Scientists use tree rings, ice cores, and coral reefs to reconstruct Earth’s climate history because they act as time capsules. A tree-ring study published in Nature, a scientific journal, on May 14, 2024, concluded 2023 was the warmest year in “at least” 2,000 years (read CNN stor[...]
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May 5th, 2024 - 11:55 am § in Environment
Map: Where cicadas will strike next
(Click on map to enlarge; see story here.) As a side note, will South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem name her next dog “Cicada” before shooting it? (If you haven’t heard about her dog Cricket, go here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 5th, 2024 - 11:34 am § in Business, Environment
The wind didn’t knock out your power
When it’s windy and the lights go out, you may assume a tree limb fell on a powerline somewhere in your neighborhood. Not necessarily. The electric utility may have deliberately cut power. It’s a tactic to prevent fires in the dry windy conditions that are becoming increasingly prevalent[...]
May 3rd, 2024 - 2:04 am § in Environment
Climate change is a hoax dep’t
“Climate change is steadily raising sea levels around the world, but the Gulf of Mexico is rising faster than almost anywhere else in the world,” an article in the UK-based tabloid Daily Mail said on Friday, May 3, 2024 (read it here; see map below). “Ocean levels are at least si[...]
June 7th, 2023 - 2:30 am § in Environment, Misc.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Smoke
What the Statue of Liberty looked like on June 6, 2023, because of Canadian wildfires. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
May 9th, 2023 - 4:20 am § in Environment
When the Big One hits, run like hell
A disaster “the size of multiple Katrinas” is brewing off Washington’s coast. “Katrina,” of course, is the Category 5 hurricane that leveled New Orleans in 2005, killing nearly 1,400 people. The lurking monster in the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, w[...]
April 15th, 2023 - 9:41 pm § in Environment
Eagle trying to hatch rock now a dad
Through sleigh-of-hand by his keepers, a bald eagle at a wildlife sanctuary who was trying to hatch a rock is now a dad. They slipped a baby eaglet into his pen, and naturally an eagle who doesn’t know a rock from an egg thinks the eaglet is his hatchling, and is feeding it and looking [&helli[...]
April 15th, 2023 - 1:52 am § in Environment
Still in denial about climate change?
March 2023 was the 529th consecutive month of above-normal planetary temperatures, using the 2oth century average as a baseline (see story here). You can see that global warming is happening; ice is melting all over the world: Mountain glaciers, Arctic Ocean ice cover, the Greenland ice cap, Antarct[...]
March 1st, 2023 - 3:00 am § in Environment, Misc.
How to stay warm in Siberia (video)
The Nenets (nomadic reindeer herder) people (read about them here) have been doing it for hundreds of years. Watch the video below to find out how. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
February 15th, 2023 - 6:36 pm § in Environment, Politics
Florida won’t be a state in a few years
It’ll be a reef. Disney World will be gone, but it’s on the way out anyway, Gov. DeSantis having declared it “woke.” On the bright side, Congress will be rid of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and there’ll be two fewer Republican senators. “Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday [...]