Climate science
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If you are wondering how to explain El Niño to your kids (or your grandmother), you might enjoy this video from PBS Digital Studios on El Niño and chaos in the atmosphere at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qPibjwo21g.
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Deke Arndt of the National Centers for Environment Information posted another informative (and funny) blog on first snow dates in NOAA’s Climate.gov blog, Beyond the Data. You can read it at https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/beyond-data/first-dates. In the Southeast, it is difficult to do good scientific studies of snowfall because the data are not very complete. Snow does not fall…
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According to a recent news story in CBS News, a new study published in Environmental Research Letters projects that the onset of spring plant growth will shift up by an average of three weeks by the year 2100 due to climate change trends. The trend to warmer temperatures are expected to shift the dates of first…
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The online course on animal agriculture and climate change that was produced by one of our supporting grants is now available for free as a self-study course at the link below: https://www.extension.org/pages/73079/climate-change-and-animal-agriculture-self-study-topics#.VikF7NKrS71 You can learn more about the course at https://animalagclimatechange.org/free-online-course/. Each module can be taken individually. The list of topics covered is below. WEATHER…
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Walter Reeves, the “Georgia Gardener”, has some information on plant hardiness zones and how to choose appropriate plants that Georgia gardeners may find useful as we go into the fall season and look forward to next spring. You can find it at https://www.walterreeves.com/gardening-q-and-a/hardiness-zones-for-georgia/. Happy planting!
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What do we expect this coming winter now that the strong El Niño is here? Mike Halpert of NOAA discusses the likely conditions across the US in the Climate.gov blog post here and shows the variation of previous El Niño winters from strong to weak years. Even in the strong years, there is still quite…
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I ran across this useful website from Koshland Science Museum on the basics of climate science and modeling. It has an excellent short video on how climate models work. If you have wondered how climate models are used to make projections of future climate, you might find it helpful. It is at https://www.koshland-science-museum.org/explore-the-science/earth-lab/modeling. The website also…
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