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There has been a wealth of stories related to climate and/or agriculture in the past few weeks. Here are a few that have caught my eye. I hope you will find one or more useful to you. Bloomberg Businessweek: The Fighting Has Begun Over Who Owns Land Drowned by Climate Change New Haven Register: One…
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Here’s a very interesting story about some work done by John Magnuson, one of my colleagues from my days in Wisconsin. John is an expert in ice-off dates on lakes, and this story is about how he and some other scientists were able to decipher two very long records of ice dates kept by monks…
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Recent research on tropical storms and how they might develop and grow in a warmer climate shows that it is quite likely that in the future, tropical storms and hurricanes will be larger than they have been in the past. This is due to a combination of warmer water, which provides energy to the systems,…
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With sea levels rising around the world due to thermal expansion of ocean water and melting of polar ice, you might expect the sea level to be rising equally everywhere, since all the oceans are connected. However, there are local areas where sea level is rising faster than others due to effects of land movement,…
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A new study published recently by the Royal Meteorological Society has confirmed what climatologists have known for quite a while–minimum temperatures (which are usually observed around sunrise) are rising faster over time than maximum (daytime) temperatures. One of the results of this is that the daily temperature range between max and min temperatures is decreasing.…
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Yahoo News posted an interesting article from Tech Crunch today which shows a new site that contains 3-dimensional views of clouds as a demonstration of the power of visualization of large data sets. You might enjoy looking at the images and reading about it here. You can also read more at https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2018/04/clouds-in-three-dimensions.html.
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Now that we are past the freeze season, farmers are starting to look ahead to the peach crop for this year. Earlier this month I reported that Georgia farmers were expecting about a 10 percent loss due to frost. This week the Southeast Farm Press offered a story on the South Carolina peach crop and…