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If you’ve ever wondered how climate models work and why climatologists use them to look at the future climate, you might be interested in this long but excellent description of climate models and how they are used. There is a lot of excellent detail in this presentation at https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-how-do-climate-models-work.
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Florida Politics posted a story this week on the four major impacts from Hurricane Michael on forestry in the Panhandle of Florida and in southwestern Georgia. They are storms, long-term flooding, fire threat, and pine beetle. With so much destruction of the forests there, the groves are now especially susceptible to the impacts of severe…
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A recent scientific study presented at the latest meeting of the American Geophysical Union suggests that the American Southwest may be in the beginning of a mega-drought, which is an extended period of abnormally dry conditions. A number of mega-droughts have been identified in the desert Southwest using tree rings and other paleo-climate indicators, with…
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The latest monthly summary for the Southeast is now available from the Southeast Regional Climate Center. You can view it at https://www.sercc.com/SoutheastRegionMonthlyClimateReportDecember2018.pdf.
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Here is a cool new web site that shows you where your address was millions of years ago when the continents were in significantly different places than they are now. You can read more and access the direct link here. And ask yourself how we know where the continents were millions of years ago and…
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Earlier this month, Forbes.com published a simple and clearly written article describing what global warming is and how it works. I am not sure I would characterize it as the simplest ever, but it is still a good explanation of how carbon dioxide and other gases are affecting the temperature of the earth as a…
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Here is an interesting map put together by Brian Brettschneider on how the annual average temperatures in 2018 compare to previous years. It is based on 1289 stations around the US that have temperature records going back at least 50 years. What is shows is that for large parts of the Southeast, 2018’s temperatures were…