All Things Environment

[cradleandshoot]

Climate Change must be real. I just saw the first Robin of spring grubbing in my front yard...

[PizzaSnake]

Climate Change must be real. I just saw the first Robin of spring grubbing in my front yard...

Non sequitur.

[PizzaSnake]

Big population to be facing this.

“Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.

Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.”

Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/25/clim ... index.html

[Typical Lax Dad]

Big population to be facing this.

“Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.

Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.”

Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/25/clim ... index.html

Gore may finally be in a position to make some money off of the climate change scare tactics.

[PizzaSnake]

Breathe deep, the gathering gloom…

“ Vast swaths of the continental US will be exposed to unhealthy, polluted air by 2054, according to an alarming new report.

Aerial view of an industrial plant, East St. Louis, Missouri
‘Safe’ air-quality levels in US, UK and EU still harmful for health, study says
Read more
Researchers at First Street Foundation, a non-profit that analyzes climate risk, found that one in four Americans are already exposed to air that is deemed “unhealthy” by the Air Quality Index (AQI), which provides daily air quality readings. That number is expected to grow by 50% in the next few decades, with an estimated total of 125 million Americans experiencing dangerous air pollution by the middle of the century .”

But hey, just slip back into your somnolence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... -americans

[jhu72]

Big population to be facing this.

“Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.

Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.”

Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/25/clim ... index.html

... Mexico City is looking like just one more canary.

[cradleandshoot]

Climate Change must be real. I just saw the first Robin of spring grubbing in my front yard...

Non sequitur.

Not if you like to chow down on grubs. If your a robin your loving this climate change thing.

[cradleandshoot]

Big population to be facing this.

“Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of nearly 22 million people and one of the world’s biggest cities, is facing a severe water crisis as a tangle of problems — including geography, chaotic urban development and leaky infrastructure — are compounded by the impacts of climate change.

Years of abnormally low rainfall, longer dry periods and high temperatures have added stress to a water system already straining to cope with increased demand. Authorities have been forced to introduce significant restrictions on the water pumped from reservoirs.”

Water shortages are not uncommon in this neighborhood, but this time feels different, Gomez said. “Right now, we are getting this hot weather. It’s even worse, things are more complicated.”

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/25/clim ... index.html

... Mexico City is looking like just one more canary.

Hey Doc, if your hemorrhoids flare up again can you blame it on climate change?

[PizzaSnake]

Forget People of the Corn. Now we are Polyethylene People.

Maybe Alabama can shed some light on this… You know, being such learned and erudite scientists.

“Microplastics have been found in every human placenta tested in a study, leaving the researchers worried about the potential health impacts on developing foetuses.

The scientists analysed 62 placental tissue samples and found the most common plastic detected was polyethylene, which is used to make plastic bags and bottles. A second study revealed microplastics in all 17 human arteries tested and suggested the particles may be linked to clogging of the blood vessels.”


https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... lth-impact

[Typical Lax Dad]

You are what you eat.

[cradleandshoot]

You are what you eat.

What about if you chew your fingernails down to the nubbins? Any nutritional value there?

[youthathletics]

You are what you eat.

What about if you chew your fingernails down to the nubbins? Any nutritional value there?

It's not even what you eat, but what you breath. https://www.earthday.org/the-invisible- ... %20breathe.

While in Korea, they barely concern themselves with the weather, they judge their day buy the Air Quality and if it is an inside day and mask. Those same issues present themselves on our west coast....where we can find trace material of pollution generated from the East.

https://www.earthday.org/the-invisible- ... %20breathe.

[MDlaxfan76]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/us/texas ... index.html

They should have raked those forests and scrubland...

[jhu72]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/us/texas ... index.html

They should have raked those forests and scrubland...

... photo looks like a scene from an aborted KKK meeting.

[PizzaSnake]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/us/texas ... index.html

They should have raked those forests and scrubland...

... photo looks like a scene from an aborted KKK meeting.

Don't they know that meetings are people too?

[PizzaSnake]

Thanks, Ronnie.

More and more of the poor, rural areas are slipping into failed state status.

But the Magats’ll fix it, right?

“Across the U.S., trillions of gallons of drinking water are lost every year, especially from decrepit systems in communities struggling with significant population loss and industrial decline that leave behind poorer residents, vacant neighborhoods and too-large water systems that are difficult to maintain.

Jackson, Mississippi, was already losing an estimated 65% of its water — including millions of gallons that had been gushing from broken pipes for years, turning some areas into wetlands — when the system almost collapsed in 2022, said Ted Henifin, the water system’s federally appointed third-party manager.”

https://apnews.com/article/water-loss-i ... 06f9305802

[youthathletics]

Uh oh.....https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... 922f&ei=28

Furthermore, Lamb and de Ronde suggest that their work “may have unlocked other mysteries, too,” because, they point out: “Subduction zones are also associated with explosive volcanic eruptions.”...

...“In the same volcanic region, underwater volcanoes are erupting an extremely rare type of lava called boninite. This is the closest modern example of a lava that was common in the early Earth,” they add.

[MDlaxfan76]

Uh oh.....https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... 922f&ei=28

Furthermore, Lamb and de Ronde suggest that their work “may have unlocked other mysteries, too,” because, they point out: “Subduction zones are also associated with explosive volcanic eruptions.”...

...“In the same volcanic region, underwater volcanoes are erupting an extremely rare type of lava called boninite. This is the closest modern example of a lava that was common in the early Earth,” they add.

why uh oh?

It's a novel theory, might be correct, might not be.
But beyond the scientific exploration of competing theories, what is the importance?

[youthathletics]

Uh oh.....https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... 922f&ei=28

Furthermore, Lamb and de Ronde suggest that their work “may have unlocked other mysteries, too,” because, they point out: “Subduction zones are also associated with explosive volcanic eruptions.”...

...“In the same volcanic region, underwater volcanoes are erupting an extremely rare type of lava called boninite. This is the closest modern example of a lava that was common in the early Earth,” they add.

why uh oh?

It's a novel theory, might be correct, might not be.
But beyond the scientific exploration of competing theories, what is the importance?

Heat rises...possibly, from the ocean floor. And volcanoes emit what?

[MDlaxfan76]

Uh oh.....https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... 922f&ei=28

Furthermore, Lamb and de Ronde suggest that their work “may have unlocked other mysteries, too,” because, they point out: “Subduction zones are also associated with explosive volcanic eruptions.”...

...“In the same volcanic region, underwater volcanoes are erupting an extremely rare type of lava called boninite. This is the closest modern example of a lava that was common in the early Earth,” they add.

why uh oh?

It's a novel theory, might be correct, might not be.
But beyond the scientific exploration of competing theories, what is the importance?

Heat rises...possibly, from the ocean floor. And volcanoes emit what?

ahhh, ok.

Yes, but are we seeing an unusual amount of such over the past 100 years? 200 years?

Answer, no, though our ability to measure has improved immensely.