Move from lots of pollution to a beautiful clean sky. Very ugly way to get there, but the earth is getting a breather from the humans torturing the land and sky.
Rising ocean acidity tips delicate balance | TBO.com: There are lots of reasons to be concerned about rising ocean acidity. If it kills one year’s generation of oysters, that is disquieting. If it starts to kill of the next year, and the next year, that is a disaster. The kill off of the ocean reefs, pretty much world-wide, is in part because of ocean acidifciation. An estimate of 10% of ocean reefs are dead with…
NASA, NOAA Find 2014 Warmest Year in Modern Record | NASA This is a good recap of the tie in to record warming with human activity. It also give links the the raw data and the detailed methodology. Anybody want to play with the raw, unadulterated data, you will find a LOT of it; and no matter which way you look at it trend line appears. And the trend line is very depressing. BUT… This…
— Article 2 of 2: The Intergenerational Betrayal — With COP30 now concluded in BelĂ©m, the global consensus on climate action faces a moment of reckoning. The final outcome—while preserving multilateral cooperation—fell short of transformational commitments, most notably by omitting any agreement to phase out fossil fuels. As Article 1 established, collective efforts remain aligned with a dangerous 2.3 to 2.8 degrees Celsius trajectory (AP News, 2025; UN, 2023), widening the distance between scientific necessity…
13 of 14 warmest years on record occurred in 21st century – UN | Environment | theguardian.com: Ouch. As you look at the clock, you will see that we are only 14 years into the 21st Century. Yet we have 13 of the hottest 14 years in recorded history. You do have to take the whole of the earth into account, obviously, not just the USA, where we were ?fortunate? enough to have a exceptionally…
Sadly, 2015 was really hot. Record hot. And it set a record for breaking the record (set last year in 2014). Ouch, ouch and double ouch!. This was a wicked El Nino year. Only an El Nino year last century competes with the hottest 14 years this century. Apparently, the follow through from El Nino starting in 2015 should leave 2016 as a rather hot year. One of the best summations on the subject came…
More than three in four Americans believe in global warming – UPI.com: Finally. Even republicans have shifted to a majority accepting climate change. This is not a party thing; this is a human thing. Once people start to realize that the earth is warming. And that people are generally responsible. There tends to be a some obvious actions that we all must do, soon or later. Sustainability is a law of nature that it is…
