#Iowa Scientists Say Climate Change Threatens State Agriculture At the Iowa Climate Science Educators'Forum last week a group of more than 150 scientists representing 36 colleges
and universities around Iowa released a statement of action concerning future climate change. Calling climate change a rising challenge to Iowa agriculture this year's Iowa Climate Statement says that changing weather patterns
and an increase in extreme events has put the state's ability to grow food at risk.
The researchers who gathered at Drake University in Des moines note that Iowa has vacillated between two weather extremes over the past few years.
The state went from widespread drought in 2011 and 2012 to the wettest spring on record in 2013 and back to drought this summer Last year the group's report focused mainly on how climate change makes extreme drought more likely.
and the USDA to work to make the land more resilient in the face of climate change.
The study mainly looked at environmental campaigns featuring different inanimate objects with faces that asked people for help.
While the moon is a harsh environment (like the arctic) it is also the first base ground for expanding human civilization due to the increased number of humans in existence (we all eventually will not be able to fit on this one world.
Might end up with annoying neighbors who don't stop talking.@@Jupiter1987 I see your point clearly sir.
There's a NASA effort to send romaine lettuce planters to the International Space station programs investigating crop production in Mars-like environments
and you have a point-cloud: a 3-D model mapped at a 1: 1 scale and accurate down to the centimeter.
but that too is seen as the tip of the iceberg. Wayne Gerdes the father of hypermiling can nearly double the rated efficiency of cars using fuel-sipping techniques that could be incorporated into auto-driving software.
The EPA has a new mileage mandate for car manufacturers: They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025;
Take it to some place where it can control the environment. What they should do is buy
when the lidar is being blinded pretty much by the snow?).I would think that the best way to proceed would be to allow these vehicles to be driverless only in certain areas.
when exiting the store with a boat-load of groceries in the pouring rain. Automated Carsthis is a good project
And it seems summers like last year's are going to become more commonplace with 2012-esque temps becoming more likely specifically in the north-central and northeastern United states. This study follows on the heels of a recently leaked draft of an Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change report
which noted that scientists believe we are experiencing more heat waves because of climate change --which yes we're still sure humans are causing.
and it's clear that we're not optimally adapted to that new climate. As always we can't point to climate change as the cause of one specific weather event.
But it's pretty clear it raises the likelihood of extreme weather including extreme heat.
and it's clear that we're not optimally adapted to that new climate co-author Noah Diffenbaugh an associate professor of environmental Earth system science said in a statement.
Knowing how much our emissions have changed the likelihood of this kind of severe heat event can help us to minimize the impacts of the next heat wave
and to determine the value of avoiding further changes in climate. The report was part of a special supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society called Explaining Extreme Events of 2012 From a Climate Perspective.
Stanford News Most state and city heat records in the US were set prior to 1955 particularly during the spectacularly hot summer of 1936.
Either use a climate model that takes in all the factors or shut the hell up with your man made global warming conspiracy BS!
I really wish they would stop this push on anthropogenic climate change. Record highs by continent (in F) North america:
or 4 times so that the climate is what they say it is...that way it doesn't matter...
Tropical storm Gabrielle fizzles: Why has hurricane season been so calm? www. csmonitor. com/Environment/2013/0905/Tropical-storm-Gabrielle-fizzles-Why-has-hurricane-season-been-so-calm-videoif the first hurricane fails to appear until after 8 a m. Eastern Daylight Time
Sept. 15 this will be the most hurricane-free first half of a season since satellites began tracking the storms in 1967 he notes in an e-mail.
We're also at a 10-year low in tornado activity. But a good try nonetheless Popular Science.
Keep up the good work. We all need a break from reality now and then. Welcome to Popular Junk Science. propseudosci-is at it again.
Tell the lie enough and it becomes truth. A country's extreme record temp is not a good indicator of global warming
which creates climate change two different items that the deniers claim to be the same.
scientists believe we are experiencing more heat waves because of climate change --which yes we're still sure humans are causing is the most unscientific statement
Climate change melted the last ice age which has nothing to do with now as it was...
The climate has changed many times in the past. That is not any kind of a scientific explanation as to how humans are not causing the current climate change (we are.
Each time the climate has changed something triggered it. We humans are the trigger (this time around)
and need to own up to the damage we are causing the planet and the consequences we are leaving to future generations (much more than just climate change)..
The earth's magnetic field impacts climate: Danish studycopenhagen (AFP)--The earth's climate has been affected significantly by the planet's magnetic field according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for global warming.
