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The Southeast Farm Press released a report earlier this month describing a new variety of cattle produced by the University of Florida Range Cattle REC. The Ona White Angus was developed over two decades of cross-breeding and are similar in meat quality to Black Angus but have white hair with black skin. This will make…
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Earlier this month, the blog Carbon Brief published the results of a study asking climatologists which research paper was the most influential in the study of climate. The winner of the study was a 1967 paper by Syukuro Manabe and Richard. T. Wetherald, published in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences entitled ” Thermal Equilibrium of the atmosphere…
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Bloomberg Businessweek had an interesting article last week on the rapid depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer, a huge underground water source that feeds agricultural irrigation in most of the central Plains. The aquifer is being rapidly depleted by overuse in many places, leading farmers to consider the need to switch from corn to less water…
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The last of our snapshots on state climatologists in the Southeast will focus on Virginia. Jerry Stenger is the climatologist heading the University of Virginia Climatology Office, located at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. You can find their web site at https://climate.virginia.edu/. The Virginia office is small but has a big impact because it…
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In this series of posts we’ve looked at state climatologists from around the Southeast. Today I am featuring Dr. John Christy, the Alabama State Climatologist. His office is located at the University of Alabama-Huntsville. The web site for the office is at https://nsstc.uah.edu/aosc/. The Alabama State Climate Office provides a number of links to data…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina is one of the most active in the US. Dr. Ryan Boyles is the State Climatologist and he has a staff of over twenty people working in some capacity in the office, including a number of graduate and undergraduate students from North Carolina State University. The office supports the…
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The Association of American Geographers (AAG) recently posted an article about the future of California’s drought. They point out that even after multiple dry years, the rains will come back, and if El Nino is as strong as forecast this coming winter, they will return with a vengeance. The writer describes the situation this way:…