Monthly Archives: June 2008

Land Use: How Important for Climate?

Posted on 06/11/2008 by peggy

According to the most recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, land use change has a relatively minor impact on the recent rise in global average temperature. Yet, as stressed in an earlier set of blogs on Iowa … Continue reading →

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Will there be more tropical cyclones in the future?

Posted on 06/02/2008 by peggy

At a recent meeting, someone commented to me that the “global-warming folks” must be wrong, since we haven’t had a strong hurricane season since 2005, and weren’t they saying that a warmer climate means more hurricanes? Since we had work … Continue reading →

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