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.
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...
Here is the earth as seen by astronauts many years ago on a voyage around the moon and back to earth. Although the earth wasn't as hot when they approached the moon on that day in 1968, the earth was on its way to getting hotter and hotter, and dangerously close to...
Letter to Senator Purdue: Please Do Not Support Trump's Bullying & the Paris Cancelation I received a reply to my recent letter to Georgia Senator David Purdue regarding the firing of James Comey from his position as F.B.I. Director. I was impressed with the...
