Weather, or Not category archive
The Fire This Time 0
Fantasy Land 0
The Seattle Times’s David Horsey recalls the film, Independence Day, and the fantasy it presented. He contrasts it with the reality of humans’ response to climate change. A snippet; much more at the link.
Horsey is not sanguine.
Nor, for that matter, am I. I fear that we are well past the tipping point.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Aside:
In the 25 years or so that I lived in the Philadelphia area, I never saw news stories like this one. The Brandywine flood a foot or two, rendering Brandywine Park in Wilmington, Del., unusable for a day or so, but flooding U. S. 1?
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
California’s Lake Oroville will no longer float your boat.
The Climates They Are a-Changing, Dam Nation Dept. 0
Lake Mead, the source of water for many cities and farms in the American west, is wasting away from what scientists have dubbed a “mega-drought.” Here’s a bit from Timothy Egan’s report:
But it’s here now, and a reservoir built to hold enough water to flood all of New York state 1 foot deep appears to be inexorably drying up.
The other day, I walked the floor of Lake Mead, a cracked and sun-baked Martian-scape that was once more than 100 feet underwater. On the horizon, the eerie geologic formations that freaked out early white explorers displayed the latest bathtub rings in the rock.
I find this somewhat disquieting.
The Mess with Texas, Reprise 0
In the Austin American-Statesman, Bridget Grumet reports from the storm and makes an observation:
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
It’s November and we’re running the bleepin’ air conditioning for Pete’s sake.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
At the Hartford Courant, Maxwell Warren warns that we have entered a new age.
Our intellect, technology, ambition and desire for a better life have propelled us forward with rapid changes. And for the last 70 years, our unsustainable lifestyle fed on increasingly greater amounts of fossil fuels.
Follow the link for more.
Icing the Cake Climate
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Thom talks with Dr. Michael Mann about how the climate seems to be warming more quickly than predicted a decade ago.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
The Las Vegas Sun reports that the Mohave desert is becoming uninhabitable for Joshua trees. (Follow the link for the full story.)
The demise of the tree would “represent the collapse of the higher-elevation Mojave Desert ecosystem,” said Patrick Donnelly, the state director for the Center for Biological Diversity. The tree provides food and shelter for many desert animals, he said.
Anyone who denies the reality of climate change is not paying attention, too stupid for words, or on the take (or some combination thereof).
(Grammar error correx.)
