Weather, or Not category archive
Legacy 0
Faye Flam notes that some would call the current geological epoch the “Anthropocene”; she argues that they have a point. A nugget:
That’s no brag, because most of the changes we’re making to our planet are embarrassing.
We’ve caused huge shifts in the plants and animals sharing the planet with us, driven many species to extinction, left a layer of radioactive fallout from exploding nuclear bombs, accidentally changed the composition of our atmosphere, and left a layer of plastic that will in all likelihood still be around in a million years.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of my local rag is not sanguine.
Nor am I.
Indeed, as I may have mentioned before, I think we are well past the tipping point.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
And not at a glacial rate . . . .
(Mike is so upset that he almost forgets to swear.)
In the Forecast: A Storm of Stupid 0
Farron marvels at Donald Trump’s claim that a cleaner environment will somehow harm poor and minority persons.
Objectiveng to Science
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At the Bangor Daily News, Basav Sen of the Climate Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies outlines the Trump administration’s war on science. A snippet:
Last November, when a report by government scientists contradicted Trump’s position and showed that the United States will suffer devastating consequences from climate change, the president simply declared that reality was irrelevant. “I don’t believe it” was his response.
