By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator A NEW PAPER published in the Journal of Climate suggests that the risk of decade-long droughts, like the Dust Bowl in the 20th century, may be greater than previously estimated. The greatest risk is in the Southwest United States, where the likelihood of these droughts occurring […]
By David Schmidt Reprinted from: Animal Ag Happy New Year to all of you! Now back to the work at hand. Livestock – Climate Change’s Forgotten Sector: Global Public Opinion on Meat and Dairy Consumption is a report that you all should read. The premise is that although animal agriculture is among the major contributors […]
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 David Schmidt Reprinted from: Animal Ag Likely true, but what does this mean? This first graph shows temperature over time with a general lack of increase in warming since 1998. This past week I had the rare opportunity to meet someone who “wrote the book.” This has never happened to me before. Unfortunately, I did […]
By Chad Kruger Reprinted from: WSU CSANR Perspectives on Sustainability In two prior posts (threats and variability), based on our research, I have argued that climate change is not likely to be a major cause for concern for agricultural production in the Pacific Northwest until at least mid-century. A little bit of warming and a […]
By David Schmidt Reprinted from: Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate My thoughts today are triggered by a series called “Future of Food” in the National Geographic Magazine. This series explores the critical topic of feeding 2 billion more people in the next 35 years (2050). The November issue arrived yesterday and the feature FOOD […]
By Georgine Yorgey Reprinted from: WSU CSANR Perspectives on Sustainability In a previous post, I explained that available evidence currently indicates nitrous oxide emissions may be fairly low in the inland Pacific Northwest, compared to other cropland agricultural systems in the U.S. and world. If ongoing research confirms these early results, then I suggested that […]
By CIRCulator Editorial Staff Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator THE GLOBE’S current trajectory of energy use and carbon emissions most closely aligns with the worst-case emissions scenario (RCP8.5) from the latest set of four socioeconomic greenhouse gas concentration trajectories considered in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Because the four trajectories used in the report are […]
By Chad Kruger Reprinted from: WSU CSANR Perspectives on Sustainability The observed temperature records of the US Pacific Northwest show a small, but statistically significant amount of warming of just over 1 degree F since the year 1900. A paper published in March of this year by Abatzaglou, Rupp and Mote (2014) used a multiple […]
By John Abatzoglou, U Idaho jabatzoglou@uidaho.edu, Philip Mote, OSU pmote@coas.oregonstate.edu, David Rupp, OSU drupp@coas.oregonstate.edu Reprinted from: The Climate CIRCulator Comments on “Atmospheric controls on northeast Pacific temperature variability and change, 1900–2012″ by Johnstone and Mantua Synopsis: A preliminary examination of this paper suggests that the results – in particular the conclusion that rising greenhouse gases played little role […]