There is much more to climate change than carbon dioxide. Of all the molecules rising to cause stronger storms, longer droughts, more fires, pestilence, local extinctions, and sea level rising, global carbon is the easiest to measure as an indicator of overall planet health. The other greenhouse gasses, methane, nitrous oxides, and especially water vapor are more difficult to measure due to their dynamic, constantly shifting nature.
Global carbon dioxide levels are observed and recorded far from industries 11,000 feet above sea level at the Mauna Loa Observatory. Carbon dioxide rose steadily from 315 parts per million (ppm) in 1958…
There is hope for the bees when there’s clover in the lawn. Researchers discovered that lawns in Springfield Massachusetts when cut every three weeks instead of weekly resulted in as many as 2.5 times more lawn flowers, mostly clover and dandelions, and a great diversity of 93 species of bees.
Thursday, May 20 this the sixth annual World Bee Day. Celebrate bees by joining with others in pledging not to spread quick-release fertilizer, herbicides or pesticides on your lawn. Toxins must follow the applied nutrients because grass is developing an addiction, is thinner with less fiber, easy forage for pests…
Dougie MacLean's song is titled Until We Meet Again. It's a great closing song.
"Until we meet again, I wish you well
I hope your light shines easily
And until we meet again, it doesn't matter how we've done
On Athol side I'll see you further on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPhXCWcuqGI
You can't teach those who do not wish to learn. Well said. I do not think you hot-headed at all which is why I engage in word play with you. I mistook your painfully personal experiences with political positions, et al. for being the common complaint so often expressed by others about climate deniers in general. thanks for taking the time to explain situations. Of course you pick your battles, sometimes they're in your face, and wisely stay focused on "more productive endeavors." Bravo!
How do you feel when your tolerance runs out, exceeds its limits, and you choose intolerance?
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Bird feeders bring much joy and very much connect people, especially us living in more urban areas, with nature. Hummingbird feeders need to be carefully maintained so that the sugar water does not go bad, but bring much delight. You can combine bird feeding with local plants by planting shrubs or trees that have berries. Birds that do not come to a feeder for seed will perch on a branch for an old berry. Yesterday for the first time there was a downy woodpecker sitting on the feeder. Sparrows came and went while woodpecker looked up and down. Finally he grabbed a sunflower seed and flew off. I like to think the feeder helped that bird through a tough time.
Well said John. Perhaps we call ships she because the ocean is so masculine and it is all about relationships.
Methane hydrate, the so-called monster, lies beneath the sea floor. In sediments on the ocean bottom, microorganisms remove oxygen making conditions lower down anoxic. Here, methanogens produce methane that is trapped as the notorious gas hydrates.
In practice, rather than theory, there is a catastrophic difference between the increasing summer melt of Arctic Ocean sea ice and the thaw of methane hydrate down below.
Rob Moir
Rob Moir, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Ocean River Institute. He writes Clam Chowdah dot org blog and hosts Moir’s Environmental Dialogues iTalk radio.
