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  • The Guardian: World’s oldest known fossil forest found in New York quarry

    Pam Knox

    December 19, 2019

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate science, Forests, History
  • Drought continues to decline across most of the Southeast

    Pam Knox

    December 19, 2019

    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…

    Posted in: Drought
  • SERCC: Autumn 2019 climate summary now available

    Pam Knox

    December 19, 2019

    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.

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • 2019 will be warmest on record for parts of the Southeast

    Pam Knox

    December 18, 2019

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Climate summaries
  • The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal

    Pam Knox

    December 17, 2019

    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…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Tools for climate and agriculture
  • NOAA: November 2019 is second warmest on record for the globe

    Pam Knox

    December 16, 2019

    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…

    Posted in: Climate summaries
  • Three “supertrees” can help protect against climate collapse

    Pam Knox

    December 16, 2019

    Vox.com had an interesting story map last week on three important tree species that provide a hedge against catastrophic climate change across the world. They are the brazil nut tree from the Amazon rain forest, the stilt mangrove from Indonesia, and the African teak tree in the Congo rain forest.  You can look at the…

    Posted in: Climate and Ag in the news, Forests, Uncategorized
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The “Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast” blog is provided by the Associate Dean of Extension as a service to Extension agents and agricultural producers across the Southeast US. Come here to find out information about the impacts of weather and climate on agriculture across Georgia and beyond.

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