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Climate change could hit Atlanta hardest, UGA research predicts
Posted by Online Athens: Lee Shearer on April 13th, 2013
Online Athens: The effects of climate change in Georgia might fall hardest on Atlanta and coastal counties, according to a University of Georgia graduate student’s research.
Binita KC, a doctoral candidate in UGA’s Department of Geography, mapped changing climate variables county by county, noting factors such as how much precipitation levels and temperatures have varied from historical averages, along with extreme weather measures -- flood, drought and heat waves.
Then she added in measures of so-called...
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Southeastern farmers might benefit from climate change
Posted by Online Athens: Lee Shearer on September 7th, 2012
Online Athens: Farmers in Georgia and other southeastern states might actually benefit as the world’s atmosphere heats up in the first part of the 21st century.
“I think we’re really in good shape for the long term, compared to some parts of the country,” said University of Georgia agricultural climatologist Pam Knox. “The Southeast is really well positioned for the future in terms of climate change.”
Knox and two other climatologists recently interviewed state climatologists across the region to get their...