Climate science
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Purdue University has just released a new report which describes the impacts of changing climate on agriculture in Indiana, which like much of the Southeast is heavily invested in growing crops and livestock for food and other uses. While climate changes in the Southeast have been more subtle than those in Indiana and the Corn…
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You’ve probably seen coverage in the news of the wildfires that are raging across many of the western states. The fires are so large that they can create their own local wind and weather patterns tied to the rising of hot air in the middle of the fires. That can lead to the creation of…
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This week’s question from the Georgia Climate Project Roadmap is on food security. Making sure Georgia citizens have access to good, healthy and reasonably priced food is a major concern in times of increased extreme weather, including both floods and droughts. Scientists need to know how these weather extremes will impact supply chains, prices, and…
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AgWeb posted a story this week on the results of a new study by University of Colorado scientists which looked at whether people of different political parties agreed or differed in their beliefs on global warming. They found that “Sixty-six percent of Republicans, 74 percent of Independents, and 90 percent of Democrats said they believed…
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As you know, there is a lot of variability in climate from one year to the next and even sometimes from one month to the next. How do you know if recent extremes in temperature, precipitation or other climate variables are just a manifestation of that natural variability or if they are a sign of…
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If you are an agricultural producer or an extension agent, chances are you spend a lot of time outside, especially during the growing season. You know what it’s like to work through extreme heat and humidity, and hopefully you have included time in your schedule to cool off and hydrate. For people who work outside…
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Since the 1960s, temperatures across the Southeast and the entire world have been increasing, although there is a lot of year-to-year variability which is the bane of farmers everywhere. For the Southeast, a temperature increase of 1 degree F translates into a roughly one-week increase in the length of the growing season based on some…