Weather, or Not category archive
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.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Will Bunch struggles with Republicans’ crusade against dealing with, or even admitting the reality of, climate change.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Earlier this week I linked to a news report about how sea level rise due to climate change is causing the salinization of farmland. Yesterday brought came a another story about salt-water encroachment in a completely different location. A snippet:
But sea-level rise fueled by warmer oceans and sinking land is pushing saltwater ever closer to the trees, with the potential to kill them in the not-so-distant future.
The Diet of Worms 0
In related news, my local rag has a long Washington Post article about how sea-level rise and result salt infusion in groundwater is rendering some coastal farmlands infertile.