Tag: Global Warming

And think of it: if planet Earth is, in fact, warming faster than ever, as some say, what’s wrong with that?

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.

and the heat underfoot is getting hotter, as if the street’s on fire, and nobody can put it out

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.

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.

“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 …”

Princeton Prof. William Happer compares carbon dioxide to Jews living during the Holocaust.

The press is in on the consumer game, hustling glamor, bewitched by fame.

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.

Athough the prognosis for our planet still does not look good, as a friend said to me recently, “life wants life.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Global warming, plastic, presidents, pain, disease, life, death…everything can be seen in another way.