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After yesterday’s announcement that the Japan Meteorological Agency had determined that according to their data that October was the warmest on record, it should come as no surprise that NOAA has also measured the highest temperature since their records started in 1880 for both October and for the year to date, breaking the previous records…
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Dr. Jeff Lee, a professor of geosciences from Texas Tech, is featured in this videotaped lecture about causes of the Dust Bowl and whether a similar pattern could occur again. The video is about 30 minutes long and is best at discussing the causes of the Dust Bowl. It’s not the highest quality, but you…
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The “States at Risk” website was put together to look at how well each state is prepared to deal with impacts of changing climate. The site provides ratings for each state on how prepared they are to deal with extreme heat, coastal and inland flooding, drought and wildfires and combines them into one overall grade. …
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I’m meeting today with other scientists on the Animal Agriculture and Climate Change research project that helps fund this blog. One of the topics for discussion was the AACC resources page at https://animalagclimatechange.org/resources/. This page now has a search capability which allows you to look for resources related to specific species, climate topics, mitigation and…
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Discover magazine published a story yesterday discussing the first of several news releases describing the ramp-up in global temperature that was observed in October. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, this past October was the warmest in a record stretching back 1891, with a global average temperature for the month coming in at 0.85°C above the…
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The Southeast Regional Climate Center noted on Facebook today that many weather observing stations in the Southeast have already reached the #1 rank for the wettest fall on record, with two weeks still to go (and rain on the way). You can produce your own map at https://www.sercc.com/perspectivesmap?date=2015-11-16&var=precip&period=STD&map_display=rank. Note that there are also a few stations…
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The State Climate Office of North Carolina posted an article to their blog today from Bradley McLamb, Meteorologist at the NC Division of Air Quality, and Corey Davis listing the possibilities for cold outbreaks this winter. Even though El Niño is currently expected to impact the Southeast’s weather for the next few months, not every El Niño…