This photo taken from the international space station while orbiting above the Pacific Ocean lays to rest the argument the earth is flat. Can we get past that now, huh? Okay. Next on the agenda: Human influence on earth’s climate. “Stability in Earth’s climate hinges on a delicate [...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
July 16th, 2021 - 2:12 am § in Environment, Science
A brief history of climate disasters that collapsed civilizations
“The climate system is an angry beast, and we are poking it with sticks.” “All of recorded human history … has played out in perhaps the most stable climate window of the past 650,000 years. We have been shielded from the climate’s violence by our short … memory, and … [...]
Calling climate change “B.S.” doesn’t make it less real
Sen. Ron Johnson (photo, left; bio here), a Republican from Wisconsin, who is arguably the most factually-challenged member of that body in addition to being a liar (“the rioters were just tourists”), “insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier,” but CNN [...]
June 17th, 2021 - 10:23 am § in Environment
Is Hoover dam becoming obsolete?
Sure looks like it. It’s simple math. Lake Mead’s surface elevation is 1,071 feet, and is dropping by 20 feet a year; when it reaches 895 feet, no water comes out at the bottom of the dam. That means the Colorado River dries up and Hoover Dam stops generating electricity 9 years from no[...]
GOP rep. suggests changing earth’s orbit to solve climate crisis
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), colloquially known as “America’s Dumbest Congressman” (for good reasons, as will be seen below), said in a congressional committee hearing on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, “I was informed by the immediate past director of NASA that they’ve found that the moo[...]
May 28th, 2019 - 3:57 pm § in Donald Trump, Environment
IRRESPONSIBLE!
Trump escalates his war against climate science After two years of undoing the policies of his predecessor, President Trump is launching a new all-out assault against climate science, the New York Times reports: “In the next few months, the White House will complete the rollback of the most si[...]
September 9th, 2018 - 9:38 pm § in Environment
Airport of the future
Rarely mentioned or thought about in connection with climate change and sea level rise is the fact that many of the world’s major airports — including most of those serving coastal cities — are barely above sea level, on low-lying ground adjacent to the ocean, and will be inundated[...]
May 7th, 2016 - 8:22 am § in Uncategorized
‘What climate change looks like’
That’s the CNN headline this morning. Hot, dry, windy conditions have created a massive firestorm that’s consuming hundreds of square miles in Alberta’s oil sands region. “The fire raging in Fort McMurray, Canada sounds like something from the apocalypse,” CNN says. [...]
Halstead: An Objective View of Global Warming
My impressions: The announcement of 5-year periodic UN-sponsored political meetings on climate change [in the spirit of the similar IPCC scientific process] may be the principal beneficial outcome of the COP process. Oddly, too much time was spent on limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5 d[...]