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When will Niagara Falls Completely Freeze?
When will Niagara Falls Completely Freeze? It has been a bitterly cold season. Niagara Falls became a winter wonderland as frigid temperatures cause the falls to turn to ice. This is not so rare as people claim. In this 1911 photo of the Great Freeze, you can still see water flowing, but minimal and nowhere near […]
Weather Channel: “It’s Been One Of The Most Miserable Starts To Winter On Record”
Weather Channel: “It’s Been One Of The Most Miserable Starts To Winter On Record” Across the Northeast, Midwest, and Plains, it has been one of the coldest and snowiest starts to the winter season on record. “Winter has gotten off to a fast start across a majority of the United States, particularly across the Northeast. Early season […]
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See
Here’s the Dire Climate Report the Trump White House Didn’t Want You to See “The decision to release this damning report when families are beginning to celebrate the holidays and newsrooms are short-staffed is a brazen attempt to bury the truth.” A house burns during the Woolsey Fire on November 9, 2018 in Malibu, California. […]
Weather Disasters: Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict
Weather Disasters: Climate Change and the Potential for Conflict Photo Source U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | CC BY 2.0 East Island was an uninhabited remote island in the Hawaiian chain, but it was an important refuge for wildlife: Many of the endangered Hawaiian monk seals numbering about 1400 raised their young on that island; […]
‘Dirt to Soil’ – How to make money in farming and save the planet
‘Dirt to Soil’ – How to make money in farming and save the planet Gabe Brown, the author of Dirt to Soil, farms near Bismarck in the US state of North Dakota, not far from the Canadian border. Unusual weather events often spell bad news for farmers, but anyone hit by hailstorms and a severe […]
The New Politics of Climate Change
The New Politics of Climate Change As climate change accelerates, the political environment will start to boil. It’s happening already. More and more ordinary people are beginning to connect the dots between extreme weather, rising climate related death tolls, collapsing ecosystems, refugee/resource crises, and other grave anomalies. The political outcome of all this will either […]
UK growers warn of shortages of onions, potatoes and other vegetables after extreme weather decimates crops
UK growers warn of shortages of onions, potatoes and other vegetables after extreme weather decimates crops Onion crop down by half and potatoes down by a third after summer heatwave Vegetable yields have fallen by as much as 50 per cent in some parts of the UK, following a year of extreme weather events. Farmers […]
The Summer of No Return
The Summer of No Return Photo Source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 The forecast for August 8th was ominous. The temperature in Portland was predicted to breach 100 hundred degrees for the second time in a couple weeks. In the end, the mercury stalled at 96 degrees because the sun was blotted […]
September the Coldest Month in a Decade – Must be Global Warming
September the Coldest Month in a Decade – Must be Global Warming It is not looking very good for the winter ahead. A reader from Calgary sent this picture in about the early snowfall up there. Indeed, Calgary just experienced the Snowiest Day in More Than Three Decades. It Broke an October Snowfall Record. Of course, […]
A Child at World’s End
A Child at World’s End “I don’t want to live in a world without cheetahs, Mom.” Seamus loves cheetahs and what’s not to love — unless you are a Thomson’s gazelle? Cheetahs are the fastest mammals on the planet, formidable predators, sleek, saucy looking, and they even have spots. My six-year-old boy can’t imagine a […]
Japan Braces For Typhoon Trami: ‘Life Threatening Impacts’
Japan Braces For Typhoon Trami: ‘Life Threatening Impacts’ As Japan braces for typhoon Trami, weather experts are warning that this storm could have “life-threatening impacts” when it hits. Trami will slam into the Ryukyu Islands and barrel into mainland Japan with destructive winds, flooding rain, and an inundating storm surge Friday night into Monday. According […]
Florence is not the ‘new normal’. We’ve destroyed normal forever.
Florence is not the ‘new normal’. We’ve destroyed normal forever. If each new decade brings its own unique, ever-worsening climate disasters, there won’t be any new norms for a long, long time. HURRICANE FLORENCE FLOODS A LOCAL BUSINESS ON SEPTEMBER 16 IN WILMINGTON, NC. CREDIT: MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES You’ve probably seen the term “new normal” […]
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety
Psychologists explain our climate change anxiety “You cannot have a healthy society that is scared.” A MEMBER OF THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD IS SEEN REFLECTED IN THE WINDOW OF A HOUSE AS HE WADES THROUGH FLOOD WATERS FOR A WELLNESS CHECK ON CITIZENS WHO CHOOSE TO STAY IN THEIR HOME IN THE AFTERMATH OF […]
The Power of the Anthropocene
The Power of the Anthropocene Photo Source Doc Searls | CC BY 2.0 “So we are left with a stark choice: allow climate disruption to change everything about our world, or change pretty much everything about our economy to avoid that fate. But we need to be very clear: because of our decades of collective […]
The U.S. just suffered the hottest May-June-July on record
The U.S. just suffered the hottest May-June-July on record Death Valley had the hottest average monthly temperature for any recording station in the world, 108.1 degrees F. THE CONTINENTAL US JUST SUFFERED THE HOTTEST MAY-JUNE-JULLY ON RECORD. CREDIT: NOAA If you found yourself thinking it was scorching hot in recent weeks, well, you were right. […]
