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In my Facebook feed this morning I read a story from the Washington Post about the growing shortage of chocolate, mainly due to increases in demand from China and other places and also increased demand for dark chocolate, which uses more cocoa, but also due to dry weather in West Africa, specifically Ghana and the Ivory…
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The National Weather Service in Peachtree City GA posted this map of morning temperatures from Kent McMullen today. The purple line marks 32 degrees, the freezing point. Note how much of the country is covered by these icy conditions. You can expect another cold morning tomorrow in the Southeast before temperatures start to swing back…
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NOAA has just announced the availability of a new web site which provides a toolkit of information on how to become more resilient to changes in climate over time. It is especially geared to coastal issues, but there is a lot of information for all stakeholders there. For example, there is a carbon calculator for…
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The North Carolina State Climatology office published a blog this morning which discussed several well-known climate folklore and what they predict for winter. Based on several predictors, winter is projected to be cold and snowy. But how accurate are they? Read the answer at https://nc-climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=104&h=5666e5c1.
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The Packer published an article this week describing the impact of recent climate on the strawberry market. The article states that a heat wave in California in October brought on fruit faster than expected, but since then cooler weather has cut volumes, decreasing supplies and increasing demand. Production in southern California, Mexico and Florida are…
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Two recent studies have looked at changes in climate which could occur in the future if global warming trends continue. In one study, described in this article in Phys.org, scientists used coral growth rings in the remote island of Kiribati to compare with measured temperature and salinity patterns in the western Pacific to find a…
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A recent study of perceptions of climate change (published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society) shows that there are significant differences between attitudes of scientists and agricultural producers on the causes of climate change. Over 90 percent of scientists are sure that climate change is occurring and more than 50 percent attribute it…
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