When you can still get something for them. “Skiing is not going to exist, winter sports are not going to exist if we continue down this path” of global warming, Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn believes. While she says if, let’s not kid ourselves, greedy humans aren’t going to save the pla[...]
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January 16th, 2022 - 11:41 pm § in Environment, Misc.
Tonga tsunami in California (video)
A tsunami from a massive underwater volcanic eruption in Tonga on Friday, January 14, 2022, struck the California coast the next day after traveling over 5,000 miles. This wave isn’t water from Tonga, it’s California water. In a tsunami or other wave, the water doesn’t travel, only[...]
January 7th, 2022 - 6:56 pm § in Environment, Misc.
San Diego freeway sea lion
A sea lion was rescued from a San Diego freeway median strip 4 miles inland from the bay on Friday morning, January 7, 2020 (read story here). While wandering sea lions are fairly common in that area, this one really gets around: “This sea lion has a history of adventurous travels, SeaWorld s[...]
December 23rd, 2021 - 12:06 am § in Environment, Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Antarctica
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December 22nd, 2021 - 11:07 pm § in Environment
Ruining our national parks
Many of America’s most magnificent tracts of real estate are preserved as national parks and monuments. The crowds have never been bigger. The Covid-19 pandemic drove people denied admittance to theaters, stadiums, and shows into the Great Outdoors. It’s not pretty. “The hey-let’[...]
December 15th, 2021 - 8:48 pm § in Environment
Boom! Sea level could jump 10 feet!
“An Antarctic ice shelf could crack and disintegrate within the next decade, allowing a Florida-sized glacier to slide into the ocean and raising sea levels by feet, scientists warned” on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 (read story here). “New research … suggests the final colla[...]
December 14th, 2021 - 10:30 am § in Economics, Environment
When construction lumber should be subsidized
Particle board and other lumber products are a lot more expensive than pre-pandemic, but that’s not why I’m posting about this. California has a wildfire problem, and the world has a climate change problem. A partial — and I emphasize only partial — contribution toward solvin[...]
December 2nd, 2021 - 9:51 pm § in Environment
America’s power grid is unready for climate change
Expect power outages to happen more frequently. With Enron not around anymore taking electricity customers hostage, most outages are caused by weather events, which are becoming more frequent and extreme due to climate change. America’s power grid isn’t prepared for that. Weather takes o[...]
Arizona GOP sues to keep out climate change
Faced with irrefutable proof of climate change — the proof of their own eyes — Republicans no longer deny it’s happening. Now, their battle has shifted to keeping it out of their states. By preventing people from elsewhere bringing it with them. For example, when the Arizona attorn[...]
Major cities hire “chief heat officers”
Here in Seattle, we sweltered through prolonged 100-degree-plus heat last summer, and I began joking to friends about buying Arctic beachfront property while it’s available. The warming Arctic is no joke, though. Seattle isn’t one of the cities hiring “chief heat officers” &#[...]