California stands at “ground zero” in the world of climate change, as the MacArthur grantee/genius Peter Gleick likes to say. This is not good news for forty million or so of us who live here, but for far-sighted scientists, it’s an opportunity. Gleick himself became known when as a graduate student decades ago he wroteContinue reading “Scientific prophecy in CA: A new kind of heat wave”
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Amaranth: An answer to climate change in Mexico
Strange but true: the grain that supported the Aztec empire, amaranth, also turns out to be a grain far better suited than corn for the heat waves of climate change in Mexico. As we've seen in recent years with heat waves in the Midwest, during pollination corn can be set back badly by heat waves.Continue reading “Amaranth: An answer to climate change in Mexico”
Meet the heat: 21st century to be hot, hotter, and hottest
From a new set of projections in Environmental Research Letters: "Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) we emit into the atmosphere, a new study has shown. Extreme heat waves such as those that hit the USContinue reading “Meet the heat: 21st century to be hot, hotter, and hottest”
Kit Stolz 