This photo is a bit unfair, because St. Mark’s Square isn’t always underwater, only during the seasonal high tides. And the flooding isn’t solely caused by sea level rise due to climate change; the ground under the city is sinking. Read why here. But what you see here is perhaps sy[...]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
September 15th, 2022 - 2:58 pm § in Environment, Politics
Why nobody respects Congress
To keep this post readably short, I won’t go over the long history of colorful and vile characters who’ve served in Congress at one time or another. I’ll just say voters can elect anybody they want to, and sometimes do, and let it go at that. And also that polls through the years h[...]
Technically, nobody is too stupid to be a U.S. senator
Seriously, the only qualifications to be a U.S. senator are you must “have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and … when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State …” (U.S. Const., Art. I, §3). The Framers intentionally gave[...]
August 21st, 2022 - 11:07 pm § in China, Environment
China’s rivers are drying up, too
In China, the Yangtze River’s water levels “have been falling rapidly due to a drought and a heatwave in China’s southwestern region,” CNN says (read story here). “Rainfall in the Yangtze basin has been around 45% lower than normal,” CNN said. “As many as 66[...]
U.K.’s 2050 climate is here now
“Two years ago,” CNN reports, “forecasters in the UK conducted an interesting thought experiment: What will our forecasts look like in 2050?” Meteorologists at the U.K.’s official weather agency produced “super long-range climate models in the sum[...]
Here’s GOP candidate’s “proof” evolution isn’t real
“At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not?” No. Science never said “man came from apes.” But that’s what GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker told a congregation on Sunday, March 13, 2022 (story here), adding for good measure, “If that is true” (it i[...]
February 25th, 2022 - 12:15 am § in Environment, Politics
Oklahoma GOP Sen. Imhofe to retire
Sen. Jim Imhofe (R-OK), 87, who was re-elected to a 5th term in 2020, is expected to announce this weekend he will resign at the end of this year so his successor can be elected this coming November (see story here). Imhofe previously had said he wouldn’t run for reelection in 2026. He plans t[...]
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” &#[...]
Beef prices are soaring. Is that bad?
“Meatflation” is here. “Startlingly high” beef prices “are appearing in meat aisles across the country,” the tabloid Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, which is blaming supply chain backlogs, staffing shortages in processing plants, and social dista[...]