Climate science
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Spring is officially over (climatologically speaking) and now we look forward to summer. I often get asked whether a hot spring means a hot summer, or some other permutation of that question. Often, there is no correlation between seasons. However, in the latest “Beyond the Data” blog entry from Climate.gov, Deke Arndt discusses the impact of a…
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Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer for most people, and the folks at NEEF (National Environmental Education Foundation) have put together a couple of articles describing the impact of summer weather conditions on human health. The first article describes the impact of extreme heat on human health and lists some of the symptoms…
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Don Paul is a recently retired television meteorologist from Buffalo, NY, who is starting a series of articles on weather, climate and related sciences. His first article is on humidity in the atmosphere and dewpoint temperature. You can find it at the Buffalo News here.
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The Climate Learning Network recently hosted an hour-long webinar by Dr. Marshall Shepherd of UGA on the basics of climate change science. It is now available on demand for viewing at https://www.climatewebinars.net/webinars/climate-change-science-101-for-land-grant-university-administrators/?searchterm=shepherd. I haven’t watched it yet myself, but Dr. Shepherd is usually an engaging speaker who brings in a lot of current information at an…
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Another climate story related to the Arctic this week is the record-setting low extent of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean for this time of year. Bob Henson of WunderBlog explains what has been observed this year and what it means for this summer here. The abnormally low snow cover which contributed to warm…
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Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environmental Information has a new blog post in the “Beyond the Data” blog describing some of the problems with describing the climate of Alaska and what they have seen so far. Alaska is warming far faster than other parts of the US, and especially faster than the Southeast,…
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A new study that was published recently in Geophysical Research Letters shows that “Emissions from farms outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in much of the United States, Europe, Russia and China, according to new research. The culprit: fumes from nitrogen-rich fertilizers and animal waste combine in the air with combustion emissions…