In current climate news around the world, one of the biggest has been the continuing intense bush fires that have plagued eastern Australia, decimating the wild habitat of koalas and bringing thick smoke to Sydney and other coastal cities. The fires, like our fires in the Southeast in 2016, were…
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Every January, Georgia Ag Forecasts presents a series of five one-day workshops describing the current status of Georgia agriculture and providing an outlook for next year. Their latest series of forecasts for January 2020 has been scheduled. You can read more information about dates and locations in Morning Ag Clips…
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NOAA’s monthly climate summary for November 2019 came out today. It shows that November 2019 was in the middle third of years for temperature for the US as was autumn 2019. Precipitation for November was in the driest third of years but the autumn amount was in the upper third…
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Sea surface temperatures are rising due to the trapping of heat in the atmosphere caused by burning of fossil fuels and the increase in greenhouse gases. I’ve seen several articles recently which describe how the warmer oceans is hurting commercial fishing around the world. It is to be expected that…
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In the Southeast we have our competition for groundwater for irrigation and other needs, which has now become part of the Water War between Florida, Georgia and Alabama. But competition for groundwater is occurring in many other parts of the US as well. This long story from the Arizona Republic…
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In November, I attended the Georgia Climate Conference at Emory University and moderated a session on agriculture and climate change. We had some really interesting discussion on how important farming is to the Georgia economy and how farmers need to be part of the conversation about how we deal with…
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The Southeast Farm Press reported last week that the deadline for getting help dealing with debris from Hurricane Michael has been extended for six months because of the volume of debris that is left. Wet weather has slowed the ability of contractors to remove the debris as well. For more…
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