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One of the things I’ve been puzzling over lately is why so many agronomists and others in agriculture seem to have the mantra that July ra...

Quantitative estimates of the potential impacts of future climate change are an important input to policy discussions, and researchers acro...

If you ever want to scare an economist, the two words "omitted variable" will usually do the trick. I was not trained in an econ...

A growing literature in paleoclimate and archeology explores the extent to which past fluctuations in climate have shaped the evolution of ...

Last week at AGU I gave a talk about the lessons of the US corn harvest in 2011 and 2012, both of which were below trend line (see figure)...

My coauthor Kyle Meng was asked to participate in this HuffPost Live discussion about climate, food prices and civil conflict . It's an...

Do you ever get jealous of Wolfram's pretty graphs on this blog  or just want to know what March rainfall will look like in New Zealand ...

In one of the most emailed NYTimes articles from last week , it was reported that there are now more software engineers in the US (about a ...

A quick post on an interesting article in Bloomberg last week about expansion of corn in Canada. I’ve been keeping an eye out for storie...

Andrew Revkin asked what I thought about this recent PNAS article: Climate variability and conflict risk in East Africa, 1990–2009 J...