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From the local paper (Changing climates means changing ski season): Snowfall in the High Country is around 25 percent less than the long-term average, according to data from local meteorologist Ray Russell of Ray’s Weather Center. However, local ski resorts only need to maintain cold temperatures for a successful season. Kimberly Jochl, vice president of…
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Warning: NSFW (Unless you work at a University and part of your job is to watch stuff like this and post it on a blog). The highlights of this have been around all week, but most of the clips are just Bill Nye the Science Guy saying "motherf***ers. But this segment on Last Week Tonight…
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Hi! I am glad to have gotten an invitation from John to guest-blog here. I am an Associate Professor of economics at the Andrew Young School at Georgia State University. My research on environmental economics is in solar geoengineering, health effects of air pollution and climate change, behavioral economics, and some other stuff. I teach…
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Just got around to reading the Hsiang et al piece in Science on the inequitable economics impacts of climate change. Here's the abstract: Estimates of climate change damage are central to the design of climate policies. Here, we develop a flexible architecture for computing damages that integrates climate science, econometric analyses, and process models. We…
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Weather changes all the time; climate is the average line. Yes!! Great song. Well done Michelle Jewell. https://t.co/gZgkNlUcQW — Charles Kolstad (@CharlesKolstad) March 14, 2016 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
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A bit late but still: Warning that Hurricane Joaquin was expected to produce powerful winds, violent swells, and dangerous rip currents, the National Weather Service strongly advised Americans today not to go surfing unless they could really shred that shit. “As Joaquin gains strength and begins to approach the Eastern Seaboard, we would like to…
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My wife wanted a picture of the rainbow over our house. This is it. Our house is the one in the middle. Behind the trees.
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After 4 inches of rain this week, the end is in sight. Photo Credit: My iPhone 6
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From the inbox: All classes that meet before 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, are now cancelled. Classes that meet at 2 p.m. and later will meet as scheduled. If this decision changes, notification will be sent by noon. The adverse weather policy is in effect for staff employees, as follows: 1. Mandatory employees should report/remain at…
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