Weather, or Not category archive
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.
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.
