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Spring Timing: Global Warming Phenomena

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published May 2, 2016 at 9:00 AM EDT

Study after study continues to document the phenomena of accelerated global warming. This research also brings to light new understanding of just how complex the earth's climate systems are and how unpredictable the consequences can be. What is known for sure is that global warming will not, contrary to intuition, lead to warmer weather everywhere all the time, just as it will not necessarily result in wetter or drier conditions everywhere.

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Kelby Ouchley

Kelby was a biologist and manager of National Wildlife Refuges for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. He has worked with alligators in gulf coast marshes and Canada geese on Hudson Bay tundra. His most recent project was working with his brother Keith of the Louisiana Nature Conservancy on the largest floodplain restoration project in the Mississippi River Basin at the Mollicy Unit of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, reconnecting twenty-five square miles of former floodplain forest back to the Ouachita River.

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