Category Archives: food

NCAR reports on a teleconnection between the Pacific and continental USA

Posted on 22 December 2016 by

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (“NCAR”) reports on a newly substantiated teleconnection between positive sea surface temperature anomalies (“SSTA”) in the Pacific and the temperatures over the continental United States (“CONUS”) 50 days later. A teleconnection is: A linkage … Continue reading →

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David Suzuki on Agroecology

Posted on 27 May 2016 by

See Feeding humanity in a warming world. Dr Suzuki links University of California, Berkeley, Professor Miguel Altieri’s “Principles and strategies for designing sustainable farming systems“.

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