Climate: Great Salt Lake’s shrinkage not due to climate change
Today, as much as two-thirds of the potential river inflow never reaches the lake. Consequently, the lake is shrinking. However, it is not climate change, but human water use that’s…
EVs: What happens to one’s older gas car when replacing it with an EV?
Many of older used vehicles are now shipped to other countries. Buying an EV doesn't really reduce carbon emissions; it mostly moves them somewhere else.
Climate Follow up: A half century of climate apocalypse headlines that turned out to be wrong
Fascinating – take a look: 50 years of predictions that the climate apocalypse is nigh 2000: “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”: …within a few years winter…
Doomerism: “The Art of the Doomer”
Many people focus on negativity, gloom and doom. We see this in many communities, especially online: – those who talk about the economy are non-stop gloom and doom – those…
Climate, Education: “Portland schools without” air conditioning
Teachers tell KGW they have been documenting their temperature gauge for the past week and have seen it reach 83 to 87 degrees inside the classroom. Source: Portland schools without…
Climate oops: “Lab-grown meat could be 25 times worse for the climate than beef | New Scientist”
Analysis finds the carbon footprint of cultivated meat is likely to be higher than beef if current production methods are scaled up because they are still highly energy-intensive Source: Lab-grown…
Climate: Portland to create “Zero emissions” downtown core
No one goes to downtown Portland anyway as its been taken over by crime and homeless: Portland officials plan to announce a new pilot project that would restrict a 16-block…
Follow up: “San Francisco – the City That Waits to Die”
The title is the name of a 1971 PBS documentary speculating about a future large earthquake in San Francisco. Long before global warming, the media needed a scary headline based…
Follow up: Lake Mead is going to largely die within 2 years
March 24, 2023 Lake Mead’s water would continue to decline Would fall to Tier 2B in 2024 Would fall to Tier 3 shortage in 2025, necessitating mandatory water cuts to…
Climate: Climate change might be caused by heat storage/release in ocean depths
Rapid Climate Change and Conditional Instability of the Glacial Deep Ocean from the Thermobaric Effect and Geothermal Heating AbstractPrevious results from deep-sea pore fluid data demonstrate that the glacial deep…