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Expert says climate change will alter the Prairies

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University of Winnipeg geography professor predicts Manitoba climate will be more like Nebraska’s 
within a few decades, including weeks of plus 30 C summer days

Hurricane Sandy and the devastating Midwest drought have convinced many Americans that climate change is real, and Prairie residents may soon have reason to feel likewise, says a University of Winnipeg geography professor. “We are in climate change central in this part of North America,” Danny Blair said in a recent presentation at Ag Days.
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U.S. weather forecaster drops El Niño watch

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Reuters / The U.S. national weather forecaster has called off its El Niño watch five months after raising the alert as it is now less likely that the much-feared phenomenon that can wreak havoc on global weather will emerge. Since June, the weather forecaster had predicted that El Niño conditions, essentially a warming of waters
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Sandy’s torrential rains missed U.S. heartland

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Reuters / Recent snow, rain and cooler temperatures helped to ease suffering in some drought-stricken areas of the U.S., but others saw conditions worsen. Monster storm Sandy, which devastated the eastern U.S. with heavy rains and high winds, had little to no impact on the driest areas of the American heartland. Indeed, the worst level
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Sandy’s torrential rains missed U.S. heartland

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Reuters / Recent snow, rain and cooler temperatures helped to ease suffering in some drought-stricken areas of the U.S., but others saw conditions worsen. Monster storm Sandy, which devastated the eastern U.S. with heavy rains and high winds, had little to no impact on the driest areas of the American heartland. Indeed, the worst level
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Agriculture causes much of global warming

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Reuters / Food production accounts for up to 29 per cent of man-made greenhouse gases, twice previous UN estimates, according to a new study. The new study looked at emissions across the food system — including forest clearance, fertilizer production and transport — rather than just farming itself. But agriculture could profit by cutting its
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Flood or drought: Which should we expect?

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Recent rains have been more than welcome here in the Red River basin after a summer of drought-like conditions in much of the basin and surrounding region. Given the large floods of 1997, 2010, 2011 — and smaller floods in between — you would never have thought we would be looking so anxiously to the
Weather

The secrets behind making a long-range forecast for winter

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With winter just around the corner the various weather-forecasting companies and organizations are starting to come out with their winter forecasts. I will do a complete examination of all the different forecasts in next week’s article, as not all the forecasts are available yet. For this week I thought I would take some time to
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Drought area widens in U.S., producers are frustrated

More than 65 per cent of the contiguous United States was under at least “moderate” drought as of Sept. 25, up from 64.82 per cent a week earlier, according to the Drought Monitor, a weekly compilation of data gathered by federal and academic scientists. The portion of the United States under “exceptional” drought — the
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Monsoons ease drought fears in India

new delhi / reuters / India’s drought has abated with a late revival in monsoon rains. The June-September monsoon rains, which are crucial for the 55 per cent of India’s farmland that is rain fed, were about 12 per cent below average until the end of August. Drought typically results when rains fall 10 per

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