Climate science
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In the news today I heard that the FDA is recommending that we test all blood donations for the Zika virus, which is carried by mosquitoes and can cause severe birth defects in babies if the mother gets infected during pregnancy. Zika is just one of several severe diseases that is carried by mosquitoes in…
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The use of small multiple images is one that allows you to look at changes in the individual images differently since the format of each image is the same. I love this collection of small multiples of global temperature because not only does it show changes in temperature over time (see how warm the earth…
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The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced that fact sheets for each state describing how climate change is affect that state are now available. You can see the list and download them at https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts/state-impact-factsheets.html.
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NOAA announced that they have new and expanded tables of normal temperature and precipitation values now available on their web site. Typically, climatologists consider 30 year averages to be “normal” climate conditions, and they are updated every ten years. The current 30-year normal period is 1981-2010. But some groups like utilities want normals over different…
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While sea ice in Antarctica has seen some increases in recent years (although small compared to the losses of sea ice in the Arctic, which is losing ice at about ten times the rate that Antarctica is gaining it), the Larsen C ice shelf in western Antarctica has seen some troubling trends in recent years.…
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Here are a list of a few online and in-person courses that I have seen listed in recent weeks. The Warnell School of Forestry at UGA is offering an in-person course on “Managing Forest Health, Wildlife and Productivity” on October 4-5 in Athens, GA. Course content will center on landscape-scale forest health issues related to…
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While the number of tornadoes and tornado days has been decreasing in the historical “Tornado Alley” in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska in recent years, in so-called “Dixie Alley” in the Southeast tornado occurrences have been increasing, according to a new study published in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology. Researcher compared tornadoes in…