This Weather Event Will Be “The Most Destructive Ever!”
My lifelong dream is to get back to nature. I would particularly like to own a large ranch in the mountains out west or a huge tract of forest land in northern Wisconsin, maybe the UP of Michigan or...
View ArticleWater Woes
If you could pick one thing people have done to improve the health and comfort of everyone on the planet, it would have to be management of water resources. The instantaneous availability of clean,...
View ArticleGrowing all over the world
It is well known that human activities disrupt some of the normal or “natural” processes that occur around the earth and in the atmosphere. Various societies and small populations have suffered some...
View ArticleMan-made “drought”
Did you catch Tony’s blog post recently about the Aral Sea, or maybe it should be called the Aral Pond. I have written about it in the past as well. It is a perfect example of human influence on the...
View ArticleWhat is an emergency?
When I say the word “emergency”, what comes to mind? Something urgent? Something that is happening now that needs immediate action? People are in danger? The dictionary defines “emergency” as such: a...
View ArticleBad headlines again
Some of you might recall that I was recently distraught about poorly written headlines proclaiming “decades long drought” or “19 year-long drought” in the American West, particularly in the southwest....
View ArticleWhat are you worried about?
Does anyone remember the story about the Facebook chat-bots that developed their own mysterious version of English and then were shut down? It turns out that it was a pretty simple artificial...
View ArticleWe Need to Talk About Science
A general impression exists about how science works. Scientists speculate about how the world works. They conduct studies to confirm or refute their speculations. They report the results. They have...
View ArticleWhy does record cold still happen?
Just last month NOAA issued a press release indicating that July of 2019 was the warmest month on the planet in recorded history. This follows many other “warmest months” ever over the course of the...
View ArticleMore clickbait AGW headlines
You know that the “climate change” (anthropogenic global warming, or AGW) headlines are getting over-the-top when the head of the World Meteorological Organization has to come out and say that it is...
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