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The Earth Institute at Columbia University posted a story this week which discussed a new study about how climate change is affecting the Corn Belt in the United States. There are two main effects: the first is that warming temperatures are increasing the rates of evaporation of soil moisture, leading to more droughts. This is…
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As a scientist I am fascinated by stories about how our current earth developed over time. Here is a great story I saw today on Facebook from The Guardian describing a new fossil find of a forest that is dated as about 386 million years old. This was before modern animals and plants and the…
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The latest Drought Monitor, released today, shows that in most of the Southeast drought has been reduced or eliminated. All severe drought is now gone from Georgia and most areas have seen a decrease in moderate drought. A new area of abnormally dry conditions (D0) has appeared in eastern North Carolina, however. Rain in the…
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The latest seasonal summary for the Southeast covering September through November 2019 was just released by the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can read it at https://sercc.com/SoutheastRegionQuarterlyReportAutumn2019.pdf.
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With just a couple of weeks to go in the year, 2019 looks like it will be the warmest on record for some cities like Savannah, Key West, Macon, Wilmington and Atlanta, especially because they are already at record-setting levels with warmer than normal weather expected through the end of December. This map from the…
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Here is a new atlas that describes a lot of factors related to agriculture, land use, and population density, among other factors, across the United States. While it was developed for use in the “Green New Deal”, even if you don’t think that is a feasible plan for dealing with changing climate, you will still…
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The latest monthly global climate summary for November 2019 was released today by NOAA. It shows that the past month was the second warmest on record for the earth as a whole based on records going back to 1880. The only higher November was 2015. The autumn period September through November was also the second…
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