Tag: climate change

Record High CO2 — Climate Scientist: ‘A reminder that climate change is not on pause in any way, shape or form’

by Cloud Gazing, Donald Trump, Environment

Just short of the Thursday noon hour here in California’s Central Valley with temperatures near 100-degrees already as we get set for another hot/hottest afternoon ahead. Not much breeze, either, which makes the heat feel even warmer despite being way-warm anyway. Notwithstanding the serial clusterfucks now swirling around us, the old stand-by/background-noise/cataclysm of climate change…

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COVID-19 and Climate Change and ‘Locust Swarms’

by Bullshit, Cloud Gazing, coronavirus, Donald Trump, Environment

Breezy Saturday afternoon in California’s Central Valley, laptop in the backyard on the glass table under the umbrella and live tapping, clicking on the outside. A good setting in our current form of environmental/health/living scenario. I can see indeed we’re in a somehow-contrived and freakish Twilight Zone episode. Big difference, though — most of those…

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‘Megadrought’ In A Time Of Virus

by Cloud Gazing, Environment, Health

Overcast and windy this early-evening Friday here in California’s Central Valley, a mostly-pleasant day overall in these peculiar times, which maybe says a lot without actually saying much at all. Oddly, and kind of scary, our current predicament does appear to fuse climatology with epidemiology in new data on our rapidly-shifting environment, socially and weather-wise.…

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Climate of the Environment: COVID-19 ‘Haunting Humans’ For Years to Come

by Bullshit, Cloud Gazing, coronavirus, Donald Trump, Environment, Health, History

My cell-phone tells me it’s Wednesday, so we’ll go with that, despite the real fact it feels like yesterday, or a week ago. In a convoluted era of surreal craziness, this is by far one nice portrayal of our human predicament (humble h/t Daily Kos): Beyond that brief bit of joy, the big picture don’t…

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COVID-19, Climate Change and Youthful Arrogance: ‘If I Get Corona, I Get Corona’

by Bullshit, Cloud Gazing, coronavirus, Environment, History, Madness

In recent years, maybe the last decade or so, climate change has so galvanized my focus on how serious a concern it is for civilization, and for everybody’s children, I used to get depressed, sad and produced a worried-anxiety off environmental, physical-science reports of Arctic/Antarctic/Greenland ice melting, record heat-related events, or whatever/wherever nature was getting…

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Tropical Forests Losing Ability to be ‘Carbon Sinks’ — New Research

by Bullshit, Cloud Gazing, Crime, Environment, Politics, Weather

(Illustration found at National Geographic). A new climate report that’s more than a little ominous — the Guardian this afternoon: Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown. The Amazon could turn into a source…

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Earth’s Beaches are Disappearing Due to Climate Change

by Bullshit, Cloud Gazing, Environment, History

In this era of a malicious-doomed apprehension, another brick in the wall — although the US is low on the lost chart, this new climate-change consequence of losing shoreline is part-n-parcel for the nowadays. Image above is an aerial view of Pismo Beach, California (found here), where I lived for way-most of the 1990s, half-a-block…

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California Drought, Again

by Bullshit, Cloud Gazing, Environment, History, Weather

Sunshine is good, but we really need rain to survive. Although our Pacific Northwest neighbors experienced drenching rainfall already this year, California has been pretty-much dry, somehow the storms missing us. Yesterday, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported almost 60-percent of the state was right now abnormally dry, an increase over the 46-percent recorded just last…

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