Plan G is a new initiative by television station 11 Alive in Atlanta to talk about how Georgians are reacting to changes in the climate that they see all around them. Here is a great 20-minute video showing people from around the state with various thoughts about climate change and…
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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birthday of Eunice Foote, one of the first scientists to study climate science and start to understand how carbon dioxide can affect earth’s atmosphere. My colleague Dr. Marshall Shepherd wrote a blog post about Foote in today’s Forbes.com. In the article he says:…
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The Conversation had an interesting article this week looking at how yields of different crops are changing as the climate is getting warmer. Over the globe, yields are decreasing under warmer conditions, but it varies from place to place. Regions that are farther north are benefiting from the warmer conditions…
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A recent story making the rounds online tries to pair cities by taking one city (for example London) and looking at its projected 2050 temperature to find another city with a current climate that matches what London’s is expected to be according to climate projections. The city London was paired…
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NOAA’s Climate blog posted a story earlier this week on the increase that has been seen in the US (and elsewhere) in heavy precipitation events. As warmer temperatures allow more moisture to evaporate into the air, it becomes “juicier” and more likely to produce heavy rain in downpours. This trend…
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From 2012 to 2018 I worked as a grant-funded agricultural climatologist on USDA-funded projects looking at the impacts of the changing climate on agriculture in the Southeast. There are a lot of negative impacts that are expected in the future due to warmer temperatures (especially nighttime temperatures), higher humidity, and…
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Have you ever been told that climate projections of the future are bad and they are not worth looking at? I’ve heard that many times. You might wonder how they know. My husband John Knox of the UGA Geography Department recently looked at a couple of the older climate predictions…
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