Climate science
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Do you like to listen to podcasts or online audio programs when you work or play? I am not a big user of podcasts, but I know many people who do. Here are a couple that I have listened to lately that you might enjoy. How Does Climate Change Impact Summer Weather? Features Dr. Chip…
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In addition to my frequent posts on this blog (over 6,000 since it started in 2014!), I also post once a month on The Garden Professors blog, which tackles questions about the science of gardening. Most of the articles (written by better plant scientists than me) are about mulching with arborist chips and whether using…
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I frequently hear people who don’t know much about meteorology comment on weather-related phenomena and get things wrong. Dr. Shepherd of UGA’s Atmospheric Sciences also hears these kinds of comments and wrote up his 2021 list of the top ten weather and climate misconceptions. You can read them at Forbes here.
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Earlier this week the EarthSky blog posted a good introduction to sea level rise, including what causes it and how much we are likely to see in the future. It also includes a good video on sea level rise basics from NASA Earth Observatory. You might be interested in learning more about this, especially if…
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A new report commissioned by the Farm Journal Foundation discussed how agriculture is affected by changing climate and how it is uniquely situated to help us cut greenhouse gas emissions and fight the changes in climate we are already seeing. It discusses what changes we are seeing in emissions over time and how the warming…
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In this blog I tend to focus on the relationship between the phase of ENSO (El Nino or La Nina or neutral) and what climate conditions are likely to happen here in the Southeast as well as how those conditions will affect our crops. But ENSO actually affects weather across the whole globe, so if…
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Coastal areas of the Southeast as well as most of the rest of the world have seen increased flooding in recent years due to slowly rising sea levels, which are driven by a combination of warmer oceans and melting land ice. While a lot of this flooding has been more of a nuisance than dangerous…