Climate Change? Nahhh ...

I’ll accept your larger point, but there are 95 counties.

 

Dammit! Forgot about that header row in my spreadsheet!

 

95 counties in Tennessee
67 counties in Alabama and Florida
82 counties in Mississippi
159 counties in Georgia
120 counties in Kentucky
55 counties in West Virginia
46 counties in South Carolina

This is what lives in the part of my brain that is supposed to hold instructions for socializing with people.

 

In Texas there are 254 counties, eight with populations of less than 1,000. The least populated county, Loving, affords its denizens an oh-so-cramped 13.2 square miles per-capita.

 

Gotta get to the county seat in your horse and buggy in less than a day. Very thoughtful planning.

 

On the Sporcle quiz where you had to name all 254 counties, guessing colors, founding fathers, colors combined with landmarks (like Red River), Texas heroes, and cities gets you about a third of the way there.

 

'Ghost forests' threaten New Jersey's water, ecosystem

 

Antarctica: A continent in crisis - Australian Geographic

"Most significantly, the continent is a key driver of the planet’s climate. A warming of waters around the continent in the Southern Ocean, for example, will slow ocean circulation globally and can drive extreme weather events, not only in its neighbouring continent of Australia, but also at the planet’s other end. Likewise, melting Antarctic ice will raise sea levels globally. And we’re not talking now about sea ice, but the massive Antarctic ice sheet that covers the continent.

At 14 million square kilometres in area and holding some 30 million cubic kilometres of fresh water – 30 per cent of the planet’s fresh water – it’s easy to comprehend how the melting of this massive ice block, Earth’s largest, would raise sea levels globally. And that’s exactly what appears to be happening.

The dynamics of this huge chunk of ice are complex. It grows with each winter snowfall and diminishes with summer melts. But surveys have now confirmed that the amount of bulk it’s losing outweighs the snowfall that replenishes it. Put simply, the Antarctic ice sheet is becoming thinner, and has been for several decades. The upshot of that, of course, is rising sea levels – globally."

 

I do like George West in Live Oak County. Sort of like Albert Lea and Carol Stream in town naming conventions.

 

How problematic is mineral mining for electric cars?

 

https://www.economist.com/china/202...uclear-reactors-faster-than-any-other-country

 

In college I worked fire watch at a nuke plant. Easy money but boring as hell.

There is lots of money poured into nuclear power but I don't know if there are either economic or ecological benefits, in view of the safety precautions and nuclear waste considerations. Maybe a wash at best.