Our results show a strong correlation between the strength of the earth's magnetic field and the amount of precipitation in the tropics one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark told the Videnskab journal.
He and his colleague Peter Riisager of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) compared a reconstruction of the prehistoric magnetic field 5000 years ago based on data drawn from stalagmites
and stalactites found in China and Oman The results of the study which has also been published in US scientific journal Geology lend support to a controversial theory published a decade ago by Danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark who claimed the climate was influenced highly by galactic cosmic ray (GCR
) particles penetrating the earth's atmosphere. Svensmark's theory which pitted him against today's mainstream theorists who claim carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for global warming involved a link between the earth's magnetic field
and climate since that field helps regulate the number of GCR particles that reach the earth's atmosphere.
The only way we can explain the (geomagnetic-climate) connection is through the exact same physical mechanisms that were present in Henrik Svensmark's theory Knudsen said.
If changes in the magnetic field which occur independently of the earth's climate can be linked to changes in precipitation then it can only be explained through the magnetic field's blocking of the cosmetic rays he said.
The two scientists acknowledged that CO2 plays an important role in the changing climate but the climate is an incredibly complex system
and it is unlikely we have a full overview over which factors play a part
Svensmark's Theory Explainedman-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book to be published this week they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
High levels of cloud cover blankets the Earth and reflects radiated heat from the Sun back out into space causing the planet to cool.
Henrik Svensmark a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
He claims carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity are having a smaller impact on climate change than scientists think.
If he is correct it could mean that mankind has more time to reduce our effect on the climate...
Earthquake News Ecology compassthe end of the world as we know it could come in any number of ways depending on who you ask.
or the other triggering massive earthquakes rapid climate change and species extinctions. The geologic record shows that hundreds of pole reversals have occurred throughout Earth's history;
The charged particles bombarding Earth's atmosphere during solar storms would punch holes in Earth's atmosphere
Even now solar storms can damage satellites cause power outages and interrupt radio communications. These kinds of negative influences clearly will increase
and southern lights as they excite gases in the atmosphere. As the magnetic poles migrate across the world those night lights are going to light up some very strange places where they have never been seen before.
That might drastically affect the weather. There is a growing body of evidence that the sun's highly charged particles batter the upper atmosphere so hard that some of the assault filters down into the atmosphere around us influencing the wind atmospheric pressure and temperature.
Without our magnetic shield those solar particles might create havoc with the weather. That cosmic radiation blasting the Earth's surface could cause genetic mutations and cancers.
Yet when palaeontologists scoured the fossil records looking for signs of mass extinctions or bursts of evolution during previous magnetic field flips they found nothing.
During the reversal we can experience increased earthquake activity even an earthquake storm. Three new volcanoes are being born in the various undersea locations of the Pacific ocean at this time.
or just changes in the atmospheric environment. 1.)The sun cycles. 2.)The recent contribution by humans and the industrial revolution with the production of pollution of material and gases-CO2 and more. 3.)The extreme rare
Which when it does occur does have an larger effect on the global environment in a broad spectrum influence with one of the influences being global warming.
Number 1 and 3 we humans only have the choice of adapting to the situationby the way NASA has written articles about the changing magnetic field and its effect on the environment too.
But if it is happening it would have an effect on large dramatic effecdt On earth and the weather.
I go to the comments section of a global warming article to see all the armchair climate skeptics pretend to know what they're talking about. drchuck1 ok ok funny how
Exactly which Climatologist Climate Scientist Geologist Meteorologist and general weather model do you believe in? If you are so against adding Cosmic and Solar forcing data why?
Right now after looking at the NASA Climate Data which falls right in line with your mainstream view I still don't believe that ALL OF the warming is caused by man.
http://climate. nasa. gov/evidencei still don't believe this is MAIN the cause of the current warming trend.
and Algerian troops noticed a curious yellow-green cloud drifting slowly towards their line. Puzzled but suspicious The french suspected that the cloud masked an advance by German infantry
and ordered their men to'stand to'that is to mount the trench fire step in readiness for probable attack.
The cloud did not mask an infantry attack however; at least not yet. It signalled in fact the first use of chlorine gas on the battlefield.
However releasing gas from cylinders in this manner meant that the user had to be wary of wind conditions.
It was desirable that a light wind exist in the direction of the enemy trenches;
if the wind were to turn however the biter would be bit. In parts of The british line that morning this is precisely
The wind shifted and quantities of the smoke and gas were blown back into The british trenches.
Thanks to storms this spread far enough to affect the flock of sheep and killed over 6000.
