Rather awesome.
Month: June 2024
Another First: Beryl a Cat 4 Now
“Stunning and Unprecedented” Beryl a Dangerous Category 3
UPDATE:
Projected to be a Cat 4 by monday.
FOX Weather hurricane specialist Bryan Norcross analyzes.
Oh Poop. Floodwaters Overwhelming Infrastructure on Missouri River
“They said the last time that it wouldn’t happen again, and it’s happening again.”
Omaha and Council Bluffs, sewer overflow due to excess storm water. Historical infrastructure unable to cope with new climate-altered conditions.
Humble problems that we thought we knew how to solve re-emerging as critical, and expensive, adaptation issues.
Supreme’s New Chevron Decision is a Worse than You Think
Good simple explanation above. This is bad.
This makes Dobbs seem like a minor glitch in the matrix.
By the way, all you third party voters who thought you were being so smart, morally pure and superior by voting for Ralph Nader in 2000, and Jill Stein in 2016?
Fuck you all the way off.
This week’s SCOTUS decision overturning the long recognized “Chevron
Doctrine” is the most consequential, certainly since the Dobbs decision that invalidated Roe v Wade, but in some respects, even more far reaching.
It has implications for the air we breath, the food we eat, the water we drink, and our ability to maintain a livable planet.
So if you haven’t read Democracy in Chains yet, do so, and let the lightbulbs go off.
Continue reading “Supreme’s New Chevron Decision is a Worse than You Think”“Nobody Alive Has Seen Anything Like This” – Record Rains Have Big Downstream Impacts
Flooding continues to worsen in the nation’s breadbasket as record rains continue.
Farm wonks may watch the whole 8 minute vid, but the first 2 or 3 minutes will give you the gist. Recent rains, more intense than any in this Iowa-based expert’s memory, are not just drowning crops, but washing huge amounts of nutrients out of soils across the corn belt, down the Mississippi, and into the Gulf of Mexico’s nutrient-polluted “Dead Zone”.
Double whammy. Farm production impacted, pollution multiplied, with serious impacts to human and ecological health.
US Environmental Protection Agency:
Too much nitrogen and phosphorus in the water causes algae to grow faster than ecosystems can handle. Significant increases in algae harm water quality, food resources and habitats, and decrease the oxygen that fish and other aquatic life need to survive. Large growths of algae are called algal blooms and they can severely reduce or eliminate oxygen in the water, leading to illnesses in fish and the death of large numbers of fish. Some algal blooms are harmful to humans because they produce elevated toxins and bacterial growth that can make people sick if they come into contact with polluted water, consume tainted fish or shellfish, or drink contaminated water.
Nutrient pollution in ground water – which millions of people in the United States use as their drinking water source – can be harmful, even at low levels. Infants are vulnerable to a nitrogen-based compound called nitrates in drinking water. Excess nitrogen in the atmosphere can produce pollutants such as ammonia and ozone, which can impair our ability to breathe, limit visibility and alter plant growth. When excess nitrogen comes back to earth from the atmosphere, it can harm the health of forests, soils and waterways.
Nitrogen and phosphorus are essential for the growth of algae and aquatic plants, which provide food and habitat for fish, shellfish, and smaller animals that live in water. When too much nitrogen and phosphorus enter the water it causes algae to grow faster than ecosystems can handle. This growth leads to harmful algal blooms, or HABs. Very large increases in algae harm water quality, the food resources, and habitats. HABs can also decrease the oxygen that fish and other aquatic life need to survive.
Continue reading ““Nobody Alive Has Seen Anything Like This” – Record Rains Have Big Downstream Impacts”Flood Emergency Still Worsening in Minnesota
So many blinking red signs of climate change in this report, but no mention of the “C” word.
Media continues to fail their viewers by omission.
Trump Doubles Down on Denial
Trump gives a scrambled version of several Climate Denial Crocks in the passage above.
On the day when the Trumpian Supreme Court delivered the Fossil Fuel industry’s fondest wish, he riffed on themes of climate and clean energy denial.
Below, a thoughtful as usual take on electric aviation.
More on Devastated Farmers in South Dakota
This farmer’s voice breaks as he describes the breadth of the damages on his family farm.
But I thought CO2 was good for plants?
Music Break: Chumbawamba- Tubthumping
OK. Back to work.