Weather, or Not category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Thom suggests that the damage isn’t collateral.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
inside a larger story about a house fire on North Carolina’s Outer Banks is a warning that the climates they are a-changing, and they’re coming for all of us:
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
Thom discusses a PragerU video that, in addition to being a lie, is a classic case of projection.
The Fire This Time 0
Afterthought;
Yesterday, we finally got a break from two weeks of oppressive heat.
I must say, I cannot remember a heat wave which felt so oppressive as this one. I’ve been known to ride my bicycle in 90s Fahrenheit weather and still enjoy the ride, but this time I stuck to the inside bike.
I am not sanguine.
I fear we are well past the tipping point.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Current events do not give cause for complacency.
Dinosaurs Redux 0
I saw pick-up truck yesterday with a bumper sticker reading, “This vehicle is fueled by recycled dinosaurs.”
I thought of that when I saw Brian Greenspun’s column in The Las Vegas Sun. He notes that temperatures in Vegas and around the world are breaking records and argues that dinosaurs are still with us. A bit of his article:
That is if the dinosaurs of today — let’s call them the elected leaders who insist on doing the bidding of the carbon-based industries around the globe — will start making decisions designed to prolong life rather than shorten or downright end it!
Personally, I am somewhat less than optimistic.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Meanwhile, a Kansas Republican wants to have his cake and eat it too.
The Climates They Are a-Changing . . . 0
. . . and threats from climate-change deniers drove this TV meteorologist to leave has job. Here’s a bit frome the story in the Des Moines Register:
Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke 0
Many of the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states have been under air quality warnings because of smoke from wildfires in Quebec. Yesterday, we could smell the smoke and see the haze, though we are hundreds of miles south of the Canadian border (today, the air is clearer, but the warnings are still in effect). This is unprecedented in my experience, and I’ve lived in this general area my entire life.
Yet, as Michael in Norfolk points out, Republicans continue to pretend that climate change isn’t.
