Climate science
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The North Central Region Water Network has a recording of a recent webinar on wind energy and its impact on rural communities available on YouTube. While this webinar is focused on Michigan, it has good lessons for rural communities in other parts of the country as well. The Southeast is not a big producer of…
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If you’ve ever wondered how the global average temperature is calculated, especially considering that we don’t have surface temperature observations at many point on the globe (especially the poles), then this article is for you. The Climate Lab Book blog from the U. K., provides an excellent scientific overview of how a global mean temperature…
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Scientists for the past 100 or more years have known that the climate is changing due to the addition of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Basic physics tells us that if you add more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, things are going to warm up. And we know that most (but not all) of the…
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The South Central Climate Science Center is offering online classes this fall on climate science and how to manage for changing climate. The information is below. The first class starts on August 27 so sign up soon if you are interested. Other classes will start later this fall. Managing for a Changing Climate Fall Courses…
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Here is an interesting NOAA video which shows the change in carbon dioxide over time on Earth for two spots, Mauna Loa and the South Pole. Then it goes back further in time using data from ice cores all the way back to 800,000 years ago. Be sure to watch all the way to the…
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If you are interested in climate science and how climatologists view climate change, you might be interested in this video series called “Global Weirding” by Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University. In the series, which releases a new video every two weeks, Dr. Hayhoe explains the science behind global warming and addresses many myths about…
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This week’s question from the Georgia Climate Project’s Roadmap deals with the impacts of our transportation system on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Transportation is a big input to these emissions and how our regional and local methods of moving goods and people around evolve in the future will affect how much…