Exploratory

We are now in November so the hurricanes and tropical storms should start really dissipating but, somehow, with those really warm waters out there – parts of the Caribbean is around the mid-80s, warm enough for hurricane fuel – I don’t feel like we can breathe a sigh of relief. I think about Otis on…

I wanted to add this news topic in my last post but then thought I needed to learn more to understand the new findings better. Here’s the link to the article with the provocative title that caught my eye: “Humans nearly went extinct 800,000 years ago”. Here’s another article that provides a little more scientific…

“Climate change is a hoax!” That was belted out by one of the Republican presidential candidates, Vivek Ramaswamy. Of course, for those in the know, he is also behind the effort to bring corporations back to the Milton Friedman doctrine of profits only and shareholder primacy. He has been pushing hard against ESG and “woke”….

“The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.” António Guterres, UN Chief They say this summer could be the coolest summer going forward. If you want to read the article with that dramatic quote, you can find it here. Ummm, that’s pretty dramatic. I believed he said that during…

I know that I keep writing about the weather, but the news just keeps bringing forth all of the records being broken, the extreme weather hitting everywhere, those multiple heat domes hanging over the Western US, Europe and India/China, and the waters off of Florida hitting the high 90’s. Today, it supposedly hit 100 or…

The summer of extreme weather continues. The news is constant about the extreme weather we are experiencing: hottest month of June ever, hottest July 3rd or 4th ever, extreme fires in Canada and the resultant smoke in the northeast and Midwest, and the extreme flooding up in the northeast, especially Vermont. Normally the extreme flooding…