Particulate matter (PM) has become front and center because of the Canadian forest fires and wind patterns over the northeastern and middle Atlantic states. However, air quality alerts are as far south as Alabama and west to St. Louis. In this post, I use maps and images to provide information on how to understand air quality.
A few articles caught my attention this week. Kepler, education activists & atmospheric rivers are the topics. I’m not claiming that these are related, but I’ll try and make a case. In the next 3 days, you’ll find a post on each subject. You can follow the links to see what I read.
This post focuses on education and climate as seen by a teen living in Atlanta in the year 2051. I originally published it on April 21, 2012. Although a work of fiction, it is presented here as a reminder of the consequences of making decisions based on faulty reasoning and ignorance. I am re-publishing it today ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference being held in Glasgow, Scotland
The EPA released a climate report[4] in May 2021 that was hidden or delayed by the Trump administration. This was not surprising given the rebuke of science by Trump. The last time a climate report was released by the EPA was in 2016. The climate report, according to law, is published every four years. So, visiting the EPA climate change indicators page was refreshing. EPA scientists, who did the work three years earlier, finally had their work published and available to the American public. I recommend visiting this page which will provide you with interesting graphics and tools to give you an opportunity to learn how the indicators of climate change are analyzed and used to make predictions and foretell what we need to do to lessen the effect of climate change.
Climate change is an existential threat to the earth. We’ve known this for a long time. In 1896, the Swedish scientist, Svante Arrhenius published a report in which he said that the burning of fossil fuels will add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere resulting in higher...
For those of you cleaning out closets, desks and garages, you might find this story interesting. I found a manuscript that was “out of sight, out of mind” for 40 years. It was a marvelous discovery.
