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The Southeast Regional Climate Hub has produced a new comprehensive document describing the Southeast’s vulnerability to changing climate and methods for adapting to and mitigating for the effects of those likely changes. It includes impacts on crops, livestock, and forests across the region. You can read the document at https://climatehubs.oce.usda.gov/sites/default/files/Southeast%20Vulnerability%20Assessment%20Final.pdf.
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PBS Newshour put together a 4 minute video describing some current research by UGA professor Merryl Alber to study what happens to coastal marshes when you change them from fresh water to salt water. This is expected to happen as sea level continues to rise in the next century. You can see the video and read…
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Modern Farmer posted a story this week about a new tea farm, the first one to be planted in Mississippi, although there are currently several in Hawaii, a few in the Pacific Northwest and one in South Carolina. Even though tea has traditionally been grown in tropical areas with warm and humid climates, the tea plant…
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Recently I posted a story about nuisance flooding and its projected increase for parts of the Atlantic coast due to El Niño as well as rising sea levels. Here is a good FAQ on what nuisance flooding is and why it is important (link).
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has a new product available on their main web page at https://www.cpc.noaa.gov/. For the first time, they are publishing experimental 3-4 week climate outlooks that are similar to the 6-10 day and 8-14 day forecasts. You can see the latest forecasts for 3-4 weeks below. They show a high likelihood of above…
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Our sister blog at “Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate” has a new post this week on the role that farmers play in the climate change story. You can read it at https://animalagclimatechange.org/victim-contributor-solver/.
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In this blog I talk a lot about El Niño because it has the most significant impact of any climate cycle on the climate of the Southeast. You might be interested in the history of how El Niño was discovered and why it has the name it has. I read a great article by Julia Busiek in…