Climate science
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Here’s an interesting story from Eos about unexpected changes in regional climate due to human intervention. In this story, it’s the change from using horses to draw farm equipment to mechanized tractors which caused the change. Horses eat oats, and the reduction in the number of horses used in farm work allowed farmers to switch…
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The Florida Climate Institute noted in their newsletter today that a recent article published in Science shows how much land and ocean species are moving away from the equator due to a warming climate. The summary paper is based on a February 2016 conference on “Species on the Move” which gathered about 350 international scientists…
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April is winding down, and while the final results are not yet in, it looks like the month as a whole will be well above normal across the Southeast. This means that for every month from February 2016 on, we have been above the 1981-2010 normals in temperature. At the same time, precipitation was above…
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Here are a couple of resources I have seen recently that could be good for teachers or extension agents. Web Weather for Kids is a web site with information on basic weather produced by the University Center for Atmospheric Research (UCAR). It contains information on various types of severe weather and helps kids to understand…
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This week the EPA removed many of their climate resources from their web page, including several that I have mentioned in this blog, such as the report on climate change indicators in the Southeast. Fortunately, a number of different groups have mirrored these sites, figuring that they would be taken down. So if you are…
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Many of my scientist friends read this essay by Ethan Siegel in Forbes.com and nodded our heads yes. We spend a lot of our time debating about scientific principles with both other scientists and non-scientists, often to the point of pulling our hair out. And I like my hair! This essay distills the debate into two…
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a request for input into the Georgia Climate Research Roadmap, which is an effort to identify and rank “Georgia’s Top 40” climate research questions. According to their web site, this process begins with you: they are asking experts from across the state to submit candidate questions pertinent to…