By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator EAST OF THE CASCADES, hundreds of thousands of cattle graze the vast rangelands. This economically vital agricultural region of the Pacific Northwest could become more productive as a result of climate change, a new study finds. Climate models show that rangelands in the interior West — […]
By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator HERE’S WHAT WE know about climate change in a nutshell: These are the conclusions of the latest assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, summarized in the Synthesis Report released a few weeks ago. The Synthesis Report ties together themes from three earlier Working […]
By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator FROM HURRICANE SANDY to this year’s drought in California and Oregon, extreme weather is now frequently associated with climate change in the popular imagination. For researchers, attributing these individual events to climate change has been tricky, though not impossible. How can researchers know whether a given […]
By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator STUDYING THE DETAILS of temperature fluctuations is essential to understanding how both individual organisms and whole ecoregions will adapt under climate change. But many studies could be missing an important nuance. Most studies examining long-term changes in temperature tend to focus on trends in the mean, […]
Reprinted from: WSU News AgWeatherNet PROSSER, Wash. – Washington’s mid-November cold snap came with well-below-normal temperatures across the central and eastern parts of the state, recalling similar events in 1955 and 1985. However, it is too early to know for certain the extent of 2014 fruit tree mortality, according to AgWeatherNet director Gerrit Hoogenboom and […]
By David Schmidt Reprinted from: Animal Ag “We are all in this together!” was the sentence that struck me in the beginning of Dr. Marty Matlock’s, presentation at the 6th annual Biomin World Nutrition Forum (Munich, Germany, November 2014). Dr. Matlock is Director of the Office of Sustainability at the University of Arkansas. I was recently […]
By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator AS THE NORTHWEST WARMS, most river basins will become more prone to flooding, while others will remain relatively unchanged, a study from the University of Washington suggests. Flood risks appear to be linked to winter temperatures (which are largely determined by elevation). Lower-elevation, warmer-winter basins in […]
By David Schmidt Reprinted from: Animal Ag Extreme events happen. We have floods, drought, blizzards, hurricanes and a variety of not so frequent events that can really cause problems on the farm. The most recent of these extreme events is the snowfall near Buffalo New York. The timing was early, the snowfall was record setting, […]