Even at this point, what he said still startled me a little. The part if the climate fixing itself was especially unnerving. I know we should be immune to it by now but that one was weird enough to make an impact.

As I guess you know I live in hurricane country. Even here people don’t understand how hurricanes form and how they’re fueled. I’m sure more than half think god just stirs them up in heaven and tosses them across the ocean. Well, you know how it is.

Wait what did Trump say now?

He said bring back my thread!

That’s 3 cat 5’s in two weeks

This ain’t business as usual

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science...why-ncna935261

Climate change may be dissolving the ocean floor. Here's why we should be worried.

Dislike the click bait alarmist headline tbh

^ That's a worrying piece of news, and follows an alarmingly common pattern in environmental science these days: the discovery of new things we have screwed up.

Here's more bad news for an overheating planet, although this time, at least, we are blameless:-

South Pole Hotspot Causes Ice Sheet To Sag:- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46202255

How often do we think about what is under the Antarctic Ice Sheet? Probably not often in the course of a normal day, but if you have that kind of curiosity, you might enjoy a documentary on Antarctica's sub glacial lakes. There's one on Youtube, I think.

Are wildfires getting worse and more frequent? Here are two at-a-glance answers:-

i) This is what you can learn from America's official EPA website, which reports on nothing after 2015 as if a three-year delay before announcing statistics is normal. Of all things that are monitored, (from temperature, through economic indicators, to album of the year), who else but the EPA keeps monitoring but doesn't release the information?


ii) In comparison, The World Resources Institute focuses on Europe but are somehow capable of showing stats that go right up to June 2018. How very modern of them!

Five Graphs Show Just How Unusual This Year's Wildfires Are:- https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/08/5-g...-wildfires-are

Same as Mexico Beach one good thing about Camp Fire is a lot of exurbs where people shouldn’t live anyway is being destroyed.

The new US government report, The Fourth National Climate Assessment is full of bad news, I'm afraid. The bottom line seems to be that we are already suffering from the effects of global warming and it'll be getting worse. This is how CNN and the BBC are assessing the report:-


The White House's obvious hope of burying the report by releasing it over a national holiday weekend turns out to be more ironic than they imagined: a Black Friday indeed.