Perspective: “No, asthma inhalers are not ‘choking the planet’”
Tag: climate
Interesting: a Twitter bot using live and historical data from a bunch of sensors hooked up to an oak tree…
Interesting: a Twitter bot using live and historical data from a bunch of sensors hooked up to an oak tree, to describe the impact of weather and climate from the tree’s point of view.
@awitnesstree@twitter.com
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tweeting-tree-climate-change
Freak summer hailstorm buries Guadalajara under five feet of ice
LA climate: what causes May Grays and June Gloom.
LA climate: what causes May Grays and June Gloom.
Growing weeds to capture carbon
Interesting: Some California farmers are deliberately growing weeds to capture carbon and add organic matter to the soil.
California Has Farmers Growing Weeds. Why? To Capture Carbon
It hit 93 degrees in LA this afternoon. We get November heat waves sometimes…
https://www.climatecentral.org/news/what-climate-experts-think-of-trumps-win-20860
It hit 93 degrees in LA this afternoon. We get November heat waves sometimes, yes, but globally 2016 is on track to be the hottest year on record, beating the record set *last year*. 2011-2015 has been the hottest 5-year period on record.
Trump has publicly called climate change a hoax and stated his intent to cut clean energy programs, reduce environmental regulations, increase use of coal, and back out of the Paris climate treaty. People who actually study climate are…not encouraged by this.
these “my weather is better than yours” sharepics going around bug me
As a lifelong Californian, these “my weather is better than yours” sharepics going around bug me. Not because it’s thumbing your nose, that’s just normal regional rivalry — but because we’re getting that “better weather” at the expense of the rain we normally get in winter, rain that we desperately need if we’re going to do things like grow food, fight seasonal wildfires, and, oh, I don’t know, drink. It’s like bragging about how warm you are while surrounded by fire.