Climate science
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If we want to understand the climate of the future, it is important that we first understand the climate of the past. Unfortunately, weather records only go back about 150 years. To look climates on longer time frames, we need the help of paleoclimatologists who look at proxy data like tree rings, lake and ocean…
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Have you ever seen a strange cloud in the sky and wondered what it was? Smithsonian.com posted a short but interesting article about a new “weird cloud atlas” that helps people identify some of the stranger clouds in the sky. You can read about it and see a few pictures at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ufo-or-crazy-cloud-weird-cloud-atlas-helps-you-decide-17428407/. Or go to the…
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This week’s question from the Georgia Climate Project’s Roadmap focuses on how we can leverage natural systems to help protect Georgia’s coastline and important infrastructure. For example, by rebuilding natural wetlands we may be able to protect against some of the likely increased flooding scientists expect us to experience in the future. Maintaining the string…
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Projections of future climate indicate that global temperatures are likely to get a lot warmer by 2100. If this occurs, we will need to determine ways to counteract the warming. Geoengineering is the process of making changes to the earth to keep the earth from warming as much as we expect. These techniques could include…
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Last week I shared a link to an online course about the weather from the University of Exeter. Today I would like to point you to a list of additional resources put together by Dennis Mercereau in Forbes.com. Even though this is not an exhaustive list of resources, the ones it does provide give a…
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Time magazine has a really interesting long-form story this week about a new weather model that is being developed at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton NJ which could significantly improve weather forecasting on the time period of a week or more. Having better long-range predictions could help people who have weather-sensitive industries plan…
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A friend of mine sent this video clip from an old television show called “Bell Telephone’s Science Hour” made in 1958. It was directed by Frank Capra, the famous movie director. This clip was from an episode called “The Unchained Goddess” which was about the weather. Amazingly, I remember this program being shown at a…