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Tag: Global Warming
POEM: Get Over It, Kids!
And think of it: if planet Earth is, in fact, warming
faster than ever, as some say, what’s wrong with that?
BOOK REVIEW: ‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’ highlights immediacy of climate crisis
Urging patience and practicality, adults theorize about the possible devastating effects of the climate crisis. But their possible tomorrows are the nightmarish likelihood of the soon-to-be present for Greta and her generation.
The Sandwich Board Man at the Corner of Bolsonaro and Fifth
and the heat underfoot is getting hotter, as if
the street’s on fire, and nobody can put it out
BCD students express determination to reverse climate change
Why Are We Striking?
Because we are hoping for change in our world. We are not striking because it is what we should do, but because it’s what we have to do. We now have no choice.
— Danny C.
Enrich the soil, cool the planet
Walter Jehne argues that entirely eliminating our reliance on fossil fuels is unfeasible, and that even if we did, it would not reverse the impacts of climate change. Instead, Jehne believes that regenerative agriculture and eco-restoration are the only ways to rebuild our soils, which he argues will dramatically cool the climate as well as reverse many of the symptoms of climate change.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ a grisly, sobering look at climate change
“It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all …”
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
Princeton Prof. William Happer compares carbon dioxide to Jews living during the Holocaust.
Poem: Conzoomerism, as the World Burns
The press is in on the consumer game,
hustling glamor, bewitched by fame.
Nick Diller weather summary: December 2018 warmer and wetter than average
That humidity translated into a very wet year with the most precipitation seen in this young century of 63.72 inches, which was nearly 20 inches more than last year and 24 inches more that the drought year of 2016.
Beyond hope or despair
Athough the prognosis for our planet still does not look good, as a friend said to me recently, “life wants life.”
Nick Diller weather summary: October 2018 warm, humid and wet
The warm, humid and wet weather did a job on the foliage, not only in the Berkshires, but also in many other locations in the Northeast.
On thin ice in the Khumbu: Global warming is melting our mountains like ice cream cones
The ice here has receded at an average of 30m/y in the past 20 years, but it has also shrunk vertically, losing up to 50m in thickness. Everest Base Camp was at 5,330m when Hillary and Tenzing climbed Mt Everest in 1953, today it is at 5,270m.
Amplifications: While you were sleeping…
In September the New York Times revealed there are even more kids in concentration camps than we knew and they are being relocated in the middle of the night to facilities that warehouse them.
Nick Diller weather summary: September 2018 — wet and warm
An article in the Washington Post sited high Atlantic Ocean temperatures in the 70s and 80s as the reason for the extreme humid conditions this summer.
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
About one-third of methane pollution is estimated to come from oil and gas operations.
SOUL SUPPORT: Seeing the same thing differently
Global warming, plastic, presidents, pain, disease, life, death…everything can be seen in another way.
BOOK REVIEW: ‘Blue Future,’ toward a water-just world
Most of us take a glass of water or a good long shower for granted. I personally learned so much from this book that I now feel guilty to throw unused water down the drain.
In spite of Trump, states and cities rally in support of Paris Climate Accord
California, New York, and Washington immediately announced the formation of the State Climate Alliance, which was soon joined by Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, Oregon, and Hawaii, Virginia, Minnesota, Delaware and Colorado.
News Brief: Gov. Charlie Baker criticizes Trump on withdrawal from climate accord
“Massachusetts is aggressively working to exceed the goals of the Paris Agreement on the state level, while growing our economy through clean energy innovation and environmental stewardship” –Gov. Charlie Baker
ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage
The withdrawal ensures that the world’s second largest emitter of greenhouse gases will quit the international effort to address dangerous global warming.
ART REVIEW: Julie Heffernan’s prophetic ‘World Without End’ at Simon’s Rock
Heffernan invites us into an imaginary world that exists somewhere between romantic landscape painting, 50’s fantasy comics, and our worst anxiety dreams.
The Real Inconvenient Truth: Capitalism clashes with climate action
Our present reality is not just that we are on the fast track to climate catastrophe. It is also that we now have an economic and political system that isn’t working too well for most people.
Climate march Sept. 21 in NYC; Berkshirites to take part
Edge correspondents Victor Feldman, the author of this story, and his Great Barrington Waldorf High School colleague Evan Seitz will be at the People’s Climate March Sunday. They will be filing their observations of the event on our Twitter feed, @BerkEdge, that is displayed on our home page as “This Just In.” On Sunday, for the duration of the demonstration, our Twitter feed will be titled “Climate March.” Please follow their accounts.
The future of food: Beyond farm to table
“It is not enough to just support the farmer; we need to support the land that supports the farmer.”
— Chef and author Daniel Barber, owner of Blue Hill Farm in Monterey