At the Iowa Climate Science Educators' Forum last week, a group of more than 150 scientists representing 36 colleges and universities around Iowa released a statement of action concerning future climate change. Calling climate change a "rising challenge to Iowa agriculture," this year's Iowa Climate Statement says that changing weather patterns and an increase in extreme events has put the state's ability to grow food at risk.
The researchers, who gathered at Drake University in Des Moines, note that Iowa has vacillated between two weather extremes over the past few years. The state went…
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