No where in his article does he mention persistent and non persistent agents. non persistent agents break down easily given certain environmental conditions such as heat humidity exposure to sunlight. persistent agents can stay around for years.
The Kenyan government is also giving away the first batch of seeds six metric tons of it to seed producers in hopes their fields will serve as visual persuasion to their neighbors to try the new stuff.
and the burning of one drop creates enough heat to ignite the one next to it and so on making a cloud of oil droplets extremely flammable.
Where might a cloud of oil droplets come from? From that big frozen bird. The recommended oil temperature for a deep fryer is 350°well above the boiling point of water.
and catch on fire beginning a chain reaction that ignites a large cloud of droplets. The result is the smell of a county fair
which works very well even in a brisk wind and bring the oil back up to 350.
but have treated neighbors family and friends to what they thought was the best tasting and tenderest turkies they've ever tasted.
Diegohate to rain on your parade guys but the turkey water oil and you are currently and forever and ever on fire!
and had become frustrated by his colleagues ignorance of meat s role in climate change.
A neighborhood bar might make drinks with a little less booze; while a modern speakeasy-style cocktail bar might emphasize the spirit by reducing both the sweet and sour.
But probably not because this is a positive environment and all guesses are welcome and also this is not a very common animal so guess whatever you want!
and cloud forests and can leap absurdly long distances. It's not uncommon to see colobus monkeys leaping 20 feet from tree to tree.
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29pm-Comment by drchuck1 You blame liberals for the climate change/global warming lie (not a lie)
when actually the scientific community is the driving force behind the push to clean up the environment
but might it have a more negative effect on the environment? After all won't this encourage people who would normally buy relatively environmentally-friendly digital books to spend a couple extra bucks for a physical copy they don't need even?
The move to ebooks in the past few years has been a victory overall for the environment. Printed books are surprisingly awful in this respect;
we all sort of assume that that much paper can't be great for the environment but the actual amount of carbon dioxide emissions is shocking.
The EPA estimates that regular use of a car results in about 5. 1 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year so using some very tricky math that means that over that same four-year period a car will let loose with 20.4 metric tons
and screen and factory emissions from production--but after that's done the environmental cost of each book you read on a Kindle is near zero.
Slate estimated back in 2010 that by the time you've read your 23rd book on the Kindle you've gotten yourself equal to the environmental cost of reading physical books--so everything after that is gravy.
The environmental cost of disposal is something else entirely but let's leave that alone for now.)
which has a minimal environmental impact. This is great news. Book publishing is progressing environmentally (we're making no claims about the feel of a printed book in the hand here.
Someone who usually buys digital books may now opt for the physical+digital bundle meaning that their environmental impact goes way up.
The environmental impact is incredibly difficult to calculate. Off hand one very major component has been ignored in this article:
Also it's a lot harder to censor material that is spread across the globe physically then it is to change a few paragraphs of something saved on a server somewhere in the cloud.
Insects are cheap to grow easy on the environment and high in protein and minerals.
The important thing about reproduction is that it copies perfectly (yes some random variation do to environmental damage of gametes
Echoviren exposes an ecosystem of dynamic natural and unnatural interventions: the interplay of man and nature moderated by technology over the centuries.
and Environment at Mcgill University in Montreal was eating every part of the animal and you have to eat some of it raw.
Their topics are dominated by global warming gun control environmental studies gay rights left leaning political news etc.
GGENUA is against the research of such things as the environment gun control global warming or any number of things that might create opinion based upon evidence in opposition to
And I am not against cleaning up the environment since it just makes sense to do so.
Today according to the Global Footprint Network more than 80 percent of the world's population lives in countries that use more than their ecosystems can renew.
and Egypt 2. 4. China's ecological footprint is the largest (they would need 2. 5 Chinas to accommodate their population)--though the per capita footprint is smaller than many European or North american countries.
To calculate the date the Global Footprint Network figures out how many days of a particular year the Earth's biocapacity can provide for the total ecological footprint.
So world biocapacity divided by world ecological footprint times 365 equals Earth Overshoot Day. The think tank calculates biocapacity by looking at the amount of productive area (both land
A country has an ecological reserve if its footprint is smaller than its biocapacity and likewise if its footprint exceeds biocapacity it is an ecological debtor.
The Global Footprint Network notes that the date is an approximation. The precision of the exact date is limited by aggregated country datasets
To read about more environmental holidays go here. Setting aside the arguments of human induced global warming is happening which
Depletion of forests and associated erosion and environmental damage in developing countries is a concern.
