The combines are early onto the wheat fields of Kansas this year. Accounts suggest they’re trying to salvage whatever they can from this year’s crop in regions hard hit by drought.
The worst droughts in decades are wilting wheat fields worldwide.
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Leftist Jab: Hack Pundit Of The Week: Bronwyn Eyre
I often wonder if newspapers aren’t better off publishing high school essays instead of paying columnists. The writing might suffer but the research would be much better.Case in point: Bronwyn Eyre’s new column in Saskatoon’s Star Phoenix focusing on c…
Continue reading350 or bust: Hug A Climate Scientist Today!
Today is officially “Hug a Climate Scientist Day”, a reminder that climate scientists are our friends! Don’t forget to do so, virtually, or in reality if you happen to have one as a neighbour or colleague. For years climate scientis…
Continue reading350 or bust: Analysis of Britain’s Shape After Sea Level Rise, Ken To Barbie “It’s Over”, And More News
It’s Friday, and I’m just wrapping up two very time-consuming work projects, which means I’m in the mood for some good news, and a good laugh – come to think of it, I’m always in the mood for those things. Anyway, here&#…
Continue reading350 or bust: Remember, We Shouldn’t Make Connections Between Climate Change And All The Extreme Weather Events We’ve Been Experiencing Lately
From an op-ed by Bill McKibben, author and founder of 350.org, narrated and illustrated by Stephen Thomson of Plomomedia.com: The transcript of the original article: “Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections. When you see pictures…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Built to crash: the coming economic tsunami
`Would you rather have a perfectly efficient system that, if hit by a pebble, would shatter? Or, would you rather have an adaptable system that may not give you the exact output you want, but can handle anything? According to Barry Lynn of the New Am…
Continue readingMind of Dan: Get the book: Climate Change Denial
Cross-posted from Irregular Climate John Cook, a regular contributor to the podcast and the mastermind behind SkepticalScience.com, along with Haydn Washington an environmental scientific have written the must read book: Climate Change Denial: Head in the sand: The book examines the phenomenon of climate change denial. It looks at the many techniques of literal denial, […]
Continue readingMind of Dan: Irregular Climate Episode 20: Dead trees make for good reading
On this episode: : Extreme weather, Wegman strikes again, conservative science vs liberal science, no science in science class, climategate still nothing to see here, blame Canada, self-debunking deniers tie themselves in knots, renewable energy and a book with John Cook, bad news from the melting arctic, and a bunch of foul-mouthed rapping climate scientists. […]
Continue readingMind of Dan: Wherein I agree with Marc Morano
Cross-posted from Irregular Climate We must not tolerate the same pathetic GW Bush strategy of accepting the alleged AGW science but rejecting so-called solutions -Marc Morano I am as surprised as anyone, but I actually agree with the above quote from Marc Morano. Of course not in the way Morano would like. No, he is […]
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Canada About to Lose 400,000 Sq. Kms.
A study released today warns that Canada will lose access to 400,000 sq. kms. of northern territory by 2050 and that’s due to global warming. The report by scientists at UCLA that a lot of northerners, dependent on ice roads for their survival, w…
Continue readingMind of Dan: Irregular Climate Episode 19: Fraking nukes
On this episode: The N word, don’t listen to the BEST, ozone denialism, unsafe safety, fracking gas, hot pink in the arctic, global warming earthquakes, and crazy in Texas. Irregular Climate is now accepting donations. Feedback is always appreciated. Subscribe in To irregular Climate: Related Posts (auto generated and almost random):Irregular Climate Episode 8 Irregular […]
Continue readingLate Friday Night Ode To … Right Wingers And Climate Change
Item 1 (emphasis added):Climate change: Rising waters threaten North Carolina
The sea that sculpted North Carolina’s coast, from its arc of barrier islands to the vast, nurturing sounds, is reshaping it once again.
Water is rising three times faster …
Continue readingPollution/Environment: Harper & Co. Talking The Talk …
… but still not walking the walk. Nothing new here, eh?
Well folks – here’s one more note added in proof (emphasis added):
Canada oil sands: Pollution monitoring is censured
A scientific panel has found Canada has "no system" for monitoring how Alberta’s oil sands projects may be polluting local waterways.
Academic reports found that extraction plants were sending toxins such as mercury a…
Continue readingengulfed and unglued
At some stages of your life you will deal with thingsand at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. Nigella Lawson How long does it take for things to overtake ones ability to cope? It seems that the weeks of smoke has sapped us of all ene…
Continue readingRun Salmon Run
The 610-kilometre Skeena River is one of the world’s longest undammed rivers, and is the second longest river in British Columbia. Unlike the Fraser, the Skeena has been spared widespread industrial development, and a large portion of the Skeena w…
Continue readingSmoke on the water…
Mcleese Lake somewhere in the smokeThere’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all. ~Robert OrbenAnd there is smoke in the air…man it is everywhere! With the home fires still a burning up t…
Continue readingwhere there is smoke…
“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.
It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” Albert Schweitzer
there is fir…
Continue readingPop The Stack: Time for Rex to Go
Ever since I cut Rex Murphy out of my life (see Goodbye Rex) it seems he’s been popping up more and more trying to get my attention back. I’ve been trying not to listen to him but today I gave in when I found this. I’m sure I could link directly to the CBC video, […]
womanatmile0.wordpress.com: Melting in Antarctica
Besides the poor title, “Global Worming” written by the YouTube poster, this is an interesting video on melting ice in Antarctica.
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