Climate Change? Nahhh ...

We have a local bridge just downriver from a dam. I have no idea how high it is, but it's high enough that multiple people have jumped off to commit suicide over the years.
My mom has a picture of my grandfather as a young man wearing a suit, tie, and hat standing on the rail with his hands in his pockets and the dam in the background. Every time I see it, I breathe a sigh of relief.

 

Could Air Someday Power Your Flight? Airlines Are Betting on It.

 

35 vintage photos taken by the EPA reveal what American cities looked like before pollution was regulated

 

Sandy Frazier has a good piece in the current NYRB.

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/09/grim-reapers-american-farming-ian-frazier/

We are eating a big hole in the middle of the Midwest and sucking up California’s ancient aquifers until the land collapses like an empty juice box. The awe that new arrivals from other countries feel when they see the bounty in a US supermarket is an illusion—more like what one might experience when stepping from a cold night into a nice, warm house where they’re burning the furniture. In short, we are plundering the natural sources of our food production and can’t go on this way.

 

The EPA only got in the way right before the private sector was going to clean all that up.

 

EPA's not needed. If a company's poisoning the environment, people will choose to not do business with that company. You know, the ones who survive anyway.

 

If you read far enough into this it will scare the living shit out of you.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/18/climate-change-glacier-antarctica/


When scientists tagged a curious seal, he led them to signs of a potential climate disaster

Basically, through sensors on seals and robots, scientists have discovered a number of warm currents that are not only melting and undermining glaciers but are tunneling into a huge canyon of underwater ice under the antarctic ice pack. If it continues to flow down into that and hollows it out, you're looking at a fifteen foot rise in sea level. Throw all the maps away at that point.

 

Sounds like Denman is providing at the moment a walrus's dream.

A tight seal.

 

Saw that. Oof.

But what will it mean to a hardworking family in Kansas?

is a question the well-meaning climate "moderate" will continue to ask as they slowly sink beneath the waves.

 

Will read later. I'd be interested in seeing what that change in sea level does to coastlines. Obviously something very significant, but just how significant?

 

Sea level rise viewer.

https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slr.html