Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global warming. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Fearing Climate Change--Don't Underestimate Resilience

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 Virginia Postrel has an old article   on several things, but the hook is the difference between East and West Coasts, specifically Silicon ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Global Warming

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 Bits from today's media:  Charlestown SC sees "sunny day" flooding of streets about once a week. Since then , temperatures i...
Friday, February 11, 2022

The Commodity Credit Corporation Piggy Bank

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 CCC was set up in the 1930's. One of the reasons was to handle the money for entitlement programs: farm programs which established paym...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

The United States of Excess

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 This is a 2015 small book by Robert Paarlberg, subtitled "Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism.". Its thesis i...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Global Warming and the Arctic

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 Vox has this post which updates a previous post of mine which noted commercial shippers using the Arctic in the summertime to go from Asi...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Ice on the Mississippi

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 Am I remembering things.  Just caught a snippet of news about ice on the Mississippi, near Natchez I think, along with a statement it was i...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Drum on Carbon Tax

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Kevin Drum has a long post on the carbon tax. 
Monday, October 29, 2018

"Loose" and "Tight" or "Hot" and "Cold"

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Finished " Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World ". It's a new book getting some attention...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

The "Medicane" as Symptom of Warming

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See this Grist piece. Who knew the Mediterranean could have hurricanes?
Friday, June 30, 2017

ND Top Wheat State?

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That's what this Grist post says.  It seems KS and ND are competing, with ND top in 2 of last 3 years. Grist attributes it to global wa...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

The "Heat Island" Myth

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Don't have research to back this up, but I believe some who challenge global warming do so on the basis that urban heat islands have ske...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Proof on the Ground of Global Warming

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FiveThirtyEight has a post describing the NOAA and USDA climate maps.  There's differences in data sources and methodology as well as ...
Monday, October 31, 2016

Alaskan Ag--The Reality of Climate Change

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The skeptics of climate change challenge the accuracy of temperature graphs, so I like to find phenomena which can't be challenged, like...
Thursday, September 01, 2016

Climate Change Is Real: The Northwest Passage Cruise

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Lawyers, Guns, and Money  has a post which covers an article on a cruise ship cruising through the Northwest Passage. I follow Powerline,...
Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Corn Production Moving North?

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Stealing from this site: Schnitkey, G. "Changes in Where Corn Is Grown in the Last Ten Years." farmdoc daily (6):135, Department ...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

EU Migration and Global Warming

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Over the years there have been a few articles trying to relate climate change and various kinds of political unrest.  You'll have to tak...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

Some Forecasts Are Accurate: EPA in 1989

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Chris Clayton at DTN goes back to  a 1989 EPA "report   to Congress, "The Potential Effects of Global Climate Change on the Unit...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Global Warming Leads to War: France Versus Switzerland

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Conflict over scarce resources often gets violent: think about the Westerns with the cattlemen versus the homesteaders or the sheep ranchers...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Tidbits from John Phipps

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John has a post on global warming, noting the expansion of Canada's growing season, meaning their acreage of corn is expanding. (He sug...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Who Wins and Loses With Crop Insurance

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Farmdocdaily (IL extension) has a post on the state-level distribution of direct payments versus crop insurance.  Most states (32 of them) a...