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According to New Atlas, the Chinese satellite TanSat has provided the first global maps of carbon dioxide. In the article, it shows maps from two months, April and July 2017. This satellite view will allow scientists to study changes in carbon dioxide across the earth depending on the season as well as highlight local maximums…
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Heavy rainfall over the last week has put a significant dent in severe drought conditions in Georgia and South Carolina, reducing it by half. Other categories of drought and dry conditions were also reduced in those states. No change was seen in North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. Southern Florida missed the rain and severe drought…
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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.…