I currently buy most of my groceries online from a local company FreshDirect that delivers within a 2-hour window if you place your order by 11pm the previous night. They've recently switched from delivering in boxes to using large plastic bags with rectangular bottoms and handles that can be reused probably hundreds of times. There … Continue reading Item 2: what I plan to do to help #savetheplanet
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Item 1: what I plan to do to help #savetheplanet
One of the few hopeful tidbits in the recent IPCC report (https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/08/world/ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl/index.html) is that individuals do indeed have a role to play, beyond voting for politicians willing to make the unpopular moves required. The IPCC wants us to look at three categories beyond voting: transportation, buildings, diet. I've been muttering at myself about what I can … Continue reading Item 1: what I plan to do to help #savetheplanet
One definition of stupid — rebuild in same storm-vulnerable area and at taxpayer expense
As Storms Keep Coming, FEMA Spends Billions in ‘Cycle’ of Damage and Repair Image The Plaquemines Parish Detention Center was rebuilt for $105 million in a Louisiana marsh that had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.CreditCreditEdmund D. Fountain for The New York Times By Kevin Sack and John Schwartz Oct. 8, 2018 DAVANT, La. — In the exact spot … Continue reading One definition of stupid — rebuild in same storm-vulnerable area and at taxpayer expense
Long article with bits of progress on mitigating the effects of climate change
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040 Image Harry Taylor, 6, played with the bones of dead livestock on his family’s farm in New South Wales, Australia, an area that has faced severe drought.CreditCreditBrook Mitchell/Getty Images By Coral Davenport Oct. 7, 2018 Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up … Continue reading Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040
Wind turbines may be good for more than just providing power – how about taming hurricane downpours?
Another power source far more accepted in Europe than in the US is wind turbines which are everywhere there and found here as visual blights (say what?). We should be putting these up at a fast clip together with more solar power farms. Always intrigued by articles positing additional benefit than the renewable energy they … Continue reading Wind turbines may be good for more than just providing power – how about taming hurricane downpours?
East Antarctic Ice could raise sea levels 10+ feet this century
Yet another area of the world where we haven't adequately realized the risks of global warming. Also received a squib from Axios Science noting this newly emphasized issue. https://www.ecowatch.com/antarctica-ice-sea-level-rise-2606828579.html?c Olivia Rosane Sep. 21, 2018 12:33PM EST A glacier flows towards East Antarctica. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / CC BY 2.0 Temperatures Possible This Century Could Melt … Continue reading East Antarctic Ice could raise sea levels 10+ feet this century
Climate migration just beginning from hot or coastal cities — what about the poor who can’t afford to relocate?
Altho this article forces on the need to evacuate cities that are too hot for human life. Coastal cities, particularly on the east coast of the US, are flooding as part of normal daily tides. The huge, more rain-filled hurricanes are going to finish off some of the coastal areas as habitable. The relocation of … Continue reading Climate migration just beginning from hot or coastal cities — what about the poor who can’t afford to relocate?
Phoenix residents will run from heat, others will run from tidal flooding, storm surges, and other events drowning their homes
Climate change is already here and affecting coastal residents (another book for you)
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/08/sea-level-rise-is-already-harming-americans/ Sea-level rise is already harming Americans Author Elizabeth Rush thinks it's time to start talking about it. For six years, writer Elizabeth Rush traveled the U.S., talking to people in low-lying coastal communities. The result is a new book called Rising that describes the human consequences of sea-level rise. One chapter opens with the story of … Continue reading Climate change is already here and affecting coastal residents (another book for you)
Places to read about the links between global warming and wildfires
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2018/08/on-climate-change-and-wildfire/ ARTICLE In Case You Missed it - climate change and wildfire Some suggestions for good reading on an issue getting more and more attention and concern ... wildfires. By SueEllen Campbell Wednesday, August 29, 2018 TOPICS Weather Recent Posts Climate change disasters won't be 'just' ecological As temperatures rise, wildflowers are under stress In … Continue reading Places to read about the links between global warming and wildfires
Very strange lake in the Arctic — unique or the first of many?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/arctic-lakes-are-bubbling-and-hissing-with-dangerous-greenhouse-gases/?utm_term=.c729f9c91ca3 Lots of graphics, so click thru for a fascinating read.
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