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Yale Climate Connections released a short audio report this week on how Charleston SC residents are identifying areas of their city that are being affected by rising sea levels that even the best computer models missed. Listen to how they did it and find a link to an online tool from the Charleston aquarium which…
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Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Community Webinar Series Recent Research Efforts to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions This webinar will discuss research projects focused on reducing greenhouse gases, odorous volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide. Mindy Spiehs will provide insight on anabolic steroid and ionophore usage in beef cattle production, and Baitong Chen…
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I’m still catching up after my trip, so have not written my monthly climate summary for May yet. The quick version is that most of the region was warmer and drier than normal in temperature. Here are the summaries from around the region: Florida North Carolina Southeast
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With the crazy swings in weather we have had in Georgia this spring and early summer, it’s not a big surprise that the weather has had some big impacts on weed as well as crop growth this year. Eric Prostko of UGA Extension provides an overview of how the weather has affected crop development this…
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You may have seen the graphic “climate stripes” for the US showing the annual temperature for each year as a colored stripe. They’ve been made into scarves, rugs, ties and other articles and show how recent years are warmer (redder) than previous years. It’s an interesting way to view the changes in climate that we…
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Dr. Jonathon Foley is a former graduate of the University of Wisconsin like I am, and has spent much of his life looking at the impacts of changing climate on the earth. Here is a short and easy to read discussion of how we know climate is changing and where the greenhouse gases that are…
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Which came first, the warmer temperatures or the increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? This has been one of the perplexing questions in studies of past climate. A new study was released last week which shows that the changes in carbon dioxide in past ice ages was due to a combination of colder sea surface…