Frostty Global Footprint Network bases their conclusions on what they call ecological footprint and biocapacity.
Ecological footprint is what GFN decides the population should be to fit the biocapacity of a given country.
And GFN doesn't need to worry about Japan's ecological-footpring-to-biocapacity ratio much longer
You get all in a huff that the scientific community overwhelmingly agrees that humans are causing global warming and the resultant climate change.
Those who accept the fact that the climates are changing are focused on not making things worse
and bringing it to Earth's relatively low-pressure environment would cause it to expand explosively without proper containment.
BE FREEHEY can I get a cuppla those for fog lights? I think most people are trying to avoid foods that are too heavy anyway.
Lolrecycled articles good for the environment ok for you. http://webcache. googleusercontent. com/search? q=cache:
The report also adjusts its expectations for important climate change effects such as how much sea levels will rise
while admitting the difficulty in estimating what will happen to individual cities in the age of climate change.
Reuters recently got a hold of a draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's next report the first stage of which is due in September.
and the World meteorological organization periodically summarizes the worldwide scientific consensus on climate change. It's more than 2000 pages long.
They drive decisions about what do to prepare towns and nations for rising sea levels more extreme weather and other effects from climate change.
In recent years though the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has nudged its certainty level upward from 90 percent in 2007 to 95 percent in the latest draft Reuters reports.
While climate change deniers often challenge the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change most scientists consider the panel conservative.
In its 2007 report it said the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. Later the panel found that claim was speculative
Cycles of the Sun effects global weather the sun NOW is in a current stage of polar shift.
and consumption of Earths recourse while putting constantly into the environment pollution and yes environmental polluting gases
which cause global warming and reduction of the ozone. The rich will continue to exploit the masses
It s not big oil that feeds climate change deniers it s the scientists themselves who refuse to say a crisis will happen only might happen so science can end this costly debate today
Yes our climate is warming. It has been for thousands of years. The extraordinary claim that CO2 going from 0. 02%of our atmosphere to being 0. 04%of our atmosphere can cause dramatic changes in our climate requires extraordinary proof.
There are also some pretty convincing signs that the'excess'carbon is SURFACE carbon not from fossil fuels.
The climate of the planet is changing and due to man made influences but it is chemtrails the program of doping the earth's atmosphere with weather control chemicals from high flying jets not fossil fuels that caused it.
when the first new cloud species at that time was observed the cirrus intortus. Many if not most who oppose chemtrails believe they began around 1997
because that's when they started to be seen in the sky in great numbers long non dissipating vapor trails stretching from horizon to horizon
Since 1997 most manifestations associated with climate change have been recorded. Including the warmest year on record;
the rapid melting of glaciers; the National Weather Service having to recalculate wind chill to accommodate the air having more heat than it used to;
tornadoes occurring where they were once unknown like Brooklyn; the worst hurricane season on record;
the Northwest Passage being open for the first time in history; the disappearance of bees; the arrival of unprecedented hundred mile per hour straight line wind storms called âÂ#Âoesuper derechosã¢Â#Â;
the development of the first new cloud species to be recognized since the 1950's the undulatus asperatus.
But many promoting the idea of climate change are as craven as those opposing it. They won't admit that chemtrails are altering the climate.
Because they have a vested interest in seeing technology based on the idea of getting rid of fossil fuels flourish such as windmills
and solar farms even though they can do at least as much damage to the environment as fossil fuels.
Wind helps distribute dust and disperse seeds and it's essential to the dissipating of temperature.
Solar farms with their huge reflecting surfaces will heat dust in the air unnaturally can destroy cloud cover
It is obvious from past IPCC assessments that they exclude studies that show no significant warming no significant sea level rise no significant negative impact of climate change and so forth.
The IPCC bases its predictions on computer-generated global climate models not on extrapolating real world measures of things like sea level rise or global temperature trends.
Those climate models include forcings and feedbacks that attempt to increase the amount of warming
and sea level rise based on arbitrary guesstimates of how much say CO2 aerosols water vapor etc. affects global climate.
and warming than the global climate models imply. For your information: 1. There has been no statistically significant warming
and so are a certain group of climate scientists but most other people aren't like geoscientists engineers and meteorologists;
-and-engineers-believe in-agw/3. All the data about heat waves in the U s. show no correlation to CO2
or global warming but a strong correlation to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (El Niã Â o and La Niã Â a). Meteorologists know that all heat waves are regional not global events
. If you want to learn about weather and climate ask a meteorologist not a climate scientist. 4. Satellite pictures show that the increasing CO2 saturation
of the atmosphere has caused the earth to green. Plants thrive on CO2. A note about the power plant in the picture.
