Climate Change Journal entry July 18: “I can’t see the mountains this morning.” Smoke from the wildfires in Canada, a thousand miles from our farm, blocked the view of Crawford Mountain. The foot of that mountain is less than two miles away. The Earth is literally on fire. Even AI...
Some people wonder whether the climate crisis is real. Hasn’t Earth’s climate always changed? Yes, it has, and there are valid reasons why our climate has gone through periods of warming and cooling for millennia. We are now in a warming period, and this one is caused by an increase...
This Post Is Different It’s not about what we do on the farm, riparian buffers, or our comical journey with the electric car. It’s different because our country is in a whirlpool of negative chaos, and I’m down a couple of notches on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Forget about the...
Our Epic Journey to Renewable Energy Note: This was written by a real person–me. All pictures by me unless otherwise noted.
Some people wonder whether the climate crisis is real. Hasn’t Earth’s climate always changed? Yes, it has, and there are valid reasons why our climate has gone through periods of warming and cooling for millennia. We are now in a warming period, and this one is caused by an increase...
Note: The text from this post was published as an oped in the News-Leader on 6/22/21. On June 7 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) concentration had reached its highest level since accurate measurements began 63...
Five Dollars For a Ton of Carbon Stored in the Soil Humans have released more carbon from the depths of the earth and released it into the atmosphere than any event or epoch in history. More carbon dioxide is in the air now than at any time in the past...
Jeanne, the Princess of Swoope and I had the privilege of attending the League of Conservation Voters annual Capital Dinner on June 25th. It was held in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in the nation’s capital. We were there
There’s been a lot of news lately about extreme weather throughout the world; here in the U.S. the Huffington Post as well as other news sources reported that the past twelve-month period from July 2011 through June 2012 has been the hottest on record. In other news over half of...
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