of El Niño or La Niña have noted that the recent weak La Niña seems to be dissipating pretty quickly. What will come next? Some of the models that have just come out are predicting a return to El Niño, and this set social media abuzz.…