The Largest Ozone Hole Ever Recorded Over North Pole Has Finally ‘Healed Itself’ and Closed
"COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns probably had nothing to do with this."
"COVID-19 and the associated lockdowns probably had nothing to do with this."
"History shows that the most effective way to protect the environment is via a system of private property rights and free markets. Private property owners are better stewards of the environment than are government bureaucrats because private property owners have greater incentives to maintain the value of their property. This is why the greatest pollution in history was in the communist countries of the 20th century."
"Hydrogen and oxygen react in simple fuel cells to create power, and a very simple and useful end pollutant – water. Nothing else. Fuel cells are a brilliant, simple and clean tech – but at the moment come out massively more expensive than lithium batteries."
"...things are likely to get even crazier in the months ahead."
"Let us hope that the containment measures being taken in China and elsewhere will help, but at this point the number of cases just continues to escalate."
"When Mark Carney, a central banker, is showing us maps of Florida before and after a 9 foot rise in global sea levels, the whole climate change narrative hasn’t just jumped the shark, it’s carved it up and served it for dinner."
A single locust swarm in Kenya measured 2,400 sq km!
They come in the night: Drones — lots of them — flying in precise formations over the Colorado and Nebraska prairie. Why are they there?
"After our daughter of fifteen years of age was moved to tears by the speech of Greta Thunberg at the UN the other day, she became angry with our generation “who had been doing nothing for thirty years.”
SCOTLAND is forecast the coldest winter for 10 years – with -13C lows, snow, ice and travel woes, with a weak sun and Arctic chills blamed.
Beyond that, we had better hope that we have not entered another “Maunder Minimum”, because right now we are struggling to feed everyone on the planet even in the best of years.
According to the latest USDA Crop Progress Report just 41 percent of all U.S. corn has been harvested so far.
It is being reported that more than 20 million California residents are potentially in danger from the wildfires at this moment. Nobody knows exactly where the current fires are heading next, and nobody knows exactly where the next fires will start.
The sunniest city on Earth is Yuma, Arizona in the U.S. As the driest city in the U.S., Yuma receives less than 200 millimeters (8 inches) of rainfall and endures roughly 100 days of 40°C (104°F) weather every year. Yuma lies between the Gila and Colorado rivers, in a lush region that produces almost 90% of leafy vegetables grown in the U.S.
Another extreme wind event is in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Have you noticed how all the birds are vanishing? When was the last time you woke to a din of sparrows over the rooftops or the dawn chorus ? Do you think prairie farming has any benefits except for Sainsburys or Waitrose?
The Journal writers explained that, “The cold weather is a big threat to vulnerable crops. Only 22% of corn in North Dakota was mature as of Oct. 7, and 36% in South Dakota. In the 18 biggest corn-producing states, 58% of this year’s crop was mature, versus an average of 85% by that date over the previous five years, according to the USDA.
“I’m expecting massive crop losses – as devastating as we’ve ever seen,” said Jon Nelson, a state lawmaker who farms several hundred acres near Rugby in north-central North Dakota.
In this day and age, our screens have become our friends. We spend countless hours with our televisions, our phones and our computers. Meanwhile, many of us don’t have any idea how the people living right next door are doing.
Many farmers continue to wait on the sidelines to get into the fields. With freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall, and high winds set to hit the northern Plains this week, the corn in North Dakota is only 22% mature vs. a 75% five-year average, according to Monday’s USDA Crop Progress Report.
‘Young people are telling us that BP sponsorship is putting a barrier between them and their wish to engage with the RSC,’ said a spokesperson. The pomposity of this might be funny if it weren’t that BP has subsidised their £5 ticket scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds for eight years, allowing 80,000 young people to see RSC performances at reduced rates.
Do unions support the principle of all students being able to skip class to attend a protest on any issue? Or just on political issues where the union leaders happen to agree with them?
If ocean temperatures rise high enough, millions of fish will perish, and that will put even more stress on our increasingly strained global food supply.
According to the US National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Dorian, which has devastated parts of the Bahamas, continues to pose a serious danger as it works its way north off the eastern seaboard of the United States.