Weather, or Not category archive
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
And so are the tactics to keep anything from being done about it.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Not to mention that we no longer have spring or fall in these parts. We just go right from summer into winter into summer again.
I fear we are well past the tipping point.
Misdirection Play, Climate Crisis Dept. 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Gwynne Dyer reveals industry’s latest tactic to avoid action on carbon emissions. A snippet:
Time for another change of strategy by the fossil fuel industries and their allies. If they can no longer hope to discredit the science or confuse the public about the evidence, maybe they can at least deflect and divert the pressure for effective action on climate change on to targets that do not directly threaten the sales of their products.
Follow the link for the evidence.
A Map of the Future . . . 0
. . . and it ain’t pretty.
And that leaves out the middle of the North America, which in prehistoric times was a sea.
I believe that we are well past the tipping point, and I fear for my children.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Siberia is thawing out, and it’s not pleasant. Here’s a bit from the story:
“It smells like dead bodies,” Danilov said.
“They Can’t Handle the Truth” 0
The low last night was in the low 70 Fahenheits, today’s high is forecast for the 80s. That’s the forecast for the rest of the week. On the last weekend of September and the first week of October.
I grew up in these parts. Back then, by this time of year, I’d be wearing at least a windbreaker to go outside, not shorts and a tee shirt
This is not normal, or perhaps it’s the new abnormal . . . .
The Bully’s Pulpit 0
At AL.com, Mike Oliver responds on Michael Knowles, who went on Fox News to claim that Greta Thunberg is mentally ill. A snippet:
Aside from the fact that her mental status had nothing to do with the climate change debate at hand, you were attacking a 16-year-old.
The Climates They Are a-Changing 0
Methinks this has some Bering on the climate news.
Dorian Deeds 0
Despite the narrative from the Weather Channel, my newspaper delivery person somehow managed to deliver my newspaper.
Afterthought:
This is in no way to disparage those who have suffered damage from the storm.
It is in every way to contemn the hysterical Dorian hurricane porn perpetrated by televised media.
The Weather Channel 0
Give me a break.
Indeed, I was on the phone with an associate today and asked him what he thought about the Weather Channel. He said, “They just want to get people upset.”
Me, I can’t stomach the Weather Channel for more than 15 minutes at a time (unless it’s snowstorm pictures–and then it’s the pictures, not the channel).
A short synopsis of today’s hurricane coverage:
“It’s chaos here in Charleston, South Carolina! Look! A tree has been blown over!”
Fifteen minutes later:
“It’s chaos here in Charleston, South Carolina! Look! A tree has been blown over!”
And it’s the same damned tree.
In other news, it’s looks like we’re going to get off easy on this one.
Climate Change Inaction 0
Thom wonders why our media refuse to connect the dots between climate change and the increase in violent weather.
Consistent with what Thom is saying, the news here right now is all Dorian all the time.
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.