I'd believe that desertification by destruction of plants would be a larger cause than burning fossil fuels. jefro there's an undeniable cause of climate change!
and reversion the man-caused destruction of those environments even if it means less land for the rattlesnakes.
This seems to be the largest storm of the year so far and the change is a little over 1%or 0. 01.
@the rest of youthe conclusion that the global warming in the latter part of the 20th century is a result of anthropogenic CO2 is computerized based on climate models (Global Circulation Models-GCMS) in
Many scientists do not agree that the certainty exists in the models ability to forecast the future climate
The IPCC (AR4) report (The Physical Basis of Climate Change 2007 http://ipcc-wg1. ucar. edu/wg1/wg1-report. html) states that:
The best estimate is+0. 12 Watts per square metre âÂ#Â. The problem is that it is understood not currently how this small amount of change in solar irradiance during the solar cycle can influence the earth s climate.
and winds in the stratosphere and has been hypothesised to influence clouds through cosmic rays (Section 2. 7. 1. 3). Note that there is substantial uncertainty in the identification of climate response to solar cycle variations
and because the response is difficult to separate from internal climate variations and the response to volcanic eruptionsã¢Â# Thus due to the fact that the satellite record was (at the time the AR4 was written) less than 30 years
A study published in 2003 (âÂ#Âoedo Models Underestimate the Solar Contribution to Recent Climate Change?
âÂ# by Peter Stott Gareth Jones and John Mitchell Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research Met Office United kingdom Journal of Climate December 2003
) http://climate. envsci. rutgers. edu/pdf/Stottetal. pdf States: âÂ#Âoeit is found that current climate models underestimate the observed climate response to solar forcing over the twentieth century as a whole indicating that the climate system has a greater sensitivity to solar forcing than do models.
âÂ# The National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences) produced a study called âÂ#Âoeclimate Change Science:
However indirect measures of solar activity suggest that there has been a positive trend of solar irradiance over the industrial eraã¢Â# It is not implausible that solar irradiance has been a significant driver of climate during part of the industrial
And yet according to the NOAA National Climatic Data center http://www. ncdc. noaa. gov/oa/climate/globalwarming. html âÂ#Âoeour understanding of the indirect effects of changes
in solar output and feedbacks in the climate system is minimalã¢Â#Â. The importance of fluctuations
and trends in solar inputs in affecting the climate is modeled inadequately. Although the sun exhibits varies types of energy related events (sunspots solar flares coronal mass ejections) sunspots have been observed
The climate models assume that the solar irradiance varies by a negligible amount throughout the cycle.
a) in their parameterizations of climate feedbacks and atmosphere-ocean coupling;(b) in their neglect of indirect response by the stratosphere and of possible additional climate effects linked to solar magnetic field UV radiation solar flares and cosmic ray intensity modulations;(
c) there might be other possible natural amplification mechanisms deriving from internal modes of climate variability
which are included not in the modelsã¢Â# A study done by an Assistant professor of Earth sciences at Dartmouth University http://www. sciencedaily. com/releases/2002/06/020607073439. htm looked at the cycles of the sun s magnetic
and this solar activity in turn may likely cause the 100000-year climate cycles on earthã¢Â# Sharma's calculations suggest that
when the sun is magnetically more active the earth experiences a warmer climate and vice versa when the sun is magnetically less active there is a glacial period.
The earth's magnetic field impacts climate: Danish study...COPENHAGEN (AFP)--The earth's climate has been affected significantly by the planet's magnetic field according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for global warming.
Our results show a strong correlation between the strength of the earth's magnetic field and the amount of precipitation in the tropics one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark told the Videnskab journal...
Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed according to controversial new research.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book to be published this week they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet...
http://www. viewzone. com/magnetic. weather. htmlearth's Magnetic field http://sedonanomalies. weebly. com/earths-magnetic-field. htmlglobal Warming Science-www. appinsys. com
/Globalwarmingearth s Magnetic field and Climate Variability last update: 2010/05/28 http://www. appinsys. com/Globalwarming/Earthmagneticfield. htm...Lost in migration:
The only thing stopping Earth having a lifeless environment like Mars is the magnetic field that shields us from deadly solar radiation
Other factors such as ocean currents and magnetic rocks in the earth's crust also contribute. The Swarm mission will pull all these elements together to improve computer models used to predict how the magnetic field will move
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