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Fall field work was still underway in many areas of the province under record-high temperatures last Sunday, including along Mountain Road just east of Erickson. Projections from the new Winnipeg-based Prairie Climate Centre suggest this could be a more common mid-November sight in future.

Atlas showing future climate change under development

An online resource of maps and data will help planners adapt to climate change

By Lorraine Stevenson November 20, 2015

Growing conditions on the Canadian Prairies will be very different if global warming trends continue — but how different? A new series of online maps offers a glimpse of the length of season, temperature changes and rainfall farmers in the not-so-distant future could face under various scenarios. The maps are part of a ‘climate atlas’

Comment, Crops, Opinion

Plants may run out of time to grow under climate change

Canada is among the few regions that could see increased production under global warming

By University Of Hawaii At Manoa June 23, 2015

A key potential ‘benefit’ of global warming — namely, that plants at northern latitudes will thrive in a warmer world — is challenged by a new study released by University of Hawaii’s scientists. The prevailing assumption ignores the fact that plants in the North will remain limited by solar radiation, curbing positive effects of warming

Crops

Climate Atlas proposed as long-term planning tool

University of Winnipeg climatologist Danny Blair wants everyone to have accessible information through an easy-to-read mapping database called the Climate Atlas of Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson February 6, 2015

A University of Winnipeg climatologist and a small team of researchers are working to develop high-quality maps they say will project what sort of climate agro-Manitoba is likely to have in the next half-century. The Climate Atlas of Manitoba will be a set of accessible, easy-to-understand data, based and calculated on past trends and future

people on a beach protesting climate change

International news

Study finds farmers and scientists divided over climate change

Focusing on the cause tends to polarize and politicize the discussion, which delays adaptation

By Purdue University Release November 24, 2014

Crop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities shows. Associate professor of natural resource social science, Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011-12 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation

Did you know?, News

Odds slim to none that global warming natural

It doesn’t matter how you cut the numbers,  human activity is behind it

By Mcgill University Release April 16, 2014

An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the Earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor, Shaun Lovejoy. The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new

Keeling curve graph showing rising CO2 levels.

Weather

CO2 levels highest in over three million years

Temperatures may keep rising for decades after this level is hopefully stabilized

By Daniel Bezte March 25, 2014

Atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) levels on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa hit a record high of 401 parts per million earlier this month, and as we are still a month or so away from peak CO2 levels, this record will likely be broken. Just what does this mean? Let’s start off be looking at the

Crops

Wild weather puts climate back on global agenda

Kerry says climate change a ‘weapon of mass destruction’

By Alister Doyle, Nina Chestney March 11, 2014

Bitter cold in the United States might appear to contradict the notion of global warming, but with Britain’s wettest winter and Australia’s hottest summer, extreme weather events have pushed climate change back on the political agenda. A spluttering world economy had sapped political interest in the billion-dollar shifts from fossil fuels that scientists say are

Weather

Record CO2: What does it mean?

By Daniel Bezte May 15, 2013

It’s amazing what a little cold weather can do to people’s minds. Even after studies have come out indicating that, among active climate scientists, 97 per cent agree the current global warming we are seeing is human induced, and that these basic conclusions have been endorsed by more than 40 scientific societies and academies of

Crops, Weather

New models predict drastically greener Arctic in coming decades

April 9, 2013

New research predicts that rising temperatures will lead to a massive “greening,” or increase in plant cover, in the Arctic. In a paper published on March 31 in Nature Climate Change, scientists reveal new models projecting that wooded areas in the Arctic could increase by as much as 50 per cent over the next few

Did you know?, News

Saving the planet by working less

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff February 28, 2013

Adopting the European approach of ‘more time off,  less stuff’ could help mitigate climate change

Recently released research finds that significant reductions in carbon emissions are possible through reducing work hours, and that could help to reduce climate change. The paper, Reduced Work Hours as a Means of Slowing Climate Change, by David Rosnick of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), finds that eight to 22 per cent

Daily Network News

China rapeseed meal futures see largest one-day gain in almost three months after Xi–Carney talks

U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

U.S. grains: Soy futures post biggest monthly gain in nearly five years on China trade optimism

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