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The soil created by adding charcoal and kitchen waste, at left, is visually superior to the usual red African earth on the right.
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Centuries-old African soil technique could combat climate change

Adding kitchen waste and charcoal to nutrient-poor rainforest soils makes them capable of supporting intensive farming

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A farming technique practised for centuries in West Africa, which transforms nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland, could combat climate change and revolutionize farming across the continent, researchers say. Adding kitchen waste and charcoal to tropical soil can turn it into fertile, black soil which traps carbon and reduces emissions of greenhouse gases into the
A map included in the new online climate atlas of the Prairie Climate Centre depicts the average number of +30 C days between 2051 to 2080 if a high carbon future unfolds under a ‘business-as-usual’ carbon emissions scenario.
Crops, Weather

Zooming in on climate change impacts

A new atlas outlines climate change scenarios from a local perspective

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Municipal officials and planners can now catch a glimpse of the future for their jurisdictions under different climate change scenarios. A new climate altas released by the Prairie Climate Centre (PCC) outlines how living and growing conditions in Western Canada might be affected, including a worse-case scenario showing desert-like summer heat enduring for weeks by
Due to a production error, the temperature table posted here on April 4 contained a line incorrectly identifying temperatures after 1930-39 as 15-year averages. The correct table appears here.
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A look back at historical Brandon temperatures

WMO statements on global warming aren’t borne out by local data

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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a United Nations agency, says that 2015 is the hottest year on record and that 15 of the 16 hottest years on record have been this century. What an alarming statement. Yet it is contrary to personal experience growing up and living most of my life in southwestern Manitoba. So
Brian Amiro and Karin Wittenberg look over their presentation at Crop Connect in Winnipeg.
News

Prairies to play pivotal role in future food production

Climate change will provide both challenges and opportunities for Prairie producers by the year 2050

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What will Prairie agriculture look like in the year 2050? That’s something a diverse group of experts and researchers set out to determine in a Green Paper presented at the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, titled Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050. “Our future includes change from a number of perspectives, we understand some better than others,
Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips says weather has become increasingly erratic across the globe.
Crops, Local news

Get ready for more ‘weather whiplash’

Unlike other regions, Manitoba may be able to benefit from climate change

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As climate change warms the globe, Manitoba may be well poised to become an agriculture superpower because of its proven ability to adapt, says the senior climatologist with Environment Canada. “I am optimistic about the future of agriculture in the Prairies because I have always been fascinated and intrigued with the ingenuity, resourcefulness and survivability
Let science speak without bias
Comment, Weather

Let science speak without bias

Objective, rigorous science 
stands on its own merits

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I think the Manitoba Co-operator is an advocate for the theory that observed warming over the past century is dangerous climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions partially resulting from agricultural use of fossil fuels and cattle ranching. I’m skeptical about the theory of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) but I nevertheless faithfully read what the
Weather Vane by Daniel Bezte
Weather, Weather Vane

Global and regional temperature anomalies

Globally, 2015 was the warmest year, 
at 0.9 C above the 20th-century average

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In my previous article, I finished by saying I would hopefully be able to continue our look back at 2015 by exploring some of the top weather stories from our part of the world. Between then and now, both NOAA and NASA released their 2015 global temperature data and I figured we should spend some
weather map of CHUs
Crops, Weather

Agro-climate data is a ‘mismatch’ with overall trends

Farmers need improved data on agro-climate to make sense of climate change, says U of M soil scientist

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Numbers don’t lie but they’re presently a real puzzle when it comes to making sense of climate change and what’s happening on the farm, says a University of Manitoba professor. Despite warming trends of recent years and forecasts of a continued increase, analysis of agro-climate data shows the last spring frosts are only marginally earlier,
We can expect 2015 will beat 2014 as the warmest year since reliable records began in1880.
Weather

Record warmth top weather story of 2015

El Niño’s leftovers and global warming may make 2016 yet another record-warm year

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I figured I would start our look back at 2015’s weather from a world perspective, then zoom into North America, Canada and Western Canada in particular in an upcoming article. I have to pretty much agree with the top two 2015 global weather stories chosen on nearly every website: 2015 saw earth’s hottest year in

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